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Facebook to Launch ‘Facebook Lite’ Service

August 12, 2009
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Facebook to Launch ‘Facebook Lite’ Service

Facebook is clearly looking to expand the boundaries of their services. Just a few days ago they acquired Friendfeed, and now it has been reported that they have begun testing a new service of theirs- Facebook Lite. As the name suggests, it is a stripped down version of full Facebook- a faster, simpler version....

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Facebook purchase social media giant Friendfeed

August 11, 2009
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Facebook purchase social media giant Friendfeed

Facebook have shocked the world by acquiring feed aggregators Friendfeed and also hiring the social networking sites four founders to important positions inside the newly purchased company. The four founders of Friendfeed were ex-google staff Paul Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Jim Norris and Bret Taylor. Most notably, Buchheit was the mastermind behind creating gmail, launching...

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Should Twitter be confined to the marketing department?

May 25, 2009
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Should Twitter be confined to the marketing department?

“Twitter is a unique social network that offers several potential applications for a company’s marketing strategy.” Twitter, the microblogging social network, has become the favourite of celebrities and the tech-savvy. Businesses worried about left behind are experimenting with this service, in order to promote themselves. However, if done badly, the effect could be embarrasing....

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Apple in negotiations to buy Twitter for $700 million

May 6, 2009
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Apple in negotiations to buy Twitter for $700 million

Apple are reportedly in talks with Twitter for a potential sale the social networking site for $700 million. Valleywag, the digital media blog, claims to have contact with an inside source at Apple, who is reporting that a deal is close, and that the acquisition could be completed by 8th June. Apple is going...

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60% of Twitter users leave after 1 month

April 30, 2009
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60% of Twitter users leave after 1 month

According to analysts, research has suggested that more than 60% of Twitter users stop using the social network within 30 days, most of whom use it for commercial gain. As you can see from the above graph, at this moment in time Twitter has a retention rate of 40% demonstrating that over 60% quit...

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Facebook’s Site Governance Vote, was it an unfair poll?

April 21, 2009
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Facebook’s Site Governance Vote, was it an unfair poll?

In late February when Facebook declared that it was going to produce its own site governance to user poll, Facebook CEO said this action was a unprecedented effort to enable participation on the web. Now, can you stand here and say you believe that? I thought you might not. To support this theory, huge...

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Facebook can influence studies

April 17, 2009
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Facebook can influence studies

The Massive Social-Networking has impacted the student world, for the worse I know I do it but well something needs to be done. Every student who has a facebook, is always whilst doing homework, it is the worst distraction there is. There are so many options when you are on Facebook that you can’t...

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Twitter prove their worth, 9.3 million visits in March, not bad

April 15, 2009
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Twitter prove their worth, 9.3 million visits in March, not bad

ComScore Incorporated, the marketing research company, announced today Twitter’s statistics for March. Comscore estimates an 131% increase in unique visits to a staggering 9.3 million visits, making the comparison between February stats and March Stats. Don’t forget this is just the stats for U.S visitors think about what the Twitter worldwide statistics could be....

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Twitter users and Mikeyy Worm collide on Easter

April 13, 2009
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Twitter users and Mikeyy Worm collide on Easter

Twitter has fallen victim to the Mikeyy Worm for the fourth time. The Popular Social Networking site, Twitter, has been struck by more protection schemes over the last couple days. Surprisingly, this time the worm acted differently as its aim this time was just to have some and mess about instead of more serious...

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FriendFeed updates as social networking services keep on rising

April 13, 2009
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FriendFeed updates as social networking services keep on rising

   Futuristic Design attracts much attention FriendFeed offers a different kind of service to its customers. As well as posting updates like Twitter and Facebook allow you to do, it also  is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from other micro-blogging services.  People do not really pay much attention to FriendFeed until now even though it...

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