Posts Tagged ‘Social network’

Mobile Is On the Rise

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

mobile-phonesThe world of high technologies would be unimaginable without smartphones, PCs, tablets and other electronic devices. Mobile technology has been penetrated into our everyday routine. Check your email, answer on a couple of messages in Facebook and update your timeline, don’t forget to tweet about your mood or weather this morning, to instagram your lunch, to check-into your final destination that you’ve reached with the help of a mobile navigator. Done? Imagine what it would be like if you forget your cell at home? Or if it wouldn’t have been invented at all? No way. Right. See below how our world is developing with all these mobile technologies. (more…)

Facebook and Twitter ‘help to politicize’ today’s youth

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

The web, social networking in particular, is helping to politicize younger people, according to the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute.

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The research studied over 2,500 members of the Generation Y over a number of years and found that based on social media updates, younger people are more likely to engage with their government if given the accessibility to so.

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Fighting Spam and Scams on Twitter

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Twitter presents a relatively new frontier for spammers, malware creators, and all around bad guys, which in turn has created the opportunity for security researchers and vendors alike to try to figure out, and put a stop to, their efforts.

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One company that’s trying to get a handle on the size of the problem, and on ways to fight it, is Barracuda Networks. During a talk at the RSA security conference here, which wraps up tomorrow, Barracuda outlined some of the research it’s been doing in this area over the past two years.

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Google Updates Social Search

Friday, February 18th, 2011

google-social-searchGoogle’s efforts to infuse its services with social elements have been relatively lackluster when not being outright stumbles, like the company’s privacy-challenged launch of Buzz last year. Google has a popular social network, Orkut, but that popularity remains confined to Brazil. And the service has been losing ground to Facebook in critical markets like India.

Google hopes to deploy more compelling social offerings this year and its latest effort along these lines demonstrates at least that the company is serious about social connectivity. Google is weaving social into search, its core service.

Google on Thursday said that it has begun mixing social content — friends’ posts to various services like YouTube, Flickr and the like — with its algorithmically determined search results.

So if your friends blog or tweet about their favorite coffee shops, your searches for coffee will return their musings, provided your friends aren’t posing somewhere that Google can’t reach, like past Facebook’s privacy settings.

Previously, social search results were more like the dregs of relevance, settling at the bottom of the search results page were they were less likely to be noticed.

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Facebook Places Deals to Target Local Business Ads in UK and Europe

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Facebook made a significant move into the potentially lucrative local business advertising space on Monday with the launch in the UK and other European countries of Places Deals, which gives users discounts and benefits with nearby shops, restaurants and venues through their mobile phones.

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Launched in the US last November, Facebook Deals lets users ‘check in’ to venues via the Places feature on its mobile app for iPhone, Android and through facebook.com on some smartphones.

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