The Silicon Valley start-up Vysr has announced a service that will make OpenSocial applications genuinely portable on their product, RoamAbout.
RoamAbout is available for Internet Explorer and FireFox browsers as an extension. Now, users will be able to run social applications of their choice on any website they want and also be connected to the friends’ […]

Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, co-founders of Current.tv, were present at the first ‘HACK THE DEBATE’ event. Current.tv is a cable television network with a presence on the web as well. They have tied up services with Twitter so that Twitter updates are provided in real time, during the presidential debates’ broadcast on Current. This […]

Hitwise has reported that Facebook’s share in the visits to social networking space in the US has increased by a staggering 50%. That being said, it should also be mentioned that MySpace is still leading on the top with a share of 67.54%, while Facebook is second at a much lesser 20.56%. Another thing to […]

Paramount Pictures and Facebook have tied up for the promotion of one of their products. The new movie of Paramount Pictures has its story based on Toby Young’s autobiographical book in which a young, promising journalist goes out of London and works for one of New York’s prestigious magazines. But the character fails at making […]

At the Safer Internet Forum that happened in Luxembourg, Viviane Reding, the Information Society and Media Commissioner argued that the European industry can benefit from social networking websites since they can boost productivity and also internal communication in the industry.
Reding said, “The result is that clients are for the first time truly engaged in a […]

The highly controversial system that monitors users’ web browsing habits with an apparent intention of better target ads, albeit without the consent of those involved, has been appearing in news since last summer. However, City of London Police officials have stated that there will not be any formal investigation of the firm BT over its […]

MySpace has just launched an online music store. It will allow its US users to tune in for no charge, but they will pay for downloads.
The ad-funded service allows MySpace members to listen to streamed audio tracks on their computers absolutely free. They will be allowed to build up extensive playlists of their favourite music […]

The first phone using Google’s Android operating system has been launched. There has already been a lot of buzz built up around it and some unconfirmed stories as well. For instance, some Android partners are claiming that the software will be used more widely than just the mobile phones. The rumour is that more internet-connected […]

Microsoft has decided that Windows 7 will not include built-in programs for email, movie making and photo editing as was the case with Windows Vista.
The firm included Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker as part of Vista. Later, it chose to offer separate downloadable Windows Live programs that basically replaced […]

Intel has invested in Telligent Systems, a social computing solutions firm. Telligent Systems provide social computing services and also intelligence tools for businesses. This announcement from Intel has come the day after the revamp of their vPro virtualisation platform, in which they added some modifications such as the reduction of response time as well as […]

About a year or so ago, Yahoo Search came up with a music artist shortcut. The idea was to make it more convenient for their users to get details about artists like videos, sample song tracks, photos, and their official website links - directly from the relevant search results page.
They have now rolled out some […]

Cisco Systems is strengthening its integrated communications and partnership portfolio with the buyout of a corporate instant-messaging company. It has announced its decision to purchase Jabber, which uses an open-source IM and presence protocol that is used by Google Talk and Gizmo. However, it declined to divulge any kind of financial details.
The Jabber technology […]

According to analyst house, Gartner, there are many tech managers who take part in social networking projects without even knowing what they want to achieve from them. They said that almost thirty percent of business-focused social communities are known to take part in activities that do not provide much value to their business. Gartner has […]

New York Times has launched its new social networking initiative called TimesPeople. The cleverly designed social networking site targets the NYTimes.com readers. Apparently the whole concept started as a Firefox plug-in which has now been modeled as a social networking site. In its public beta version TimesPeople enables users to save and recommend videos, articles, […]

Tribesmart, a UK-based social shopping service, was recently launched. The ingeniously designed website is aesthetically pleasing and offers a wide spread of products. The site is easy to operate and navigates with a traditional layout. The main attraction is its design, and obviously the products.
The best part of this website is that it is far […]

Yahoo is on the verge of a makeover, and randomly chosen visitors from the UK, US and France will help the web giant re-design its main page. These lucky few will give Yahoo feedback regarding the presentation of information and applications to its users. Yahoo boasts of having 300 million visitors a month, and the […]

MTV Networks has just acquired the remaining portion of ‘Social Project’. However, the terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Previously, MTV Network was a minority stakeholder in Social Project, the company that is behind the Flux social networking platform, powering many of its websites, including MTV.com, ColbertNation.com and TheDailyShow.com.
Social Project competes with Ning and […]

Google’s new android phone is following a different path from that of Apple iPhone in certain crucial aspects, notably volume growth. It might not replicate the latter’s early successes. Sales expectations are much lower for Android because it is being carried by T-Mobile USA that has about 30 million subscribers in comparison to Apple’s iPhone […]

Amazon is selling a no-hassle, cross-platform service for streaming movies and TV shows. Amazon.com recently launched Amazon Video On Demand which is a digital video service allowing customers to watch ad-free movies and TV shows. The best part is that it’s on their browser. Prior to this customers had to download them.
Amazon aims to offer […]

Google is to change its current policy on adverts related to abortion after a legal challenge made by a Christian pressure group. It had refused an advert by Christian Institute, stating it did not permit the advertising of those websites carrying ‘abortion and religion-related content.’ The institute then threatened to employ British equality legal provisions […]