Social Networks on the Mobile Phone

Social Networks are no longer the hip thing. But mobile social networks are increasing vying to emerge as the next big phenomenon. And at stake is the massive number of mobile phones that are expected to go into circulation.

Arun on March 6, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 1 Comment

Family Websites: Keeping Your Family Intact Virtually

The family that prays together stays together. Isn’t that cute? You see pictures of families going to church, celebrating the holidays. There are even a few of these photographs where the whole family went on a beach, had some fun time in Disneyland, and threw in a party for Junior. These and a lot of other stories are worth remembering.

Well, surprise, surprise. The Internet not only allows you online photo-sharing, blogging, and video-posting, but also brought these three (and other online features) together to bring you a revolution in online networking. Let’s meet some “Family Websites,” shall we?

Loki on February 2, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 3 Comments

Facebook Applications to Run From Any Website

Facebook has announced the availability of a JavaScript client library that makes it possible to make calls to Facebook APIs from any website.

Arun on January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 1 Comment

Thank You for Social Shopping, Please Come Again

Since its birth, the Internet had been the greatest pioneer in bringing people from around the globe together, and once again, it created a new virtual class in society, the “social shoppers.”

As defined in Wikipedia, social shopping is a shopping method that incorporates both e-commerce and traditional shopping. In social shopping, consumers or even window shoppers can shop within a social network, complete with user or store profiles, and products and their prices.

Social shopping is still a small portion of the whole Internet traffic, according to Hitwise, a research firm that tallies online competitiveness. However, despite starting with only less than 1 per cent of all U.S. website visits, social shopping exploded in 2007, increasing their shopping activities eightfold, along with their Internet traffic share.

Loki on January 26, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 4 Comments

Cisco Betting Big on Social Network Variants

The Internet has been termed as the information superhighway. But at the hardware levels, it all comes down to bits being shoved at electronic speeds across networks. And no other company knows more about these than the networking giant Cisco.

Arun on January 25, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | Leave a Comment

Social Technology and the Enterprise

When it comes to the Web, technology transformations have followed a general trend of moving from the research space to the consumer space and then to the enterprise space. While presence and popularity in the consumer space is considered to provide hype-value, its the adoption by businesses and utility in enterprises that adds true credence and commercial value to technologies. Case in point being the adoption of e-mail as the communication vehicle of choice for business.

Arun on January 15, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | Leave a Comment

Come 2008, Watch Out When Socializing Online

An article at BBC World brings to focus one critical point regarding security online - more personal content online means more attention from malware authors.

Arun on January 11, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 2 Comments

2007: The Year of Social Networking

An article at PC World does a great job of summarizing the major developments in social networking space in 2007 and ponders over the prospects and uncertainties for 2008.

Arun on January 2, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks | 1 Comment

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