Social networking
Web-based social networking services provide ways for people to find, connect and interact with other online as well as typically providing tools for online communities of interest to communicate. Having grown tremendously over the past half-decade, this sector of web services is dominated by enormous sites, often with millions of members, such as Facebook and Myspace primarily in North America, Hi5 and Xing primarily in Europe, Orkut in South and Central America and Orkut, Friendster and Cyworld in the Asia-Pacific region.
Users of social networking sites are typically encouraged to create a public profile with information about their interests and hobbies, and seek out other members to add as friends (or invite existing friends who aren't using the service yet). Services typically include various methods of communicating with one's set of friends via profile updates, private or public messaging, forums, blogging, photo, audio and video-sharing, real-time chat, and other tools and methods of online communication. Some give users a wide range of control over the appearance, style and layout of their personal profiles, and some (notably Facebook) encourage the installation of plug-in "applications" that can bring in data and information from third-party sites to display and interact with on one's profile.
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11/19/09 7:00pm Computing Twitter asks "What's happening?" Farewell, "What are you doing?"
The site has asked "What are you doing?" since its inception, but because it has evolved into new territory a new phrase was needed. dig deeper
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11/18/09 4:10pm Gaming, Computing Sony PlayStation 3 joins Facebook with firmware 3.10 today
Sony says that more Facebook features are coming, but that it has no plans for Twitter integration. dig deeper
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11/17/09 7:00pm Computing, Gaming Xbox 360 now does Facebook and Twitter, PS3 firmware 3.10 to add Facebook too
Microsoft promised social networking on the 360 way back at E3, but Sony will offer similar features any day now. dig deeper
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11/16/09 5:07pm Computing President Obama says he's never used Twitter
Obama said even though he's never used Twitter, he's not a fan of China's censorship of the service. dig deeper
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11/12/09 7:40pm Computing, Gaming Google SPDY protocol to speed up the web, Xbox Live gets Facebook and Twitter Tuesday, Microsoft denies Windows 7 was inspired by Mac OS X
Google is working on an application-layer protocol called SPDY (pronounced "speedy") that it claims increases web page load times… dig deeper
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11/10/09 7:35pm Computing, Mobile Google offers free airport Wi-Fi for the holidays, Motorola Droid sales reach 100,000 over the weekend (probably), LinkedIn and Twitter team up
Google has signed on to provide free Wi-Fi in 47 United States airports over the holidays, including Las Vegas, San Jose, Boston,… dig deeper
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11/06/09 6:30pm Computing, Home A/V Skype founders keep 14% of company, LinkedIn gets a redesign, Boxee beta to be available December 7
Skype's founders and eBay have come to an agreement on the terms of the sale of Skype to private investors. The founders will… dig deeper
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10/29/09 8:20pm Computing, Mobile WordPress for iPhone 2 announced, Twitter Lists goes live, Best Buy offers Motorola Droid presale with instant rebate
If you've got an iPhone and your blog operates on the WordPress platform, you can manage it on the go; version 2.0 of the… dig deeper
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10/26/09 5:35pm Computing, Gaming, Home A/V, Mobile New York Times editor Bill Keller says Apple tablet is "impending," Sony PlayStation 3 gets Netflix streaming, Facebook Share adds counter and other new features
Bill Keller is the Executive Editor of The New York Times, so he ought to have some inside information about what the company is… dig deeper
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10/22/09 5:32pm Computing, Gaming, Mobile Steve Ballmer says Xbox 360 Blu-ray add-on is coming, Bing Facebook search to go live within two months, Microsoft stores open in Scottsdale and Paris
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Gizmodo in an interview today that the Xbox 360 gaming console will finally get a Blu-ray add-on,… dig deeper
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10/21/09 7:37pm Computing Google and Bing add Twitter real-time search, Amazon calls Windows 7 "biggest pre-order product of all time," Google joins forces with iLike and LaLa for music search
Google and Bing are now both offering real-time searches of Twitter updates. Bing will also search Facebook statuses in the near… dig deeper
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10/19/09 6:30pm Computing, Mobile Facebook to get new home page again, Apple sells 7.4 million iPhones, Google offers free Wi-Fi on Virgin holiday flights
Facebook will soon make changes to its home screen again. This time it's adding two new ways of viewing your news feed: "Recent… dig deeper
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