4chan Tumblr: 4chan vs. Tumblr Micro-Blogging Site
What is 4Chan and Tumblr? 4Chan is an English-language imageboard website launch in 2003. It was the controversial site blocked by AT&T in 2009 and was written in our article – AT&T Blocks 4chan Website for Alleged DDOS Attack.
Social Networks like FaceBook, Twitter, 4chan, Tumblr, Myspace and Friendster are like sprouting all over the net.
Yahoo.com Homepage and Search Went Down! “Connection Timed Out” Error Seen
The world’s most-visited homepage on the internet went down on October 14, 2010. Yahoo.com’s website frontpage went inaccessible for some time starting 2:30PM PDT.
Yahoo! home and search page went offline on October 14
New Twitter Makes Embedding of Youtube Videos and Uploading of Photos a Breeze
Have you noticed the New Twitter homepage lately? It’s not just the new design of the homepage that makes the new Twitter a successful social networking site. The new Twitter is about a healthier interaction between members. Guess what? Twitter’s about to be re-modeled!
Facebook Android OS SDK for Developers Supports Advanced Authentication via OAuth 2.0
Facebook has finally acknowledged the fast-rising popularity of Android OS. Recently, the mobile development team of Facebook has released the official Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Android OS platform. You can test out the beta version by downloading it from http://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk/. This is a big turnaround policy for them since they always favored the iPhone platform. As a matter of fact, the company released the iPhone SDK more than a year ago and has never made any effort back then to support the growing Android OS community of developers. Back in March, a new Android update was also launched. Said Android update aimed to improve OpenGL support with Android NDKr3.
Facebook Mobile Website Version 0.facebook.com Partners and Wireless Carriers
Facebook has partnered up with telephone companies in more than 50 countries to support this new mobile website’s free access policy. Just like what I am enjoying now, check if your phone company is one of those supporting this new zero-data fee surfing of Facebook’s mobile website version 0.facebook.com. Here’s a picture below showing all the first batch of telecom companies that already signed-up to support it. More partners are on the way.
Facebook’s 0.facebook.com is a Faster Mobile Website Version
Hey, folks, may we take a moment off from lambasting Facebook for their privacy-violations. In case you didn’t know, I am now enjoying much faster access to Facebook from my Samsung Galaxy S i9000 android phone. I am also delighted to discover that my Facebook visits aren’t eating up my phone’s monthly data plan. This is because last May 18, the company released a much-improved version of its website for mobile phone users. The new site is 0.facebook.com (“0″ is zero) and it’s a godsend for someone like me who just can’t keep away from Facebook.
Facebook “Stories” App Launched after Facebook Users Reached 500 Million in Number
I’m sure Google and Yahoo aren’t happy with this news especially that Google Me social networking platform is in the works. Facebook, after only 6 years of existence, has reached a major milestone by reaching 500 million members. The social networking site’s young founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made this significant announcement on his blog. Google Me producers (Google and Zynga) must be upset but who cares? Obviously, very proud and jubilant of this record-setting feat, Zuckerberg said this level of success was never imagined when he launched Facebook 6 years ago from his college dorm.
Google Me Social Networking Platform is Being Developed According to Ex-Facebook CTO
First it was Digg.com founder Kevin Rose who started the rumor that Google has been recruiting people to create their new social networking platform tentatively called Google Me. This social networking site is rumored to compete (and probably destroy) Facebook, which recently added Face Detection Technology as a new feature. He hinted that he was approached by Google headhunters to join their team. Now this tale is further being hyped up because Adam D’Angelo, former Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, has also publicly declared on his social networking website, Quora, that Google is really working on putting up Google Me with many people already involved in the project. D’Angelo called Google Me “a top priority project” that is being modeled on Facebook. It is not Orkut 2.0, Google is building this project from the ground up.
Google Me Social Networking Site: Google Joins Zynga Games vs Facebook
Google Me, the next-gen social networking from the internet sensation, Google, is actually real. A source close to Zynga officials has leaked that advertising behemoth Google secretly invested at least $100 million dollars to Zynga last month. While both Google and Zynga refused to confirm this rumor, multiple sources have confirmed this deal. Another source said Google itself and not its investment arm, Google Ventures, invested between $100 to 200 million to the world’s biggest social gaming company. This undercover move is apparently in preparation for the launch of Google Games later this year or early 2011.
Quit Facebook Day Launched by 32K Users Who Quit Facebook
More than 32K users have quit Facebook on Monday. This same group of ex-Facebook members launched a “Quit Facebook Day” and have started to encourage other users to quit the biggest social networking site as of today. According to these Facebook quitters, privacy policies in Facebook have been violated. Farmville and Mafia Wars players in Facebook should read this article in full. These games or game apps are some of the better reasons why FB has become extremely popular and have driven new users to sign up everyday.
Users Launched Quit Facebook Day Campaign Starting Monday