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Google+ Opens Up To Teens, Safety Features In Place

Google+, the fastest growing social network of all time, has announced that starting today, Worldwide, they're open to teens. Previously, you had to be 18 or over to join the site, but that has changed. Teens are a ... continue

Google Launches New Sign Up Form, Better Optimized For Google Plus

Google has released a new version of their sign up form which, while much more visually entertaining to look at, also looks to do away with anonymous accounts. The first two fields ask for your full name ... continue

Google+ Now Has 90 Million Users, Over Half Use It Daily

Google+, the tech giant's answer to a social network, is doing very well and according to Larry Page, CEO, extremely good. Today, Google had its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2011. Google Plus aside, the company ... continue

Google+ Membership Soars As Site Leaves Private Beta

Last week Google+ ditched their invite-only policy, opening up the floodgates for everyone to join the site and now it's being reported that Google has witnessed a 1,269% increase in the number of users taking advantage of ... continue

Latin America is Totally Hooked with Social Networking (Just Like Everyone Else)

The Latin American social networking audience grew by 16 percent last year, according to The Rise of Social Networking in Latin America from comScore. The total time spent on social networking sites in the region has also ... continue

At least one ‘social network’ gets you don’t need a kitchen sink as StumbleUpon cuts the fat

Wow, so Facebook is bringing us an incredible new world of being social and everyone seems willing to fall for their 'kitchen sink' approach to making you believe that they can provide everything you need so you ... continue

Facebook Video Calling Becomes Reality, Launches For 750 Million Users

Facebook on Wednesday announced their newest feature Video Calling. The program, which incorporates Skype technology and allows users to chat one-on-one is available for immediate use by all of Facebook's user base. The program according to Facebook CEO ... continue

Color me stupid but I don’t get Color

If you managed to pull yourself from what ever rock you like to hide away in to get away from the endless hype that happens in the tech blogosphere you might have heard of some new mobile ... continue

Apple’s Ping does Facebook. Oh wait, no it doesn’t. Oh wait yes it will – soon, maybe

At yesterday's big Apple event that was live streamed to only those people lucky enough to own a Mac, iPhone or iPad one of the big announcements was the launch of the company's music social network called ... continue

Bebo gets sold – no-one cares

Remember the English social network called Bebo? No? Not surprising since its only real claim to fame was that Aol lost its mind and bought it for $850 back in 2008 and from there returned to an even worse ... continue

Our data will always be misused

There is this Utopian viewpoint propagated by the social media mavens that while our personal data is one of our more important processions; both on-line and off-line, but we should feel safe with letting it become the property of companies and ... continue

Twitter Userbase Skews Toward Older Crowd, Data Suggests

We're hearing a lot about the explosion of Twitter into mainstream culture these days. The site's traffic has grown more than 700 percent worldwide in the past year. Some new data suggests the majority of Twitter's users, ... continue

Environmental Social Network Launches With Lofty Goal

A new social network is launching this morning with the goal of helping you reduce your carbon footprint. Save The Planet And Win, opening publicly in beta mode today, lets you calculate the environmental damage you're doing ... continue

Teen Social Network To Get Label-Supported Streaming

A major record label has struck a new social networking deal -- with a teen-targeting twist. Universal Music Group (UMG) is partnering with teen-friendly site Kiwibox to create a new streaming service, the two companies will ... continue

This Twitter Feed Brought To You By…

Get ready for the professional Twitterer. A third-party advertising platform is opening the door to individual social network sponsorship -- and, in doing so, signaling the start of the user-based monetization of Twitter. TwittAd lets you implement ... continue

Will “Following” Give Blogger a Boost?

Google's hoping to pack more punch into its Blogger publishing platform with a soon-to-be-added ability to have FriendFeed-style "followers" on your blog. The feature will look familiar. Anyone with a Google account, it seems, can ... continue

Is Social Media Useful or just Ego-Boost?

With the rise of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn comes a rise in a market designed to "teach" companies how to leverage social media sites for business purposes. But aside from marketing initiatives, are ... continue

Lifehaps: The Social Networking Timeline

A new startup is trying to take social networking up a notch by providing a graphical timeline of your life. Lifehaps gives you the ability to plot out all your life's events -- ranging from your birth to ... continue

Online Social Networks Now Playground for Hackers

Computer security researchers warned that social networking websites are playgrounds for hackers, AFP reports. The report added that hackers are taking advantage of people's trust, especially with the open platform that social networks employ, a trend started ... continue