Almost all we know that Facebook is popular, but how popular this social networking site is, well, only its boss can tell you right. However, recent post on its Facebook blog by its founder Mark Zuckerberg suggests that now 250million users are going to connect the site. Some cool animation has also been developed by the site to give a precise global Facebook connection from various parts of the world.
The animation shows that the social networking site has become a global community now which has 250million users worldwide. It’s often difficult to believe that the site was started as a spinoff of a social website Facemash which owned by Harvard University.
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Digg was once a hot social networking news website, but now the charm is fading quite fast, and now it has become the middle child for a large number of web 2.0 companies.
Reckoning Twitter as their new darling. Now as the pains and troubles are increasing for the site, the more efforts are being put from its executive to promote the site in a real aggressive manner. It seems that they don’t want to leave any stone unturned and willing to go through fire and water to win more and more users and gain the lost glory.
Jay Adelson, the CEO of the social networking site says that the overhauling of the site will create a rich and better experience for its over 36m current users, and the new features will also prove a great attraction for the new users.
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Google is considering firing a shot on software giant Microsoft as the search giant is going to unveil its own operating system quite soon. According to some analyst this move from Google will escalate their battle further onto internet turf.
Google says that their Chrome OS will be ready to be the part of a large number of PCs by the end of next year and users will definitely feel a difference in this new operating system. The Chrome OS is being claimed a light weight operating system that has been specifically tailored for cloud computing that is a trend of offering applications as online services.
According to Google, Chrome OS will be an ideal choice for light-weight and low-cost netbooks that are emerging as a growing segment of computer markets in many parts of the world.
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These days AOL seems to put all its focus on spinning off from Time Warner Inc. Though these guys are reviewing their assets to divest or sell, it’s quite evident that they will keep their social networking site Bebo, as company’s CEO Tim Armstrong has confirmed.
AOL boss Tim Armstrong has told Reuters that their social networking site is still highly valuable for them, and they are looking ahead for further improvement in it. The social networking site is going to move to AOL’s Ventures unit for further development, and this very moved has caused some speculation about the selling of the site which is lagging behind in popularity from some other social networking sites like twitter and Facebook.
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US District Judge George Wu acquitted a Missouri mother Lori Drew for her role in a MySpace hoax on Thursday. This MySpace hoax became the cause of a 13-year-old girl’s suicide in Lori’s neighbor.
George Wu said that Lori Drew was being acquitted for wrong counts of accessing computers without authority, but at the same time the ruling would be tentative as long as something it is not issued by him in written form.
Lori didn’t show any reaction to that decision. It was back in November when she was convicted and according to the judge if she is found guilty of doing this, everyone who violates the terms of the social networking site to be reckoned as a guilty of an offense and this is the thing which is quite unconstitutional and also needed to be addressed through new legislation in this connection.
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Twitter Search for Flickr photographs
A new feature, which will allow users to post Flicker photos on their Twitter accounts, has just been unleashed by Yahoo.
You need to enable Flicker as an approved application for this new Twitter2Flicker feature with which you can tweet under your username.
After doing this, you have to click on the link above the photo in which you are given an option to tweet it. This tweet appears in the shortened URL of flic.kr.
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The expected executive director of the Book Right Registry has said in an interview that the internet giant’s involvement in the publishing industry would help to transform it utterly and it would be the decisive for it as well.
Micheal Healy to be given the responsibility for finding copyright holders and authors and share the income that the internet giant wants to arise through this plan.
Recently in an interview with the Copyright Clearance Centre, he has said that with this new plan, every public library will turn into a high class research library with these new plans and people will definitely see its revolutionary character.
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The UKL government is considering taking some serious action to curb illegal file sharing. According to a report, nearly one out of every ten people consume online media illegally, and considering this, the UK government is developing some new plans to stop illegal file sharing.
A survey, conducted by the Futuresource Consulting survey that included nearly 2500 people in different countries as France, Germany, UK, and the US noted that nearly 8% people admitted illegal downloading.
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Twitter has been seen in the limelight for the last six months, and with its nice funded startup, these guys have accumulated around $55m from many different angels as well as from VCs. The microblogging site has become a new destination for a large number of social networking migrants. So, this dramatic increase is not limited just to its growing popularity, but it also relates to the number of applications and other startups that relate to it.
It’s true that there are not enough venture-funded or angel startups or apps, but it is also a fact that some notable investments have been made in various sort of startups that have emerged as the initial predicator on the site. At present, nearly $23.27m have been attained so far with 11 different startups of the site and most of them are from venture capital firms as well as from angel investors.
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Google seems to leave no stone unturned to provide its users an online Library of Alexandria. Though the company is best equipped and quite determine to digitalize each and every book of the world, there are some big hurdles which frequently hampering its way. What the company is going to do next much depends on Justice Department decisions, publishers and authors of the books.
The search giant can’t be accused of any lack in its ambition in this connection, as for the past many years the search project of the company is on their top priority, but it is also a project full of hurdles and bumps and most of these problems do not relate only to index, scan or display millions of books online, the main problems relate to legal concerns and intellectual property of these books.
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