Category: Social Media

The Social Network is a movie about the founder of the most popular social network website ‘Facebook’ till date. This movie with tag line “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies” is directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. It is officially releasing today in USA and Canada.…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a blog post confirming his commitment to Newark’s public school system with $100 million foundation called Startup: Education. Saying that, “Education has always been important to me and my family,” Zuckerberg then goes into length about his views on education and the, “many different challenges all facing education…

Facebook servers presently are not able to handle the load of their 500+ million users and have been out for a while now.     Facebook’s Status page gives few more details –   Latency issues resolved Sep 22, 2010 5:08pm The API latency issues we were experiencing this morning have been resolved. Sorry for…

Twitter which recently gave complete new design to its users (still in rolling phase), got hit by latest XSS bug. Upon mouse hovering a link in a tweet – it doesn’t even ask you to click – you might redirect to any website (spammers are currently using this to redirect to pornographic and gaming websites)!…

Hate dealing with crummy captchas – the squiggly, indecipherable text strings web sites often force you to read and regurgitate for security reasons? Here comes a new innovative Solve Media way of doing this. The New York start-up isn’t getting rid of captchas, but it does promise to make them more tolerable: It says it…

Facebook has responded to the rumors on Facebook Phone with a classic non-denial denial. Facebook representative Jaime Schopflin in a statement to Mashable said “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook is not building a phone.” Here’s Schopflin’s entire statement, via Mashable: “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate. Facebook…

According to TechCrunch’s sources, Facebook is creating its own cellphone. According to the post, they are building the OS and have tied up with a hardware manufacture to build everything else. Specifically, Facebook wants to integrate deeply into the contacts list and other core functions of the phone. It can only do that if it…

Hot on the heels of Facebook overtaking Orkut as India’s most prominent social network with 21 million vs. 20 million unique visitors in July, the company officially opened its much anticipated office in Hyderabad earlier this week. Facebook Hyderabad is Facebook’s second International office, after Dublin, Ireland and the Indian team will include more sales…