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Try Cliqset 2.0, The Biggest Social Media Connecting Service

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Cliqset (a social network) has introduced what’s being called the biggest social network integrating service, Cliqset 2.0. As social media becomes bigger and more involved in our online lives than ever, having multiple social media accounts is the most common practice among users. Keeping track of each, updating, replying and performing other tasks can be […]

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Facebook Introduces A Simpler Application Permission System

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Facebook’s privacy settings woes seem far from over as the company continues to roll out simpler versions of several of its functions. The latest is a much simpler application permission system where third party apps specify exactly what data they need to access and gives users the option to opt out later if they wish. […]

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‘Google Me’ The New Facebook Competitor?

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Talking about social media must be a sore, if not taboo, topic over at the Google headquarters. The world leaders in a number of online services have still to create a decent presence in the field which is fast becoming internet users’ biggest playground. Social media has changed the way we communicate, promote, earn and […]

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Must Buy This Summer: Yahoo’s Style Guide For The Web

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Yahoo is taking upon itself the responsibility to bring solutions to all our digital publishing queries and problems as it has announced the launching of “The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World”, on July 6 by St. Martin’s Griffin. It will not only be available […]

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Pakistani Court Orders Monitoring Sites For Offensive Material

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The High Court of the Pakistani city Lahore has ordered the country’s Telecommunication authorities to monitor popular search engines and block about 17 sites carrying offensive material. The engines and sites being monitored include Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN, YouTube and Wikipedia. The order came after a case was filed in the city’s High court by […]

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Watch The First Trailer Of ‘The Facebook Movie’

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After releasing a poster last week, Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer of ‘The Social Network’, its upcoming movie capturing the creation of Facebook. As reported earlier, the movie is partially based on the book ‘The Accidental Billionaires’ and chronicles the birth of world’s biggest social network in a Harvard dorm room by a […]

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YouTube’s New Record, 14.6 Billion Videos Viewed in May 2010

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American web metrics company comScore released new statistics today which reveal an astonishing increase in the online video viewing trend around the world. The leader among all video hosting sites is who else but Google owned YouTube which received a record 14.6 Billion hits in the month of May alone, representing 43.1 % of all […]

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“Out-of-Process Plug-Ins” on the New FireFox 3.6.4

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Mozilla has released the new FireFox 3.6.4 and is promising a crash free experience with a new feature called ‘Out-of-process plug-ins” or OOPP. The new FireFox has fixed a lot of bugs and carries new patches too but it’s the OOP that’s the highlight of the new version. This feature will prevent crashing of the […]

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Acer Expects It’ll Overtake HP By Year’s End

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Some might call it a little too ambitious but Acer might just be on to something with their positive expectation of overtaking HP in worldwide laptop shipments before the end of 2010. The Taiwanese company is one of the biggest players in the laptop market and Chairman J T Wang told investors in a conference […]

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First Poster For ‘The Facebook Movie’ Unveiled

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Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood’s leading film companies, has released the first poster for ‘The Social Network’ or ‘The Facebook Movie’ as most people are calling it. The movie, set to be in theatres this October, tells the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the little social networking site he created in his Harvard dorm room […]

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WordPress.com Crosses 200 Million Blog Posts

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If you’re a blogger on WordPress.com here’s another reason to update your blog. You have helped WordPress reach the impressive milestone of 200 million blog posts since its inception. The site has 11.4 million blogs and data from Quantcast says more than 260 million people access them every month. A huge number of these blogs […]

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Data From comScore Shows a Strong Growth Rate for Twitter

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Considering that it’s only 3 years old, one would expect Twitter to still be the new- kid- on- the- block but facts show it’s already one of the biggest social networking sites and showing strong growth on a monthly basis. Twitter stands behind only Facebook and Youtube in users count and data released from online […]

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Facebook Earned $ 800 Million in Revenue Last Year, Reuters

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Reuters has revealed Facebook’s revenue figures for the year 2009 and though they are not surprising or implausible at all, they’re still mind blowing. According to Reuters newswire, world’s number 1 social networking giant raked in a record $ 800 million last year, about 100 million more than the expected figure and turned a part […]

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Swype Offers Free Download for All Android Handsets

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The immensely popular touch screen enabled text-input application from Swype is now available for all Android handset users to download directly from their website. The offer is available for a limited time (a couple of days) so there’s no time to waste if your phone did not come pre-installed with the feature that provides a […]

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YouTube’s Search for World’s Most Creative Video

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YouTube has teamed up with HP and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in search of what they’re calling “the very best creative video from around the world”. Video artists can submit their entries till July 31, 2010, 12:00 p.m PT, simply by posting them on YouTube and then submitting them at Youtube Play, a platform […]

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Fastest Browser in the World, Chrome or Safari?

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Apple is claiming its new Safari 5 browser is lightening fast after a major performance boots that beats Google Chrome hands down. It also comes with the new Safari Reader (which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles), extensions and better HTML 5 support. The Safari reader is getting rave reviews from all […]

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Internet In 2020, All in the Cloud?

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The Elon University (USA) researchers have published a report based on a survey of 900 Internet/ tech experts and analysts which predicts that Internet users will “live mostly in the cloud” by 2020. In layman’s terms this basically means that we’ll be doing most of our online work through web-based and mobile apps such as […]

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Share Your Flickr Photos on Facebook

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Now there’s no need to upload your photos separately on Facebook after you’ve saved them on Flickr. Flickr has just announced the new feature which allows users to connect their Flickr and Facebook accounts .Opting for this feature will automatically send an update to a users’ Facebook account every time a photo or video is […]

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FIFA Fever Taking Over the Web

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How do you know the FIFA Football World Cup has finally arrived? The answer couldn’t be simpler. When you see Google changing its search result logo from Goooooogle to Goooooooal. Whether we like it or not, we’ll be eating, sleeping and living Football throughout the next month and it’ll be impossible to escape FIFA fever […]

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Is Social Networking the New Google?

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The web analytics firm Hitwise’s latest survey is enough to send web search giants like Google in to some serious damage control mode. Studies and survey results show that the trend of users preferring social networking sites over search engines is continuously on the rise and after the US, where Facebook’s overall traffic beat that […]

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