Network traffic in micro-blogging website Twitter reportedly spiked up every time a soccer player scores a goal in the World Cup, resulting to major outages in the websites network.
Based on records, Twitter traffic increased to as high as 2, 940 tweets per second every time a World Cup goal is scored. The average daily traffic [...]
The world’s largest and busiest travel advisory website TripAdvisor launched on Monday a new service on Facebook called “TravelAdvisor Trip Friends,” which offers users travel tips about different tourist destination directly from their social networking friends.
In an interview, TripAdvisor founder and chief Steve Kaufer said that the Facebook-based travel advisory will be the next big [...]
Yahoo Inc. announced on Monday that it will be importing personal update features of popular social networking site Facebook, which will allow users to view “news feed” from the social platform on their Yahoo email accounts.
In a statement, Yahoo said that its users will have to personally turn the link to avail of the services, [...]
Facebook Inc. faces possible privacy complaints anew after the introduction of the “Like” button that would allow major publishing companies to interconnect their webpages directly to the social networking site’s data base.
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said that the “Like” feature will make the Internet smarter and “more social” than it was before.
The new [...]
Despite the recent update in Facebook’s privacy policies, consumer groups and online privacy advocates still want to have a complete opt-in approach in the social networking site’s system.
The groups, led by the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), has filed a complaint before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calling for a regulatory intervention to prevent further [...]
A new study released by Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that image-conscious youths are now lecturing their adult counterparts on what to do in managing their social networking accounts, particularly their privacy.
Experts at Pew Internet said that the trend has gone against the conventional wisdom where adults used to lecture kids about their [...]
The long-awaited desktop program Seesmic has finally hit the Apple App Store allowing iPod, iPhone, and iPad users to integrate social networking site features of Facebook and Twitter.
The Seesmic App was earlier released for Research in Motion’s Blackberry and other Android-based Smartphones, giving many iPhone users something to envy.
The application works [...]
Hundreds of mothers are now complaining about the “catastrophic impact” of social networking websites on their adopted children as increasing use of such platforms by the kids’ natural parents threatened adoption policies.
Based on the complaints, adopted children are being tracked down by their natural parents, which undermined that standard operating controls and safeguards being implemented [...]
In bid to give kids and their parents a safe and child-friendly community online, Togetherville has launched on Tuesday a new social networking website where children, parents, and caretakers can socialize and meet new “childhood friends” over the Internet.
In an interview, Togetherville co-founder and chief executive officer Mandeep Singh Dhillon said that the new social [...]
Embattled social networking website MySpace.com announced on Monday plans to simplify its privacy setting as part of the overall package of differentiating itself from rival Facebook, which is now in hot water over questionable privacy practice in the past.
Wall Street Journal reports also told that the new privacy setting and control will be launched in [...]
