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Twitter Launches Location-Based Trending Topics

Twitter has begun rolling out location-based trending topics. The product is officially called Local Trends. In a statement to us, Twitter said the following: “We’re rolling out local trends to 1 percent of users today, but we’ll share more information when it reaches a larger audience hopefully sometime next week. We’ll keep you posted when [...]

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Top 10 Most Popular Topics on Twitter This Week

What did people buzz about the most this week? Who was the singer that people tweeted the most about? What issue caught the world’s collective attention? Social media is not only a great medium for conversation, but it’s also an effective way to discover and analyze the popular topics of the day. By aggregating and picking [...]

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Google Wave Opens Up to 1 Million Users

When Google asked what you liked and disliked about their new real-time communication application, you unquestionably said that you wanted more invites to share with friends and family. Problem solved. Today, Google decided to play Santa with Wave invites. It has just doled out significantly more invites to existing users. In conjunction with the invite rollout, [...]

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Manage Successful Social Media Promotions

With holiday shopping in full swing, social shopping is already making a big impact. Data from Hitwise shows that downstream traffic to the Retail 500 coming from both Facebook and Twitter increased 36% and 15% respectively on Thanksgiving from the previous day. Downstream traffic to retailers grew again on Black Friday and Cyber Monday as [...]

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The King of Pop is the King of Google Search 2009

Bing and Yahoo have already released their lists of the most popular search terms of 2009, and now it’s time for the undisputed, heavyweight champion of search — Google, in the red trunks — to announce its rundown. In their annual Zeitgeist report, Google crowns “Michael Jackson” as the fastest rising search term, followed by “Facebook” [...]

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Facebook CEO: Prepare for Some Big Privacy Changes

In a rare open letter, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of privacy changes, starting with the removal of regional networks. Since its inception, Facebook has been based on networks. First, it was your college and university, then it was your city or region, and now it’s a combination of those, plus [...]

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Microsoft Launches its own Twitter in China

Microsoft has decided to capitalize on the popularity of Windows Live Messenger in China, launching a new service called MSN Juku, which they call a “local innovation developed by MSN China.” The service, however, is a lot like Twitter: It lets users connect with their other Live Messenger contacts and post 140-character messages. There’re a couple [...]

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Google Wave Invites Giveaway

TechGuruHere Team is giving away google wave invites to his visitors. Don’t worry invites will be given to all those who are active readers of our blog. Daily around 50 invites will be give away to our readers. For getting invite please post your email ids in the comments section. We will be giving them [...]

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Yahoo’s Newest Strategy: Lots and Lots of Facebook

With more than 350 million users, Facebook is winning the social networking race by a landslide. But another area they’re winning big (in large part due to that growth) is in portable identity, where their Facebook Connect platform competes with offerings from Google, Twitter and MySpace. Today, Facebook is getting a massive new partner for Connect: [...]

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Facebook Adding Half a Million New Users Every Day

It’s no secret that Facebook is humongous: 300 million users humongous. Yet it still shocks us that it keeps on finding new users to fuel its ascent into the social media stratosphere. A little over a year ago (August 2008), Facebook reached 100 million users. And now according to AllFacebook, that number is now [...]

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