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The Social Networking War Begins..
On Thursday 22ndSeptember, Facebook held their F8 Developers conference in San Francisco. The conference was led by a keynote from none other than Mark Zuckerberg himself in which he previewed the latest revamp to his social network. With competition from Google+ and the common issue of social networks behaving much like fads, Zuckerberg wants to keep Facebook on top of the networking game and has introduced many new features and a complete new look for the website to keep users interested. Some of the many changes Facebook will introduce in the coming weeks are: New-look News Feed complete with Cover Photo, Timeline feed and even further integration with various Apps like Spotify and Netflix. Read the rest of this entry
Google+ the next Facebook?
Google launched their latest project Google+ recently and the tech world is buzzing with various comments and reviews on Google’s latest development. But many question how will Google+ survive in the social networking universe with such big competitors like Facebook and Twitter dominating the internet. Google thought of this very carefully after failures with Google Buzz and Google Wave, Google focused on the aspects of social networking which are popular with users and they have even taken the disadvantages of social networks like Facebook and found solutions with their latest social project Google+. Google+ interface is quite similar to that of Facebook where users have the same sort of layout with their profile and wall to which they can see all the latest with their friends but the main advantage Google+ has over Facebookis its unique use of ‘Circles’. Read the rest of this entry
