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Google reveal fresh look for Orkut

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:27:11 +0000

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Orkut has revamped its look and added a crowd of new features as it tries to recover ground from one of its toughest competitor Facebook.

Google, which owns Orkut, believed the new look has a user interface, or homepage, which is faster and easier to use.

“With the new user interface (UI), the user does not have to visit each page for viewing videos, or say posting scraps.

Get to see all updates and respond to friends from the homepage itself. It also allows faster uploading of photos and has features like video chat, automatic face detection and a scroll down menu for viewing all friends on the same page.

India is the second leading market for Orkut after Brazil. “We have about 80-100 million users globally“

Facebook Will Provides its Application for Android Phones

AmitD — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:07:00 +0000

Facebook On Android Os

Facebook is the only Social network in the world that show such dedication to the mobile platform undoubtedly. After being a top app on the iTunes App Store for the iPhone & iPod Touch.

Facebook was also one of the first apps to be integrated inside the Palm Pre. Not losing any time and momentum Facebook is now all set to go official on the Android Market. The official Facebook app for Android couldn’t come at a better timer with a plethora of Android devices expected to be released in the coming months.

Initially the Facebook app for the Android isn’t expected to offer as much as it does for the Apple iPhone but it is expected to leverage the Android capabilities well.

US staff cut 30 percent by Myspace

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:06:29 +0000

Onetime social-networking pioneer MySpace has declare that it has cut its head count by 30 percent in what the company calls a “return to start-up culture.” Well, this is a nice way to lay it.

MySpace would be laying off half its employees in a move that had delayed its relocation to a bigger office space in the Los Angeles area. Reports had circulated MySpace’s full-time U.S. employee schedule will be down to 1,000 people, which means somewhere just 500 jobs were cut.

The layoffs are evenly distributed across all U.S. division of the company said by MySpace. Since MySpace also control a number of offices overseas, it’s not yet clear how they were affected and representatives decline remark as to whether international offices would be affected down the road.

Van Natta, the former chief operating officer at Facebook, was appointed as CEO of MySpace late in April after a short period at the head of start-up Project Playlist. Former CEO Chris DeWolfe had stepped down earlier that month, reportedly at the request of Jonathan Miller, the new digital czar at News Corp. Executive shakeups at MySpace had been happening periodically for nearly a year at that point.

MySpace’s new executive lineup gives it solid entertainment street cred: Van Natta was joined by former MTV digital exec Jason Hirschhorn and former AOLer Michael Jones. Late last year, another MTV digital-media executive, Courtney Holt, joined MySpace as the head of its new MySpace Music division.

Launching MySpace Music, which focuses on free streaming music supported by advertising, was a return to the company’s roots: once a hub for indie band promotion and society, MySpace had grown huge before Facebook began to catch up to it in international and then U.S. traffic. Partnerships with the likes of Google and a prominent endorsement of the OpenSocial developer initiative didn’t help it regain traction as a networking destination.

In March MySpace Music’s traffic was “huge.” But record label executives–who are partners in the MySpace Music joint venture–reported dissatisfaction with the revenue it was generating.

We personally, don’t know when this slowdown will stop and people will get their jobs, however job less trend is increasing and specially in US.

Facebook new design- Coming soon

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:33:24 +0000

Facebook Logo

Facebook has announced it will roll out a newly designed homepage for its users in middle of next week. Gone is the Newsfeed, it will now be replaced with “Stream,“ which sends real time updates to your page, letting you in on what your friends are doing in real-time. The status update feature is now called “Publisher” and asks “What’s on your mind?”

All text, links, photos or videos entered are immediately published on your home page and those of your friends. There will be plenty of filters, allowing you to decide what types of content you want to see in your stream and from which friends.

Facebook is offering a sneak peek-just log into your account and you’ll see the announcement on your homepage with a link to the “tour.“ Is this sound really cool? Let us know…

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