Twitter
Twitter Surpasses MySpace with 96 Million Unique Visitors [Analysis]
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The new piece of information is surely going to excite the Twitter management, specially to company’s Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo who is going to address several news conferences and seminars in coming days – Twitter has managed to cross over MySpace, one time highly appreciated social networking web portal, in terms of monthly unique visitors last month.
Social Media
Diaspora: An Alternative to Facebook – Set to Breakout Next Month
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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.
Microsoft
Windows Phone 7 Ready to Launch by October
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The Development of Microsoft's much awaited Windows Phone 7 has final completed. The mobile OS is ready to release to manufacturing (RTM) stage, as said by company today. However there is no official date has not been announced yet, sources claims that Windows Phone 7 can be available for real testers (end users) as soon as in coming October, which will set the destiny of the much ambitious phone from company.
Facebook
Facebook Overtakes Orkut in India – Another Setback for Google
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.
Google
Search Results Preview While You Type : Google Tests a New Feature
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How far can you go when your product is almost reaching to its saturation level ? That's exactly Google is trying to do these days. In order to compete with Facebook & Twitter, which are slowly covering up Google's source of revenue from ads, Google is trying to produce better way of search results display. Company is trying to flunk the traditional way of search results by testing a feature that displays live-updating search results as you type your search query, no keystroke on “Enter” or “Return” required.
Facebook
Race For The “Places”: Goggle vs. Facebook vs. Twitter
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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.
Facebook
Facebook Places: Feature to Know Your Friends’ Location
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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
Google to Launch Chrome Web Store: An Emerging Threat for Apple’s & Facebook’s Dominance
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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
A New “Like” Button from Facebook : Much Informative, Much Sexier !
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
Facebook
Google Targets Facebook’s Apps. Acquires Slide Inc
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It seems Google is closing corners to launch its social networking initiative - Google Me, a Facebook competitor. With its latest move - acquisition of Slide Inc, a social widget makes, clearly indicates the head path of the company. Slide Inc develops applications and virtual goods for Facebook, MySpace and other websites.
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