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Thursday 30 June 2011

Google reveals social network to challenge Facebook


New York - Google Tuesday unveiled its new social networking service to take on Facebook.
The Internet search engine introduced Google+ social net for what it called 'real life sharing.



' To be available first by invitation only, Google said its social network will assemble the most basic human needs to connect with others.
Aiming to take gain of flaws in networking on Facebook, Google said, 'Today, the connections between people ever more happen online.




Google vs Facebook



Yet the detail and substance of real world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, individual way, online sharing is awkward.



Even broken. And we aim to fix it.''
It would offer options of networking, counting 'Circles' interface for adding friends and distribution 'what matters, with the people who matter most' and 'Hangouts' border for group video chat.



'The presentation of Google+ will test whether Google can beat its past flops in social networking, like Buzz and Orkut, and deal with one of the most pressing challenges facing the company,'' said the New York Times.



'In May, 180 million people visited Google sites, as well as YouTube, versus 157.2 million on Facebook, according to comScore.



But Facebook users looked at 103 billion pages and spent an average of 375 minutes on the site, while Google users viewed 46.3 billion pages and spent 231 minutes.



'Advertisers pay close attention to those numbers, and to the fact that people more and more turn to Facebook and other social sites like Twitter to ask questions they used to ask



Google, like a suggestion for a restaurant or doctor, because they want more personalized answers,'' the New York Times said.

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Facebook Rubbishes March 15 Shutdown, Its Rumors


Facebook responds to news report saying, "we are just getting started".











A tabloid called Weekly World News has develop into quite popular over the weekend after it published a news story regarding Facebook shutting down on March 15.



The reason for the shutdown was nonsensically cited as, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook "wanted his life back" and preferred "to put end to all the madness".



Zuckerberg is invented to have made this statement at a press meeting outside the social network's Palo Alto office.



The Tabloid, which is known for publishing fake news stories, seems to have tried a roll on the ever growing social network, Facebook.



"Facebook has gotten out of control," said Zuckerberg in a press convention outside his Palo Alto office," and the stress of managing this company has ruined my life.



I need to put an end to all the madness."



Facebook has crushed this silly rumor with a status message.



We didn't get the memo about shutting down, so we will keep working away like forever.



We aren't going anywhere, we are just getting started. Facebook Director of Corporate connections Larry Yu confirmed that the rumor is false.



In response to Mashable's mail about the shutdown, Yu responded, "The answer is no, so please help us put an end to this childishness."