Oden's Temple » social networks

ICQ 7 Integrates All Your Social Networks to One Platform!

digg.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:00:03 +0000

ICQ 7 today offers integration of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Flickr and is soon to announce the integration of local social networks. Users no longer need to open a browser and log into each and every network they're members in, from now on it's all in their ICQ.

Google Social Search Disappears

digg.com — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:30:02 +0000

Google Social Search, launched in late October as an experimental way to combine your social networks with Google’s search results, has mysteriously disappeared today.

How Skype Can Quickly and Easily Become a Social Network

digg.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:00:03 +0000

Because of already established business model Skype doesn’t need to sell advertising, which means that it doesn’t need to infringe on users’ privacy by turning their personal information into a salable commodity for advertisers — in my mind the fundamental flaw of web-based social networks.

Got friends? Now you can thank Facebook

digg.com — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:10:02 +0000

A study released this week found that people who use social networks like Facebook and MySpace tend to socialize more with neighbors and friends when away from the computer screen.

Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace

digg.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:00:02 +0000

Social networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos. The simple coding errors are alarming considering the extent to which social networks have gone to reassure their users that their data will be safe. The problem involved....