Category Archives: Social Networking

Real Time Search – The Twitter Model

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under Search News, Social Media, Social Networking. Tagged , , . 1 Comment.
real-time-search

Think back, way back.  Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search?  How time flies.  Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it?

Google’s Open Social Platform

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 6, 2007. Filed under Open Source Software, Social Networking. No comments.

Google has announced the launch of the “Open Social” application initaitive which will allow developers to write application that can work across various social networking such as Linkedin, friendster, Google’s own Orkut.  This announcement is regarded by analysts as a defensive move towards Facebook’s mammoth growth in the past few month since it allowed developers to write applications [...]

Google My World – Another Second Life?

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on October 5, 2007. Filed under Social Networking. No comments.
Google My World - Second Life Competition

Google is reportedly building an avatar-based, Google Earth mashup, a virtual reality designed to compete against the likes of secondlife.com.  The rumoured name for this new virtual reality is though to be “MyWorld”. Similar to Second Life, “My World” would allow users to create an avatar of themselves, as well as build virtual homes, watch concerts, play [...]

Bebo & Yahoo! announce strategic partnership

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on September 13, 2007. Filed under Search News, Social Networking. No comments.
Bebo & Yahoo! announce strategic partnership

Yahoo! and Bebo, the UK’s largest social network, have forged an exclusive strategic partnership.  As a result, Yahoo! will sell the majority of Bebo’s display advertising in the UK and Ireland. This is Yahoo!’s first agreement of its kind with a social networking site, which will substantially increase the inventory available to it. This partnership [...]

Facebook Makes Profiles Public

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on September 10, 2007. Filed under Social Networking. No comments.

In another controversial move, Facebook has decided to make its members’ profiles public, meaning that search engines are now free to index the site and list the millions of profiles in its database and available for search engines users. However, Facebook did give its users the option to block search engines from indexing their profile. This controversial [...]