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Facebook Most searched term and most visited site in 2011
Facebook was the most-searched term in 2011 for the third year in a row, accounting for 3.10 percent of U.S. searches, a 46 percent year-on-year increase, according to data from web monitoring firm Experian Hitwise. New tech-related search terms that made to the top 50 this year included addicting games, Amazon.com, CNN, Chase online, Face, [...]
Facebook threatens to sue Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook has threatened to drag Mark Zuckerberg to court. Well, the Zuckerberg in question is not the Facebook founder, but Israeli entrepreneur Rotem Guez who legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg recently. Though the name change is a recent episode, Facebook and the Israeli entrepreneur has been embroiled in a dispute since January this [...]
Facebook releases Smart Lists feature to group friends
Social-networking behemoth Facebook has added a new feature to its popular social network that would allow users to categorize groups of friends. A user can share photos, posts and links with these smaller, isolated groups of Facebook friends exclusively. Beginning Wednesday, the new feature will allow Facebook users to manage list of friends, providing them [...]
Twitter presents Web Analytics tool
Here is some good news for all those who use Twitter to network, get business visibility, vent, share links and blog posts, but have no tool to track or analyze traffic they are getting from the social network. The micro-blogging site is launching a new tool called Twitter Web Analytics. The new service which is [...]
Rebecca Black tops Google Zeitgeist 2011
So who tops Google Zeitgeist this year. Rebecca Black, the teen singing sensation was the fastest rising search subject in the United States this year. Zeitgeist said that the nuclear emergency in Fukushima, Japan after the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunamis also caught the attention of the world Even the nonexistent iPhone 5 also found [...]
Amazon promises software update for Kindle Fire problems
Amazon.com Inc. has said that it would soon be coming out with a software update for the Kindle as a solution to some of the problems that users of the tablet have been reporting. The launch of Kindle Fire tablet by Amazon was certainly greeted with a lot of enthusiasm by the consumers. But as [...]
