Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format. This week: Orkut is India’s Most Popular Social Network -- comScore Yammer Launches Downloadable Version Facebook Climbs Down in TOS Row One in Ten Internet Users now on ...

Filed under: Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG) One of the market's biggest criticisms of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is that it offers a large number of products that don't make the company money. To make matters worse, some of these offerings will probably never bring in a dime and that is a big drag o...

I should tell you, the good ‘ol early millennium formula - scrap-add-friend-chat-meet-kiss doesn’t bear fruits these days on orkut, my friend. All of the single and looking as well as the single looking variety have fled to a new playground christened as the “Facebook.” It’...

∑∑∑ Post from: nababu.org Instalei no nababu.org o tal Google Friend Connect. Até onde sei, ele serve para criar uma rede social, uma espécie de Orkut entre blogs, transformando cada blog em uma comunidade. É possível usar na rede o login do Google, do Orkut, do Plaxo e até...

After over two months of silence from polldaddy where their last offering was the Twitter enabled polldaddy polls and 3 competitors (Quibblo, Poll Boutique and Poll Authority) have raised into the blog poll widget niche against them. Polldaddy surprises with the answer to that new competitors and mo...

It’s time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views. I believe an effective way to value a particular user is based on the average Internet advertising spend per person in the country they live in. The higher the spend, the more va...

Possibly the most important characteristic of web giant Google is their ability to think and act big. Thinking big is really hard to do but has made them the most successful web company in history. Google, the name, refers to the word Googol meaning 10100 which is a huge number. The name itself sugg...

I am seeing Community Recommendations on my Orkut Page. Probably it is old news but it is new for me (I hardly use Orkut) The recommendations are based on 1) If I have many friends belonging to that Community (and I have not joined it) 2) If I am part of a similar community (I guess) Here is the off...

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO CENTRE 9 — Where are the girls? An event producer and I both nervously paced through the lobby. Where was Marissa Mayer? The Google executive had rented a theater for the 8:50 screening of Sex and the City...

Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra would need no introduction to most of you. For those of you, who need to know more about their mantra and its origins, there are hundreds of online articles that explain the same. While Google has enjoyed immense PR and popularity riding on the back of ...