By Jane Gracielo, on April 29th, 2013% 
Google plans to shut down in June the Meebo Bar for receiving and sharing personalized content from websites in favor of Google+ tools for interaction between websites and users.
Google is planning to stop the further developments of the Meebo Bar to focus more in enhancing the Google+ tools.
Google acquired the company that made Meebo in June 2012. Aside from the Meebo toolbar that it has, they also incorporated it with advertisements, and social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Meebo also has their own IM application in desktop and smartphones.
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By Dora Tutor, on August 1st, 2012% 
Microsoft has a new offer to its supporters now. Their email service known as Microsoft Outlook is now on an upgrade and they named it as Outlook.com. This is not just an update to its free email service, but it’s also going to be a punch against its major competitor Google.
According to Microsoft, Outlook.com will be replacing the very famous Hotmail. On Tuesday, Microsoft declared the new email service, remarking that the revised webmail service is considered as an immense revamp, which permits the accounts to be coordinated across a variety of devices. This also consists of the combination . . . → Read More: Microsoft’s Outlook.com may be a tight rival for Google’s Gmail
By Jharma Mulchandani, on July 9th, 2012% 
The tour for the upcoming BlackBerry 10 was held in Hilton Hotel, Singapore. The session was exclusively for developers and unfortunately no cameras allowed.
According to a research of RIM, most of the BlackBerry users go to social networking sites daily, about 87%, and 26% of the users call or send SMS with others, around 50, weekly. This is indicating that this mobile platform is more social than the others.
According to some sources, the event featured some BlackBerry 10 feats and other stuff, even though there is still plenty of time for the . . . → Read More: Closed Door Tour of BlackBerry 10
By Jane Gracielo, on August 28th, 2011% 
Two-thirds of adult internet users now say they use sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and when asked for a single word to illustrate how they feel concerning their experience of social networking “Good” is the most common option.
The latest answer to emerge from the Pew Internet & American Life Project show that there has been a continued increase in the use of social networking sites over the six years from 2005. In 2005, 8 percent of internet-utilizing adults in the US – 5 percent of the entire adults in the United States- utilized social . . . → Read More: Adult Internet Users Say Social Networking is Good
By Jane Gracielo, on August 9th, 2011% 
Overuse of social networks in teenagers is linked to narcissistic possibilities, according to the research of some scientists.
A new psychological research said teenagers who spend too much time on social networks like Facebook are more probably to show narcissistic tendencies and show indications of other behavioral troubles.
The findings of the study were presented by Larry D. Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University, at the 19th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. In a talk entitled ‘Poke Me: How Social Networks Can Both Help and Harm Our Kids’, Rosen illustrated . . . → Read More: Overuse of Social Networking Sites Could Cause Narcissism, Study Says
By Jane Gracielo, on July 21st, 2011% 
The Internet world is abuzz with the Google+ chatter. Google+ is Google’s supposed Facebook killer.
“Supposed Facebook killer” may be a little forward but Google is absolutely fighting for market share in the social space, and while Facebook is the most obvious target, I believe LinkedIn and the professional community is a more rational ambition.
We need first to observe how Google+ is different from its generation.
The idea of “Circles” is a unique alteration from the usual things we see in several social networking sites.
Circles just proves that . . . → Read More: Google+ Could Be a Threat To Facebook and LinkedIn
By Jane Gracielo, on June 20th, 2011% 
According to a latest survey, Facebook users are further trusting of other people, have bigger quantities of close friends and display an advanced level of civic commitment.
The Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project discovered that the quantity of people on social networking locations has over doubled since 2008 and that people with Facebook accounts have a advanced level of social well-being than those with no Facebook.
Keith Hampton, a University of Pennsylvania professor and the lead author of the report said, the results which were based on a telephone investigation of 2,255 . . . → Read More: Facebook Users Tend to Get More Sociable
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