In the crowded field of web development and consulting service providers the most successful platforms often use their own pre-built software and frameworks to build social websites for their clients. This competitive advantage makes it difficult for small design consultants and hosting providers to attract customers who want their own online communities, as they often [...]

Former professional wrestler The Iron Sheik, right, and comedians Loni Love, and Chris Hardwick represent together after speaking on a panel together for 140: THE Twitter Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009. Twitter is a matter of trends Tuesday – and not just on Twitter. Real people were physically gathered at the [...]

Social Media Facebook community on Thursday revealed through his blog developer is releasing an open source, web server framework designed for developers to create applications that allow users to send status updates in real time. Entitled Tornado, open source technology web server is written in the Python language and is able to process thousands of [...]

Search engine, Google, has launched new gizmos engineered to leverage Opensocial to all iGoogle users in the U.S, including methods to share content, play games and work on the iGoogle page. Some examples of the new social gadgetry include:. With the Flixster gadget, users can rate and review pictures or browse what films their buddies [...]

Just about one year after the Georgia-Russia war started, Twitter suffered about three hours of down time on early Thu. while Facebook and LiveJournal also suffered short lived outages. Though it has still not been confirmed who is behind the assault, Facebook told UK’s Guardian and BBC Reports that it believes the Russian presidency ordered [...]

A few social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal suffered passing outages early Thu. morning after being hit by a denial-of-service attack, according to the site’s operators. The site shortly confirmed that it was experiencing a DDos attack and reported at 11:21 am EST that it had resumed service. Netcraft and Pingdom both let [...]

Dear Person Who Continually Tweets About What she or he Is Eating For Breakfast,. Now go drown your sorrows in a bottle of delicious maple syrup that you’re about to pour on that giant heap of blueberry pancakes. “Helping folk access Twitter in more applicable and helpful techniques on first introduction lowers the barrier to [...]

An established spammer may probably serve jail time re a Facebook suit after a California judge ordered him to appear in front of the US solicitor General’s Office for criminal events. The case follows another Facebook spamming case last Nov , when the company won a $873 million governing against a Montreal spammer that flooded [...]