As a Valentine’s Day experiment, Facebook looked at the top 10 songs users are listening to as they make new relationships “Facebook official” or announce recent breakups on the social network. The Facebook Data Team looked at songs U.S. users played on Spotify after changing their relationship statuses. Among lovebirds on Facebook, Jason Derulo takes the top spot with his hit "Don't Wanna Go Home". When users fall in love they feel like celebrating, so along with romantic songs like "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars, users also play songs like "No Sleep" by Whiz Kalifa. "The Cave" by Mumford
Read MorePinterest has exploded onto the social networking scene, amassing 13 million users, by some estimates, in just 10 short months. But while it's well known that the vast majority of users in the United States are women with an interest in arts, crafts and events, UK users are surprisingly different. Here's how Pinterest users in the United States compare to those in the UK. Check out the visual breakdown below compiled by Visual.ly sheds light on the interesting differences between U.S. and British Pinterest users.
According to Experian Hitwise “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011. This was the third year in a row that Facebook topped the list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1% of all searches in 2011, a 46% jump over last year, the researcher reports. However, if you take into account four variations of Facebook — Facebook, Facebook.com, Facebook Login and www.facebook.com — the social networking giant’s share of the top 50 searches was 3.48%, an increase of 33%. The four terms also appeared in the top 10: #1. Facebook #2. YouTube #3. Facebook Login #4. Craigslist #5. Facebook.com #6. Yahoo #7. eBay #8. www.facebook.com #9. Mapquest #10. Yahoo.com Looking at the
Read MoreHow do Chinese connect online? On their own series of social networks, mimicking several blocked foreign counterparts. Renren and Kaixin001 fill Facebook’s void. Sina Weibo is the microblog of choice in Twitter’s absence. Youku is a video hosting platform, which only loosely enforces copyright laws; think of it as a YouTube-meets-Hulu, because many popular TV shows and movies are posted freely. Jiepang is the most popular location-based mobile app, with Foursquare-style checkins. This infographic, created by G+ (not to be confused with Google+), takes a look at China’s answer to social networking. Of the country’s half billion Internet users, half of
Read MoreTechCrunch reported that Facebook has released a desktop messenger client for Windows 7 that brings you access to the site's chat, ticker feed and notifications without everyone in the office spotting the blue-bar-of-lost-productivity across the top of your browser. There is no public download link, and the client is only compatible with Windows 7, though it was developed entirely by Facebook and does not constitute a new partnership with Microsoft.
Arrived new app (web, iOS - iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad Wi-Fi + 3G, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G) which instead of checking in, paves the way for you to simply “arrive.” It automatically checks you into locations based on your phone’s GPS data and tells friends that you’re there. Works on straightforward logic - You select locations which can be as specific as an address or as broad as a country, these addresses are for which you’d like to alert friends of your presence. You add friends from your phone book (Facebook friends coming soon) to
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If you want to explore popular Facebook shares on your own, check out Fmeme "Hottest Links on Facebook" launched by private banker Oliver Cohen. Because Facebook is designed in such a way that, it automatically surfaces the most interesting content coming into your individual stream. What it doesn’t do is go out and look at all of the content on Facebook and show you whats cool or interesting. Fmeme is developed to show the great things that can be accomplished using the Facebook API and its social plug-ins. Fmeme ala Digg, but instead of Diggs it tracks Facebook likes and scrapes
Read MoreGoogle's Social Search may have to make room for an extra guest at the table, now that Microsoft has leaked the homepage for what looks like a new social service of some sort. Fusible first discovered the page sitting at socl.com, a domain that Microsoft recently purchased. Known as Tulalip (also the name of a group of Native American tribes near Redmond), the project promises to help users "find what you need and share what you know easier than ever" which, at this early stage, is pretty difficult to do, considering that the page's search field is non-functioning. The platform
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