China 2010: shuts down 1.3 million websites

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Despite the numerous criticisms they had been receiving from the international community, including those from the owners and administrators of various websites that they had shut down, the popular “Great Firewall of China” had successful shut down 1.3 million websites in 2010. At the end of 2010, there was decline of the total number of … Read more

Happy Oasis: New Game in Facebook eyes to end Extremist view

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Social Media had been playing various roles in the society today. It serves as bridge between long time friends, people with common goals and even breaks cultural barriers. One of today’s leading social sites is Facebook who had pioneered the features of games as part of its applications. After the success of Farmville followed by … Read more

Skype is finally on Facebook

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Finally, Facebook and Skype joined together! This was the biggest news broke during the press conference held in California which was attended by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Skype’s Tony Bates. Competition makes the market place very exciting since producers and manufacturers will give their best to win in the heart of the costumers. And this … Read more

E3 2011: The Sims Social to offer Facebook flirting

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Many got hooked! From the home of Farmville were people were amazed on planting, investing and reaping crops, Facebook, the world’s largest and most popular social networking site will soon be featuring a new game that will give those hopeless romantic, secret admirers and the like the chance to covet the one they fantasized via … Read more

Google wanted to team with Facebook, now fierce rival

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Facebook is no doubt today’s one of the top tech giants who is conquering the internet may it be on the number of its members or in the number of advertisers posting their products in this popular social networking sites making its founder’s headed by Mark Zuckerberg to be young very successful entrepreneurs, and this … Read more

Selena Gomez faces Death Threats

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Jealousy explodes as romantic photos and videos of Justin Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez widely scatter on various sites. Bieber fanatics are angry with the Disney star after many PDA scenes from Maui vacation had leaked. Since Bieber was the one to grab the first ever Fan Favorite Award from the 2011 Billboard Music Awards, … Read more

Consumer Reports publisher urges Facebook to Keep kids off

WASHINGTON- Facebook Inc. attention is being called by Consumer Reports Publisher with regards to the issue that there are still many children under 13 years who are active in their accounts which they considered as a sign on the networks failure to implement better ways to keep those kids out of this popular social network. … Read more

Lady Gaga ousts Oprah on Forbes celebrity power list

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“Mother Monster” , Lady Gaga had overtaken the number 1 spot in this years Forbes Celebrity power list which was released on Wednesday. She had taken the spot owned by Oprah Winfrey before making her as one of the world’s powerful celebrity figure. The basis of the the Forbes annual “The Celebrity 100” 2011 to … Read more

Facebook shares greater traffic for Top News Sites

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Top news sites gets more traffic through Facebook compared to Twitter, based on the recent study conducted by Pew Research Center who released the result on Monday. Its no surprise that Google still take the lead in referral traffic for news sites. Approximately, almost 30% of clicks for news and product searches came from this … Read more