Time Spent on Social Networking in U.S. increases by 83 Percent; Facebook Leads, top 10 sites' list revealedJune 4th, 2009 Social networking is getting hotter and hotter in US. Ultimately its bulging into a war of social sites, where each site is looking to hook their visitor for maximum hours.
Facebook to shut down Beacon tracking tool as part of class-action settlementSeptember 21st, 2009 Facebook shuts down thorny marketing toolNEW YORK — Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its five-year history. The social network says it will shut down Beacon, a program that tracks users' activities on other Web sites.
Loch Ness Monster 'spotted' on Google Earth!August 26th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit man claims that he spotted the Loch Ness Monster on Google Earth. The Loch Ness Monster is a creature believed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.
Infosys' Murthy pulls back as IT advisor to Sri Lanka presidentFebruary 17th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy has declined to be the IT advisor to the Sri Lankan government, the IT bellwether said Wednesday.
Facebook grows, makes a profitSeptember 15th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook, the world's largest social network on the internet, is finally turning a profit, the privately held company said. The Silicon Valley, California, company, which was started six years ago by a student at Harvard University, said late Tuesday that it had reached a positive cash flow for the first time and also passed the 300-million user mark.
Facebook tops 10 most popular online brands poll in the UKMay 13th, 2009 LONDON - A survey on the most popular online brands in the UK has revealed that Facebook tops that chart, accounting for 13 per cent of all UK internet time last month. As per Nielsen Online, which tracked the top 10 most popular online brands, this equated to the UK users spending one in every eight minutes on the site.
Facebook picks former Genentech finance chief David Ebersman as CFOJune 29th, 2009 Facebook picks David Ebersman as new CFONEW YORK — David Ebersman, a former executive at biotech firm Genentech, was named Monday as Facebook's chief financial officer. Ebersman, 39, will formally start at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based online hangout in September.
Centuries-old tweets? Historians to post John Quincy Adams' brief diary entries on TwitterAugust 4th, 2009 John Quincy Adams tweeting thanks to Mass. societyBOSTON — It seems John Quincy Adams was way ahead of his time.
Cyber attacks on US, S. Korea aimed at registering protest: ExpertsJuly 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The latest cyber attacks against South Korean and American websites are more intended at venting anger than causing damage. The attacks on Estonia and South Korea, for instance, might best be thought of as the 21st-century equivalent of banging a shoe at the United Nations.
5 FaceBook Source Code SecretsAugust 15th, 2007 I glanced over the Facebook source code for both index and search pages. As an enterprise developer of some experience, source code is always interesting to me as it provides an insight into the health of a company.
Facebook to give its core access to developersApril 27th, 2009 The most popular social networking site on a global scale, Facebook is trying to welcome developers by keeping some of the core floodgates open so that they get familiar with the system in a better way. If you remember well, most of the recent changes in Facebook has brought about agitation from the Facebook crowd.
My First Facebook SpamDecember 27th, 2007 My first Facebook spam:
Subject: Mi Chai invited you to join the group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!"... Mi invited you to join the Facebook group "I'M A CHRISTIAN..AND I'M PROUD TO SAY IT!!".
Facebook Turns to Real Time Web InteractivityMarch 5th, 2009 After it's failed attempts to acquire Twitter, Facebook has come up with new strategies. It has incurred a number of changes to the homepage/newsfeed.
Facebook Loses Weight; Turns to Facebook LiteAugust 13th, 2009 If MySpace can have a Lite View Version why not Facebook? In a bid to take on its arch-rival, the Social networking giant rolled out a slimmer version of its web site to the test audience. Facebook Lite is the new face of Facebook targeted at narrowband users.
NKorea has set up Cyber warfare unit to wage a hacking war against US and SKorea!May 5th, 2009 Report: NKorea operating cyber warfare unitSEOUL, South Korea — North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news report said Tuesday.