Michael Jackson death: Twitter once again dominates MSM
Mainstream media once again lost out to social networking services like Twitter and Facebook to spread the news about the dead of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson is one of the most loved musicians in the world and it was pretty visible on Twitter streams.
As soon as [...]
Google’s Greg Badros is the new Director of Engineering of Facebook
Google has lost yet another senior executive, this time to social networking giant Facebook.
Facebook has hired Greg Badros as their new Director of Engineering.
He was previously with Google.
He was part of the original Google AdSense engineering team. He has also worked on their [...]
Grady Burnett latest to leave Google. Joins Facebook
Grady Burnett is the latest high profile Google employee who is leaving the search engine giant to join a rival company.
He was the head of Google’s AdWords division. He is now joining social networking service Facebook.
He would now responsible for Facebook’s online advertising sales.
These advertising revenues are one [...]
Google sees Facebook as a rival in search!
Google has been dominating the search engine market for a long time now.
Both Microsoft and Yahoo have failed to provide enough challenge.
However, social networking is changing the market scenario and Google has admitted that Facebook is turning into a major rival in the search engine segment.
Google said [...]
Digital Sky Technologies wants to invest in Facebook
Wall Street Journal has reported that Russian Internet group, Digital Sky Technologies has shown interest in investing in the world’s most popular social networking service Facebook.
The deal offered by Digital Sky puts the value of Facebook at around USD 10 billion.
Facebook declined to comment on the rumours. A [...]
HP MediaSmart Server LX195 launched
US based PC maker Hewlett Packard has launched their latest Windows Home server product MediaSmart Server LX195.
This new model is slimmer and better looking compared to the existing models available in the market.
HP said that this is their first such product to be powered with an Intel Atom processor.
Intel [...]
Facebook provides more power to third party developers
Facebook continues to open up their platform to provide more powers to third party developers as they compete with rivals like MySpace and even Twitter.
The social networking giant is now enabling developers to access user’s news streams.
This would enable users to access their data outside the Facebook [...]
US Army is now on Facebook and Twitter
US Army has announced the establishment of their Online Social Media Division.
They have created a fan page on Facebook social networking service and are also now present on the Twitter micro-blogging site.
US Army spokeswoman Lindy Kyzer spoke about the new developments: “Young people today don’t watch the [...]
Owen Van Natta to be the new CEO of MySpace
MySpace is getting a new CEO.
News Corp has announced that they are appointing Owen Van Natta as the new CEO of the MySpace.
Incidentally, Owen Van Natta was previously with Facebook which is the prime rival of MySpace in the social networking industry.
Facebook overtook [...]
Facebook now has 200 million registered users
Social networking giant Facebook has revealed that they now are home to more than 200 million registered users.
The growth is phenomenal as they have managed to double the registered users in just eight months.
Incidentally, Facebook now has more members than population of countries like Brazil and Japan. [...]
