Before Facebook became popular, majority of the Asian social networking fans spend most of their time at Friendster. In fact, I got my first taste of social networking activities through Friendster. But that’s all a bygone era now as most of my social networking friends have moved to Facebook. Still, Friendster is alive and kicking in the Asian region, trying to maintain its stronghold and refusing to surrender over Facebook. Until now. [Read more…] about Friendster is Looking for Friends Who Will Buy Them
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Facebook Allows Username Change, For One Time Only
Just a quick heads up to inform you all, in case you’ve missed the announcement that Facebook is now allowing users to change Facebook profile username. So, if you’re one of those who created vanity URLs and you are not satisfied with what you’ve got, here’s your chance to come up with the coolest Facebook username that you could ever think of.
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U.K. Internet Users are So Into Social Networking
There are some interesting results pointed out by comScore’s latest report on U.K. users internet activities in May. Two interesting points actually – 9 out of ten U.K. Internet users have accessed a social networking site at least once and Facebook as the the most visited social networking site. [Read more…] about U.K. Internet Users are So Into Social Networking
Facebook Widens its Lead Over MySpace
Like all of you, I’ve been a silent witness to Facebook’s growth and its overtaking of MySpace in terms of unique visitors. Latest figures from comScore showed that Facebook’s unique visitors for June reached the 77 million mark already. This is a big leap from the unique visitors in May which is roughly 70.28 million. [Read more…] about Facebook Widens its Lead Over MySpace
Facebook Becoming an Adult Site, It’s Not What You’re Thinking Though
No, Facebook is not going into that kind of Adult thing that you might be thinking when you read the title of this post. What I mean to say is that Facebook users are getting older. And by older I mean way older. Citing an independent report on the demographic stats of Facebook’s Social Ads platform by analytics company iStrategy Lab, Mashable is reporting that majority of Facebook users now belong to the 24-54 age range, with siginicant increase in usage by users who belong to the 55 and above age range. [Read more…] about Facebook Becoming an Adult Site, It’s Not What You’re Thinking Though
Tweetmeme Adds More Buttons for More Retweet Goodness
Are you aware of Twitter aggregator called Tweetmeme? If you are, then you’ll be glad to know that the folks at Tweetmeme will be rolling out some new “image buttons” that you can use in other sites to give your valuable tweets more chances of getting “retweet”. This image button is similar to Techmeme’s retweet buttons which show the number of retweets your post has as well as the link for those who haven’t done so, to retweet your updates.
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