Google Buzz was a social networking service that Google integrated into the company’s web-based email product Gmail. Google Mail users were able to make use of Buzz to share messages, photos, videos and other information with their Gmail contacts or the public. Google Buzz was a first attempt to compete with successful social networking sites [...]

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Google’s new social networking service Google Plus has been off to a good start, thanks to Google’s determination and the invite only system. There has been lots of talk about the growth of Google Plus, and some sites did not fail to mention that the networks growth is a lot faster than that of Facebook’s [...]

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Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, announced to the world yesterday that Twitter was going to be rolling out its very own photo-sharing service over the next few weeks. He made this announcement yesterday, at the D9 conference and it was met with “tweets” throughout the technical world. Costolo says that Twitter photos won’t be competing with [...]

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Some amazing charts have been released today by Digital Surgeons showing the demographic breakdown of who actually uses the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.  It reveals some extremely interesting data.  This includes the fact that of Facebook’s 500 Million users, a massive 41% log in every single day and that 12%, that’s 60 Million people update [...]

Categories: The Web

The call “There’s nothing on TV” has long been a common phrase in households around the world, but now I’m beginning hear people express disappointment with the quality and availability of good stuff on the Internet.  This has just gotta be absurd, right!?  Well, perhaps not. There can be absolutely no doubting that the Internet [...]

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We love maps here at gHacks, especially ones that show technology trends around the world.  The latest is asocial networking trends map from Vincenzo Consenza who has partitioned the planet up to show what social networks are predominantly used in which countries. It shows clearly the lack of Facebook access in China and, frankly how many [...]

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Occasionally a really good news story about social networking comes along.  Today NeoWin is reporting the story of a 7 year-old Chicago girl who, as an avid Star Wars fan, took a Star Wars drinks bottle to school but was bullied after classmates told her Star Wars wasn’t for girls. Little Katie said about the [...]

Categories: Misc

There can be no doubt that social networking has taken off (which would make a good tweet, hmm) but recent research by research firm TNS has shed some light about variations on how we use it around the world, as reported by the BBC. The research, for which 50,000 people in 46 countries were interviewed [...]

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Evan Williams, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter is to stand down as Chief Executive Officer of the company to move into a role that will allow him to help make Twitter more profitable, according to a report by the BBC. Announcing the news, understandably in a Tweet, he said Twitter had to “meet [...]

Categories: The Web