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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...