The online community might be buzzing about Google Buzz these days but how long will the hype last without teaming up with the largest social networking site today?

Earlier this week, the search engine giant launched Buzz, an integrated social network embedded on Gmail, which allows users to post status and share multimedia files from photos to videos without switching to different tools.

If you are getting your multiple account names and passwords confused, then you are probably ecstatic about Google Buzz, which also connects users to other sites like Picasa, Flickr, Blogger and Twitter. continue reading…

In this age of by-the-minute status updates and massive multimedia sharing, you must be the stringiest hermit not to have one social networking account. But those loners and Luddites who refuse to Tweet or  friend you on Facebook have a valid excuse: it’s complicated, staying connected.

Aside from possible dubious reasons like evading the law or hiding several spouses from each other, social networking can be quite confusing, especially when you have to switch platforms every time you want to share content. continue reading…

When you’ve reached the top, there is nowhere else to go but down so Twitter executives are hoping they haven’t been there yet.

Early last year, Twitter was the toast of the online community, but things have changed for the popular microblogging site as its number of users has reportedly flatlined going to the end of 2009. continue reading…

Is Twitter going down? And is Blogging on the comeback? According to Erich Schonfeld of TechCrunch, Twitter—via their website Twitter.com—isn’t doing so well in the US and this is spreading across the world.

According to Schonfeld, comScore had estimated that Twitter had 58.3 million unique visitors worldwide for October but this was down from 58.4 million from the month before. The number of people from the US who visited Twitter had gone down for the first time in October by eight percent month-over-month to 19.2 million from 20.9 million in September.  continue reading…

Twitter’s flight to online popularity in such a short period has been phenomenal to say the least.

Along with its distinct lexicon such as tweet, tweeting, tweeps, tweeple, twitterati, etc., Twitter’s distinct icons and graphical elements have seeped into the consciousness of the online masses. continue reading…

If you’ve been glued to your computers long enough, you would have witnessed some of the major moments in the history of the World Wide Web – for the past ten years that is.

The leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, Webby Awards has already released what it considers the 10 most influential Internet moments of the 2000s. Drum roll please! continue reading…

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As the Internet grows more rapidly than the laws sanctioning it, people are learning to watch what they say online the hard way– through lawsuits.

People, even tech-challenged ones, are using the Internet, particularly social networks, to express their views about anything and everything under the sun. While this should be an upside, it’s also costing some people millions of bucks.

One example is musician and actress Courtney Love, who got sued in March by fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir for her allegedly libelous tweets. continue reading…

That giant of a timepiece by the Thames not only chimes but now tweets as well.

Big Ben, the world’s largest four-faced chiming clock is now on Twitter. Located at the Palace of Westminster in London, Big Ben was created by clockmaker Edward John Dent during 1854.

Now, at 150 years old, Big Ben has turned to Twitter to reach more fans across the globe. continue reading…