Reading blogs may be a good habit to inculcate, but you might not realize that the blog you just read and posted a comment on it, could pan out to be a supply line of  spam having links pointing to pages that use malicious links and infect your computer. Spammers are increasingly getting into smarter mode. They are using slicker ways and adopting newer levels of ingenuity to dupe users. Splog or spam blog, are weblog sites designed to host spam and promote affiliate websites. These blog si...

It’s official now. The buzz that was generated about internet auction site eBay keen on selling off Skype saw its logical conclusion as news trickled in about eBay selling a majority stake in its Skype Internet calling division to a group of private investors. According to social media news blog Mashable , eBay officially announced that it is selling Skype to a group of private investors, along with the price: $2.75 billion. The auction giant would be selling off 65 percent of the company...

There’s little doubt that social networking sites are fast becoming a way of life for people all across the globe. Usage of social networking sites are, in fact, becoming a fad in contemporary times if not anything else. It’s estimated that more than two and a half billion people use social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter among others where they post information about themselves and share it with online friends and colleagues. For all the users of social network...

Rumor mills have gone into an overdrive about internet auction site eBay-owned Skype being put up for sale. Though nothing could be confirmed at this point in time about a likely deal, technology blog TechCrunch has stated that a group of renown venture capital and large private equity firms are teaming up to make a bid to acquire Skype. The investors may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and one or more multi-billion dollar private equity firms. Interestingly, Index Ven...

It’s becoming a quite a disturbing trend to see people use social networking sites for all the wrong reasons. Keeley Houghton, from Malvern, Worcestershire, is the latest to join the bandwagon of those who use the social networking sites for most undesirable purposes. According to The Sun, Houghton has been pouring harassment on the Emily Moore for the last four years (since they attended school together), even going to the extent of threatening to kill her. Houghton has pleaded guilty t...

The recession is showing signs of easing out in U.S. and hiring seems to the buzzword for ace social networking company Facebook as it gird its loins to boost its staff by as much as 50 percent this year. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying in an interview to Bloomberg news agency that the economic climate is much better than before. “No one else has been hiring,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s been a great environment for us because the economy has he...

A recent study of the social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter has revealed that nearly half of Twitter messages are "pointless babble". The study, conducted by San Antonio-based research firm Pear Analytics, has disclosed that the popular micro-blogging platform is loaded with pointless messages rather than vital information. According to the Pear Analytics, the study was based on the hypothesis that Twitter is being used predominantly for self-promotion. While the site r...

Link Building has emerged as a useful pathway for drawing ‘increased’ traffic to a website. Link Building involves a process of creating inbound links to one’s own website, which can be done by reciprocal links, being listed in e-zines, newsletters, directories, search engines, etc. There are few types of linking one of which is reciprocal links. Reciprocal links or link exchanges is the process where two webmasters agree to show the other's link on their website. After link ...

Liskula Cohen has sashayed down the ramp with a great amount of success and has also graced the cover of Vogue. It’s her modeling exploits that keeps her in the news. But, for a change, the Canadian-born New York-based fashion model grabbed attention in a different manner after winning a precedent-setting court ruling, asking Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who called the former model a 'skank'. According to British daily Times Google took an adamant stand, initiall...

The use of social networking sites was taken to a ‘new level’ but for all the wrong reasons. The Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) carried a report which says that a Sussex-based (In England) 42-year-old woman, Victoria Richardson, went through the horrors of her belongings being burgled and then was taunted about the same by the thief who managed to access his victim’s Facebook page and posted messages about the dubious act. Interestingly, the brazen thief posted the mess...