Facebook becomes top ranked US site, beats Google
Facebook reached a very coveted milestone last week when it managed to surpass Google as the most visited website in the United States for the week.
Facebook reached a very coveted milestone last week when it managed to surpass Google as the most visited website in the United States for the week.
Don’t bother reaching for that calculator – that amounts to about 579 tweets a second.
Who would’ve thought a Facebook post could lead to a football player’s dismissal from his team?
Just like the “Facebook bra color” trend that hit the social networking site weeks ago, Facebook is now observing the “Doppelganger Week,” in which users change their profile pictures to photos of their celebrity look-alikes.
There is always a huge concern (not to mention risk) whenever a system opens up more of itself to the public, and this is no exception.
Microsoft unveiled today a preview of their latest changes to the MSN website which they are claiming to be their “most significant homepage redesign in over a decade”.
Online social networking heavyweight Facebook has, yet again, been tagged with criminal charges, this time for violating two registered patents from two separate companies. According to the charges against Facebook, the site is in violation of patents for providing “personal pages” and for tracking the relationships between people.
One look at Vkontakte.ru can spawn such a huge sense of deja vu.
Facebook has seriously been at the forefront of social networking website advances, so to speak, so it’s not surprising that they would serve as the benchmark and model for all future (and past) social net sites. However, it’s seriously just plain creepy how Russian net site Vkontakte.ru has been patterned to Facebook. And the best part is, they’re planning to launch at an international level.
Despite the ongoing recession, the social networking site continues to add big names to its company, which includes snagging talents from Yahoo!, Google, Six Apart and Genentech.
Massive tech critic site TechCrunch has divulged reports about confidential Twitter documents that they managed to get ahold of.