Don’t rule Windows Live Spaces out of the race for eyeballs on the social networking world just yet. Over the past year, the Redmond company’s online social hotspot delivered a consistent evolution in terms of the audience it managed to attract. According to Marketing Charts, and based on statistics compiled by Nielsen Online, Microsoft has gathered quite a crowd to Windows Live Spaces. At this point in time, Windows Live Spaces occupies the fourth position in the top 10 social networking sites for the U.S. market.
Nielsen Online revealed that Windows Live Spaces grew 8% in the past year. Between November 2006 and November 2007, the number of Windows Live Spaces unique users exploded from 8.8 million to 9.5 million, per month. But, in terms of the actual growth rate, Live Spaces outperformed the top social networking destination in the U.S. - MySpace.com. Read the rest of this entry »
We all know Facebook is a real phenomenon on the Internet but when it is accessed from other places than your personal computer, it instantly becomes a serious matter. Security company Sophos conducted a special research to find out how many employees access Facebook from work and how often they do it. No more than 37.2 percent of the total 500 Facebook users who answered the questionnaire said they access the social network website one or twice a day from their workstation, while 8 percent admitted they visit the page up to ten times a day. The juicy part is that 14.8 percent of the respondents said they are permanently connected to Facebook during their work time.
“The results show that more than one fifth of these Facebook users are actually Facebook abusers. They’re seriously struggling to tear themselves away from the website when they should be concentrating on their jobs - disturbing news for all organizations that are still allowing employees uncontrolled access,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos. Read the rest of this entry »
Following last week’s release of Google Maps Profiles, the Mountain View company gets more social by designing Facebook applications which are meant to integrate the giant’s technology into users’ profiles. Today’s utility is intuitively named ‘Google News Application for Facebook’, allowing Facebook registered members to get their favorite headlines straight into the profile pages. The configuration process is pretty rich, asking users to select from numerous categories including entertainment news, world news, business news or sports news. Moreover, you can filter all the stories by typing a specific keyword to get the articles based on that topic. Read the rest of this entry »
