How much time do you spend on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. The answer will differ from person to person, but can you guess how much time an average user spend tweeting and facebooking? According to a survey by The Nielsen Company, the average social network user around the world spend more than five and a half hours on sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009. This is...

Who does not know what Facebook is, these days? Almost everyone has a Facebook profile. From students to politicians, even dogs have their own profiles managed by their owners. To date, it has more than 400 million active users around the world. But what if you do not have an internet connection? Or even a computer? This is why Research In Motion (RIM) founder, Mike Lizaridis, has teamed up with Facebook...

With over 1.6 million monthly active users, the game, Empire Battle, is continuing to stand on higher grounds amongst contemporary adventure-combat games on Facebook. This game Deals with mythical creatures, collections, weapons, fighting rivals, and building properties. The characters are geared in medieval-age outfits, giving the players a fantasy feel of what it is like to go into battles against...

Words have been out before that Google’s product Gmail will get social networking features. Google has finally launched its new social product called Google Buzz.Buzz, unveiled yesterday, will let Gmail users share status updates and links to media, like videos, news feeds and photos. It is being compared heavily with Facebook’s FriendFeed service, which also allow posting, sharing and...

Facebook has yet another reason to celebrate about this week apart from celebrating it’s 6th anniversay. According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the No. 1 networking-site is hitting 400 million membership this week. “Today we’re celebrating our sixth birthday, and this week there will be 400 million people on Facebook. Just one year ago we served less than half as many people,...

Celebrating it’s 6th anniversary, Facebook has rolled out a new layout for the home page. The prominent changes are: Notifications: All the latest notifications, requests and messages will be accessible from a new button  available beside the search bar on the profile home page. Left menu: The left menu have been organized to make it easier to communicate and discover content from friends, access...

Muziic is the latest music application to hit Facebook. This music application is different from most of the other music application that you have on Facebook. Another music app?? Yeah!! But firstly, what do you want in a music application? For most music lovers, the answer would be the ability to search and listen to specific tunes, create play lists and share them. Some might like to have some radio...

Facebook has become a giant in the internet world. In fact, in November of this year, it achieved its 100 millionth monthly U.S. visitor. It has become as popular as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. It has even surpassed AOL. However, there is one place where it not yet king: Japan. The popularity of Facebook in Japan has increased tremendously, from 355,000 unique visitors in November 2008 to 1.39 million...

Inmate Craig Lynch, 28, talked about tucking in to a venison steak and basking in Caribbean temperatures in his warm home, making mockery of efforts to find him by posting messages on Facebook. Three months ago, Lynch broke out from an open prison in Suffolk, East England, towards the end of a seven-year sentence for aggravated burglary. Instead of hiding away, he reportedly set up a Facebook account...

Facebook has been blamed for the breakdown of thousands of marriages. The site was named in at least 20% of divorce petitions in America this year, according to research, and the most common reason is spouses engaging in saucy sex chat with their online friends. Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behavior. Other social networking...

Facebook, the largest social-networking site has just realeased its year-end lists introducing Facebook Memology. “Memology” refers to the study of how “memes,” or new ideas and trends, are spreading on Facebook. The data is said to be harvested from tracking (anonymously) millions of Facebook status updates throughout the year. Many significant new events and celebrities made...

Facebook announced the date of next year’s F8 conference: April 21-22, to be held in San Francisco. F8 is an event where Facebook showcase their latest developer products. This is a big event because Facebook’s past two F8 conferences have marked the debut of some of its biggest products. In May 2007, Facebook launched the groundbreaking Facebook developer platform, which spurred the creation...

How often do you forget your anniversary? Forgotten anniversary, embarrassing moments, fights, break-ups and the list goes on for many people. Many sitcom episode and romantic comedies creates subplots based on this.  So, it doesn’t matter how many anniversaries you have forgotten or missed if you make sure you don’t missed it again in future. Facebook will also help you in doing so ...

Simon Fuller, pop idol creator and manager, is going beyond TV with another reality show which will be broadcast on the internet and radio. The program, If I Can Dream, is set to be broadcast from early next year in the US, which will first be streamed online before hitting television. If I Can Dream will feature five young people; three aspiring actors, a model and a musician. Their experiences will...

Once upon a time, when one hear the word “URL shortner,” then TinyURL flashes through the mind. Since TinyURL was launched way back in 2002, many join this url-shortening game. URL shorteners are tools that transform a long internet address in to a much shorter sting of random characters so that it is easier to read or share. Earlier this year Bit.ly deposed TinyURL as the official link...