Lady Gaga has her own social network

Another crazy over the eccentric New York singer Lady Gaga, in addition to preparing a world tour and new songs, has just launched a social network where you can gather all their "monsters" to have a "home" where...

Google+ Invite Shutdown: Google Social Network Curbs Sign Ups Due

Google+ launched Tuesday to a small group of users and the service was initially invitation only, with users "tapped" by Google to be among the first given just 15 invitations to hand out to others in their social...

Was Twitter blocked in Egypt ?

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New Networks Target Discomfort With Facebook

" Facebook grows, so does the number of disgruntled users. Right now, more than any other company, Facebook defines social networking. It has more than half a billion users and it's still growing. Recently, it even eclipsed that other hot Silicon Valley giant, Google, to...

Teenage girl blogged about her painful road to death

For one year 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway blogged about her fight against cancer. Thousands of people followed her blog  up to the day of her death. A longer version of this story can be found in...

Chicks Rule in Social Web

Social Web is currently used to describe how people socialize or interact with each other throughout the World Wide Web. Such people are brought together through a variety of shared interests. There are different...

Burberry Goes into the Social Media Trenches: Art of the Trench

Burberry, the chav staple, is going into the trenches of social media embarking on a new social networking venture called Art of the Trench. The century old brand is getting with the times and unveiling...

Qeep and ZestADZ partner up for mobile advertising

Cologne, Germany / Chennai, India – Thursday, 20th of August 2009 – Qeep, the U.K. and South Africa’s fastest growing mobile gaming and entertainment community has signed and extensive partnership for mobile advertising with ZestADZ– a global mobile ad marketplace...

Criminals Using Facebook for Identity Theft to be Punished

Criminals are moving online in greater numbers looking for easy targets.  Unfortunately, many people using social networking sites likes Facebook and MySpace make it too easy for criminals by freely...

What's the Use of Online Social Networks In Your Life?

Most people nowadays have online social networks. While browsing the net, I saw this diagram of what a social network means to us. But suddenly, my mind asked a burning question..what do you call that region where all of them intersect? "This is the diagram of a normal and...

Tweet This: You are being sued!

Can you defame someone in 140 characters or less?  Apparently so, according to designer Dawn Simorangkir, who has alleged that eccentic rocker Courtney Love has started a smear campaign against her on Twitter...

Facebook Lives Up To Its Name, Recognizes Faces

Everybody's least favorite social network is at it again with more anti-privacy fun and add-on application antics. In today's edition of 'hey-look-it's-me' technology, two 'face' sites have joined forces to identify...

Find "Where's the Party At..." in NYC & SF - Hot Spots Locator

It is common knowledge that in the course of every day, people are engaging in all kinds of activities and around different parts of a city.  From morning until night, people travel to work, while at...

Facebook to Allow Users to Participate in Policies, Terms of Use

After much back and forth (and backlash) regarding the recent launch — and subsequent retraction — of its allegedly restrictive 'new' Terms of Service, social networking giant Facebook announced Thursday that it...

arcalife.com: Just In Time For Recording Holiday Memories

A New Family Community To Store and Share Your Family Experiences arcalife is a new online family community where you can store all of your life's greatest memories, photos, videos, events and moments, while connecting with your family, searching your family genealogy and...

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