Social Media

Social Networking website Facebook is going to face its first true competitor from next month. An open source based Diaspora, with similar look and feel as Facebook but devoid of the confusing privacy policies , has set a launch date as sometime next month. The new Social Networking player has opened up first code to developers to set a stage for any technically qualified developers to join them in order to built path breaking social networking website.

Social Media Industry is witnessing rapid growth and changes in last few months. Be it Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft or Gmail, everyone is adding new features to have close bound with their users. Now its Twitter which is rolling out few new features that, among other pre-announced features, will allow users to embed Video, pictures and map at very first time.

According to Twitter co-founder Evan William, Twitter has crossed the milestones of 145 million registered users and more people are using the micro blogging website service through their mobile phones now. In a post at Twitter Blog, William said that third party developers has emerged as one of the top supporter of Twitter apps and 300,000+ apps are giving strength to twitter service to make it one of the most successful micro-blogging website across the globe.

Larry would be going through the sleepless nights these days for sure. Internet Giant Google's social networking website Orkut has lost yet another turf to the surge of Facebook. India stands among very few countries where Orkut is still a champion in social networking despite of hard selling by other competitors like ibibo, Facebook.com, Fropper & Twitter. But now anymore.

The Social media industry has a new agenda, that of scaling up to next generation computation. The nature of the industry itself implies that a relatively small number of players control the global social networking eco system and this is leading to a vigorous battle on this front.. Google has been pinched by the core due to enormous rise of Facebook and company barely has anything in hand which can encounter such situation, besides being just a spectator; atleast for now.

With growing interest and viewers, Online Video Industry is constantly making its mark in Internet era. However, Online video publishing websites like YouTube, Vimeo has been flooded with millions of Videos and its has become very tedious to find out 'best of Videos' at any given time. Analyzing this scenario, YouTube, an online video publisher, has launched "Charts" which ranks "Top Web Videos" to promises to deliver only the best.

Facebook has decided to implement a new feature in it's addictive social networking site called “Places” which allows FB users to share their locations with friends & relatives. With this, the company has extended its reach into the real world from the virtual one at a time when there is significant concerns about privacy, which caught it in the wrong foot. Facebook however. expects acceleration in sales ad revenue with Places.

Google always was a passionate player in any part of the game no matter whether it’s a TV or online Games. To stamp speculations, Google has revealed its Big Plans behind its upcoming “Crome Web Store” at GDC Europe. With this announcement its has been clear that company is in no mood to provide an easy path way to biggest competitors Facebook and Apple.

Facebook has just confirmed that it is on verged of rolling new Facebook ‘Like’ button which is getting display all over the web these days. Most of the websites, blogs, articles and news portals are using ‘Like” button to increase popularity of their content across the web. Company assured that the new variations of the Like button to make it more seamless for people to like content and share it with their friends

Assume you want to go for lunch but not alone. You can check within your company who can join you. But how ? Exactly the similar situation faced by a Sr Executive in LG CNS Co, a Korean IT firm, when he wanted to have few partner for lunch. He just logged in to Twitter account and tweeted but only to employees within his technology-services firm. "Only within his firm ? "- Really Amazing !!!