Brazil Comes To Grief After A Tragic Story

After a kidnapping that lasted 100 hours of negotiation with police. Lindemberg Alves (22), killed his ex-girlfriend Eloá Pimentel (15) and shot her friend Nayara Silva. The police is now being questioned about its efficiency and responsability in this tragic outcome....

Visualize Recent Edits to Google Maps

Forget Orkut, Google’s best homegrown social product might just be Google Maps. Today the Maps team has released a “Recent Edits” feature that shows you the most recent updates people have made to...

12 years of social networks - who was first?

Word "Social network" was first introduced by J. A. Barnes in 1954. Which one was first social network on the web?

The “Gog and MaGoogle” War on Social Networking

" The “Gog and MaGoogle” war on social networking has begun. From marc.blog, October 30th, 2007.‘OpenSocial details coming out’ …”Well well well - the wars have begun. Just as Facebook...

Maka-Maka: Google's answer to Facebook?

Google is going to try an end run around Facebook.  So who will emerge as the real platform?"Something is stirring in the depths of the Googleplex. The Gods of Search, dismayed by Facebook's conversion to...

Facebook banned in United Arab Emirates

Oppressive governments the world over struggle with the access to information provided by the internet. The banning of YouTube in Morocco, the firewall in China, and most recently the apparent blocking of...

Orkut beats Abhishek Bachchan

Social website is MTV Youth Icon 2007. Nationwide urban survey says ideas have replaced idols

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