Conducting polls on social networking sites are increasingly becoming a regular feature among users. But, one user-generated poll, conducted on leading social networking site Facebook, went horribly wrong as it asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, prompting the US secret service to investigate the matter. According to the Associated Press, the unbecoming poll, posted on Saturday, asked respondents "Should Obama be killed?" The choices: No, Maybe,...

Leading social networking site Facebook has unveiled a new Lite version of the site for users with slow or poor internet connections. According to BBC, the new slimmed down version will be a faster and simpler form simply because it offers fewer services than the main site. The popular social networking company’s latest version will be very much Twitter-like. It will only allow users to write on their wall, post photos and videos, view events and browse other people's profiles with no roo...

Surfing social networking sites has become a way of life all across the globe. Actually, there isn’t any age group that doesn’t get hooked on to these sites. The craze for using such social networking sites is at an all-time high and that’s not bad at all for the growth of the social networking companies. Popularity wise, social networking sites are fast becoming a kind of ‘must use’ but what’s hugely ‘disturbing’ and ‘discouraging’ is ...

Facebook’s rivals may be quite far from swapping at their heels in terms of grabbing the social networking market space, but that hasn’t allowed them to be complacent. In fact, the world’s largest social networking company has been continuously making rapid strides, which was only amply indicated after it finally came public about making profit and having more than 300 million users. There was a huge deal of buzz in the social media circles ever since Facebook's founder and c...

For long, search engine giant Google was considered as a sworn enemy in many quarters of the news industry. But all that may change soon. In a move that seems to be showing signs of befriending the news service industry, Google has launched Fast Flip service that will provide users a new reading experience. According to BBC, the experimental news service will enable users to view news articles from major publishers and sift through pages as they would the pages of a magazine to find a good read...

The trend of marketers looking to give their brands that ‘wow feeling’ through the social networking sites may be fast catching up in contemporary times, but a new research carried out by Q Interactive, a leading digital marketing provider, has revealed that social networking sites seemed to have little influence on the purchasing decisions of women. According to the Brandweek, the data, which represents online survey answers collected from over 1,000 women from Aug. 11-14, 2009, wa...

U.S. search engine giant Google may be making all the right noises all across the globe, but in China, they haven’t been able to replicate the insurmountable presence they enjoy worldwide.  The reason – Chinese search engine company Baidu, has not only posed stiffer challenge to Google’s presence in China but have comfortably overtaken the American search engine. Baidu’s growing influence can be exemplified by the fact that they enjoy 75% of the search engine market ...

For all those ardent audiences of YouTube who are more accustomed to watching free full-length movies on the largest video site, this may not sound like music to their ears. If a report in The New York Times is anything to go by, YouTube is holding parleys with leading Hollywood studios to work out a deal that would ensure visitors fork out to watch full-length movies. YouTube, owned by Google, earns most of its revenue from advertising. Though an official seal to the deal is still awaited, th...

It is difficult to imagine life without internet. Such has been the presence of the World Wide Web across the globe that a lot of our day-to-day life activities have come to be depended on it. Very recently, the internet turned forty and its 40th birthday has only underscored the importance it has in our society. Thanks to the internet, the world seemingly has become smaller with dissemination of information happening at a rapid pace. E-mail, instant messaging, buying and selling stocks online...

Social networking sites are not just soaring on the popularity graph with each passing day but also enabled users to make social networking a more educative experience. Many teenagers are donning the educative role of introducing hundreds of new words into the language thanks to their prolific use of social networking sites like Twitter, Bebo and MySpace. According to UK-based Daily Telegraph, the induction of new words by teenagers using social networking sites has made such an impact that w...