Facebook Social Plugins span across 100,000 sites

The FaceBook Social plugins which enable users to add FaceBook’s Social Features without needing the users to log-in have just crossed the 100,000 mark.

The FaceBook social plugins are increasing their presence in many websites with about 50,000 websites adding them in the first week of launch itself.

Skype planning to allow advertisements

Skype, the popular Internet Telephone Service, is considering launching third party advertising on its service. In an interview with the UK magazine The Telegraph, Skpe Ceo announced.

Skype has been allowing its users Free Skype to Skype calls which also allows users to have a video chat.

“Pit Bulls aren’t weapons”, PETA to Mafia wars!

Animal right activists aren’t happy with the usage of pit-bulls as weaponry in the virtual arsenal of the Mafia Wars Facebook Game.

The animal organization PETA(People for Ethical Treatment for Animals) isn’t pleased with pit-bulls in the game and has written a letter to Marc Pincus, CEO of the California based game developer, Zynga.

Social media’s power to make or break

Breakups are announced on Twitter, the common man keeps in touch with his favorite super stars and leaders through Twitter, love and hatred is expressed on Twitter. Justifications and accusations are made on Twitter. Just what not is a part of twitter? And why everyone including me uses the word “Twitter” too much these days?

Google To Undergo Redesign

Google is all set to launch its redesigned search page today. India will be observing the change somewhere in the evening. With Microsoft’s Bing in intense competition and Yahoo’s recent changes to provide an effective search Google is not staying back and still wants to maintain its numero uno.

Gulf of Mexico oil spill captured on Google Earth

The fatal explosion of oil from the offshore rig Deep water Horizon two weeks ago is still a matter of great worry for America, environmentalists and the entire U.S. Gulf Coast.

Is Internet Explorer losing its market? Again

We all know what Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Apple Safari are. Where Internet Explorer was the earliest internet browser, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox arrived much later.

And what the user reports in 2010 are, let us analyze.

Gmail will soon be back in UK!

The citizens of UK, who were earlier users of ‘googlemail’ and not ‘gmail’ like us, now have a reason to be glad. They will soon be accessing ‘gmail’ like the rest of us. On May 3, 2010, Google announced that they would start to phase out the googlemail.com domain in the UK.

Top 5 Revenue Channels for blogs and websites

Advertising is the most popular choice for online revenue mostly because it will help to maintain the quality of the service as customers will be provided services free of charge and service providers also earn for their hard work. There are many successful stories about how people make money online. Although most of them are fake, there are a few that actually are true. It’s no secret that big daddies like Google, Yahoo etc are oil companies of the Internet and make billions of dollars a year. This have transformed the lives of founders, investors and people who have involved from the start. But what about common people like us. The big companies like Google have been kind enough to let us have have a share of the huge industry.  The following channels are largely a trial and error method and you need to keep on refining your channel mix to get the maximum revenue for your blog or site.

Digital Sky Technologies Limited acquires ICQ from AOL

Media giants AOL Inc and Digital Sky Technologies Limited (DST),the largest Internet company in Eastern Europea and Russia entered an agreement for DST to acquire ICQ – the leading instant messaging service for $187.5 million.