Earlier this month, Microsoft blog sites erupted with the news that Bill Gates had cancelled his Facebook account after The Sun ran a story saying that Gates made the move because he was “getting more than 8,000 friend requests a DAY.” Speculation ranging from Gates having a secret profile to someone else controlling his account [...]
Developers of the popular social-networking Web site Facebook have unveiled a preview of the changes that will be incorporated in the layout of Facebook profiles in the coming weeks. They say the core purpose of the redesign is to make user profiles clutter-free.
The “clutter” comes into the picture as more and more applications are added [...]
If you thought Facebook’s Beacon ad program had FAIL written all over it, wait until you see what Yahoo! has in store for you.
Like Beacon, the new “OneConnect” program follows Web 2.0’s logic to its natural conclusion – you see what everyone else is doing, even when you don’t want to.
OneConnect is essentially a single [...]
London, Feb 09: Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has deleted his Facebook account after being inundated by friend requests from a huge number of people.
The computer mogul forked out 120 million pounds to get a 1.6% stake in the social networking website last year.
A colleague has revealed that Gates used to spend about 30 minutes chatting [...]
If Facebook is the great whale of social networking, applications are the barnacles on its back, firmly attached and along for the ride.
As Facebook’s 55 million users are well aware, the site doesn’t just contain the staples of social networking. The California-based site last year opened its platform to software developers that offer applications of [...]
