Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

How Social Networking Sites Influence Our Life

As we all know what is a social networking site and the examples for such sites are Orkut, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. These are the four major social networking sites that have spread like a disease all over the world not only in cities and towns but also even in some remote villages. This is [...]

Facebook Completes Acquisition of Octazen

Facebook, the leader in social networking has acquired a Malaysian Internet based company, Octazen last week, but did not disclosed the amount of the acquisition. Facebook announced the acquisition in a statement sent via email to reporters and described it as a ‘talent acquisition’. Octazen is the company who develops software that helps Facebook grow [...]

Will Facebook React to Buzz?

Google has recently launched their social networking component embedded into their free web based Gmail called Google Buzz. Although this has been seen by industry analysts as a way to compete with Facebook and Twitter, I’m looking it at a different perspective. As Google tries to grab as much information on the web and let [...]