Category: News

A recent study by entrepreneur and hacker Nik Cubrilovic reports that Facebook can keep a track of the webpages visited by you with a Facebook button or widget even if you are not logged in Facebook. According to Nik Cubrilovic Facebook simply changes its tracking cookies instead of deleting them completely when you log out. […]

ComScore, the internet marketing research company, released a white paper providing details for which Facebook features are most used and where users interact with branded content on Facebook. 27% of Facebook browsing is on the news feed and home page, which is, 4% of all time spent online in the US.  21% of time was spent on […]

Google has decided to stop posting review snippets from third party sites on their Places page. Prior to this move, Google would automatically collect reviews, ratings, businesses info from third party websites like Yelp, TripAdvisor, Urban Spoon and CitySearch, as well as their own and then place it all under one web page.When the service […]

BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, has released its July 2011 SocialShare Site Analysis on the adoption of links and social sharing plugins of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. The report, which is an analysis of the front pages of the Web’s 10,000 largest sites, shows that – Facebook plugins are still the most popular; there’s been […]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, announced the introduction of features like video calling, group chat and a redesigned chat on Wednesday during a press conference at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters. Also at the event Facebook updated its user count to 750 million users worldwide.The group chat feature will let users talk with […]

Google has launched a demo version of its new social network product called Google+ which aims to “fix” the “broken” and “awkward way” people interact and share things online. The “subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools,” Vic Gundotra, senior vice-president of engineering, wrote in Google’s official blog […]

Google had earlier talked about its release on authorship markup that lets content creators claim the articles they’ve written. In an official Google blog post dated 7 June, 2011, the company said “The markup uses existing standards such as HTML5 (rel=”author”) and XFN (rel=”me”) to enable search engines and other web services to identify works by […]