According to Experian Hitwise, Facebook, the social networking giant, overtook Google for the first time for the top searched term in 2010. Facebook was not only the most searched term of the year, but it passed Google as most-visited website in 2010 for the first time and accounted for 8.93 percent of all U.S. visits in 2010 (January – November) . It conquered Google (7.19%), Yahoo Mail (3.52%), Yahoo (3.30%) and YouTube (2.65%) to claim [...]

In recent weeks, the internet witnessed its “first world war” after WikiLeaks leaked out top secret US Documents to public. It sent shock waves around the world with several intelligence secrets being revealed. There was furore among various government organisations with the Pentagon branding WikiLeaks to be “Threat to their national security” and the British Government arresting the main man behind WikiLeaks – Jullian Assange on rape charges. Some people who were against this whistle-blowing [...]

In our previous post - Online Coding Zones for Programmers, we listed down online coding competitions for programmers to compete in. We are trying to follow up our readers with other such online coding competitions and we couldn’t miss the latest competition announced by Facebook. Yesterday Facebook announced  a new multi-round programming competition called – Hacker Cup. Following their other hacking competition Hackathon, “The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against [...]

Today at Facebook event in Palo Alto, Mark Zuckerberg announced that users will now be able to download their information directly from facebook into your hard disk. Zuckerberg said: “People own and have control over all info they put into Facebook and “Download Your Information” enables people to take stuff with them,” Now people have that option to back up your pictures, videos, messages , wall posts, friend lists and all other information which was [...]

Diaspora, an open-source Facebook competitor, made its first source codes available to general public on 15th September, 2010.

Google Instant, According to Google it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.  Google along with a group a people think it to be a major advancement in the search field where as there is a group of people who think Google should be focused on better search results, not gimmicks. Ever since Google Instant was made live in the US and UK with some other countries, the discussions have geared up. Discussion between these [...]