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Facebook yesterday launched a new service named  Facebook Stories at facebookstories.com, a Web site that, according to Facebook, is dedicated to sharing “some of the most extraordinary, quirky, and thought-provoking stories and ideas from people around the world who make up the social graph.” Facebook might be banking on this new service to boost its public opinion and stock price.   Facebook [...]

Google’s  GTalk is currently down. Users are not able to see contacts or send messages, in some cases contacts are visible, the messages won’t get sent. As is the norm now various users on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites have reported this first. Google released a statement “We’re aware of a problem with Google Talk affecting a majority of users. The affected users [...]

During its earnings report on Tuesday,  Apple officially has announced that Mountain Lion  otherwise known as OS X 10.8, the latest edition of its operating system for Mac desktops and laptops will be released on Wednesday, July 25th. Users will be able to download it from the Mac App Store. Mac users all the way back to Snow Leopard can download the latest Apple software. At Apple’s recent Worldwide [...]

58 percent of people in UK send text messages each day, that’s way ahead of 47 percent who prefer making phone calls according to a study by Ofcom, the Independent regulator for the UK communications industries. The change in communication is being driven by the growth of smartphones, and Ofcom found that more than one quarter of adults (27 per cent) and close to half of teenagers (47 per cent) [...]

After Twitter introduced iOS integration last month, how could Facebook not get on the bandwagon, earlier today Facebook launched OS-level integration on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. A new iOS Dev Center was also revealed, so that developers have easy access the tools and resources  to build varied social apps for iOS. The key features of the new code are superior user session management, ready-to-use [...]

Twitter has launched today new versions of Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android. These new apps contain several updates including a video feature, now you can click on a tweet with a video link on your iPhone or Android device,  and have the video play directly in the tweet. Below are the new features as described by Sung Hu Kim,  Twitter’s Product Manager “Expand Tweets Since we [...]

Yahoo! Yahoo has rolled out refreshed search engine favoring news and entertainment related searches for Yahoo U.S. domain.  When you visit search.yahoo.com and search for entertainment or news-related topics, you ll get to see a box with vertical text tabs for different options – Videos, Images and Twitter. Yahoo is indeed trying to keep up in the search engine competition.  ” These [...]

source : sysomos For all the people who thought that you are getting heard and noticed by your twitter followers have got this wrong. Findings from a research from social-analytics company Sysomos reveals that  tweets have fleeting value over the course of a day. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – a reply or [...]

Twitter Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo announced that Twitter would be retiring its Early Bird advertising product, which partnered with retailers and e-commerce companies to offer discounted deals to Twitter users. “We had tremendous early success with it,” Costolo said, citing deals with Virgin America and Disney. “But it needs to be reworked or rethought.” Most of the deals offered [...]

Kindle for the Web Amazon has announced ‘Kindle for the Web’ beta, which allows book samples and snippets to be read directly from a web browser without any Kindle software. Customers simply click the “Read first chapter FREE” button on a book product page on Amazon or on other websites, and the first chapter will open within the web page. Customers can change the font size [...]