social media

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.

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.

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.

Online Social Networking has had a significant impact on the lives of people by and large. It has transformed the way we connect and has propelled baby faced geeks like Mark Zuckerberg to the billionaires club. As we get used to this paradigm shifting movement, it is time to ask the following profound question :