Software giant Microsoft has quietly launched the new So.cl, a social networking site that is specifically designed for students. Although a social network service, the company clarified that the website is not meant to compete with Facebook or any other existing websites. The company has been giving hints to So.cl since last year, but it launched the site over the weekend...
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Social network site Facebook has deleted photos of girls breastfeeding and has apologized for the error of removing these photos for violation of policy. Facebook has taken down a page for Express Yourself Mums, a site that promotes breastfeeding, over photos of girls breastfeeding their dolls. The website’s co-owner, Sharon Blackstone, posted a photo of her seven-year-old...
Google+, the Internet search giant’s attempt to rival Facebook, has received 2.6 million unique visits in the United Kingdom in November 2012, according to comScore. The UK-specific traffic data released by comScore do not include visits through mobile devices. The figures show that Google’s social network service ranked the United Kingdom as the seventh highest...
At least seven police officers in the United Kingdom have resigned, two have been sacked and 150 are facing disciplinary action for posting inappropriate comments or photos on social networking site Facebook in the last four years. Police officers used the website to comment on other people’s wives, harass other people and brag about beating up people during protests....
With the holidays just around the corner, Google is rolling out some new features for its Google+ social network. Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of Google+, said that the new features they are releasing includes a tool called the noise filter, which can fine tune a user’s stream to control which posts can be seen. “We’re adding fine-grained controls...
A prince of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in micro blogging site Twitter, adding another investment in the global media industry. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is a nephew of the king of Saudi Arabia and was estimated to have a fortune of $20 billion by Forbes magazine, already owns a 7 percent share in News Corp. and is also currently planning on starting...
The rumored Socl search/social network project of Microsoft seems to be real and is reported to be open for beta testing in the near future. A social network called ‘Socl’ is being developed by Microsoft to rival Google’s new Google+ and Facebook. Back in July, Microsoft hinted that a social network service is in the works when Socl.com was accidentally...
Social network site Facebook has quietly rolled out a new translation feature last night, aiming to break language barriers between users from different countries. The new service, which uses Bing Translate, enables users to translate contents from Facebook Pages, like comments and posts, into their chosen language. Any public page that is not in a user’s native...
A new feature of Facebook’s highly-anticipated music service has been revealed thanks to a Twitter post from a high level employee. Ji Lee, a Google creative director that was pirated by Facebook in April, prematurely tweeted about a new, unannounced feature of the social network’s music service. “The ‘Listen with your friend’ feature in ticker...
In a blog post by Google has announced that it is now opening the doors for its social networking service, Google Plus, to everyone. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal,” wrote Vic Gundrota, Google’s senior vice president of Engineering, in a blog post. “We’re...
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