Showing posts with label orkut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orkut. Show all posts

Friday, November 23, 2007

Social Networking Sites- Your electronic footprint....beware


Many young people are publishing there content online without thinking about the electronic footprint they leave behind.

Posting information on a websites such as Orkut, Facebook and Dekoh could come back to haunt millions of young people. The youngsters do not realize that the information they are posting on these websites make them traceable in the future. They even didn’t realize it, the information they are posting could be permanently linked to them.

Increasing number of education institutions and employers are using the internet as a tool to find potential employees and potential students. The cost to a person’s future can be high if something undesirable is found by them on these sites.

Millions of new pieces of information being added to the internet every day, many of them are very much personal, but this information are available for the entire world through search engine and social networking site.

As per the statement by senior executive at Facebook, that his company viewed privacy as a major issue. But I think this is not true, recently Facebook announced there new product "Facebook adds", in that he is going to share your personal information to the merchants, and give you specific adds according to your published information.

However, the popularity of websites such as Facebook and MySpace is increasing, It may be fun, but unfortunately it is not safe space…

Be aware...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Skyrocketing value of online communities


It’s surprising about Microsoft corp’s investment in Facebook Inc. - $15 billion for 3 ½ year old internet hangout, or the rare shun of online leader Google Inc.

Microsoft paid $240 million price for 1.6% stake in Facebook. This clear the view, world largest software maker, crudely wanted to deepen its relationship with a startup that didn’t have $200 million in annual revenue.

By stamping the deal, Microsoft had loosed previous high-stake biding battles to taking stake in AOL, internet ad service DoubleClick Inc, and taking the ownership of online video sharing pioneer YouTube. Microsoft finally cooked-up Google by taking the stake of Facebook Inc.

Microsoft’s investment, increase the value of online communities like Facebook, Orkut – a place where people look for dates, share music videos and photos, connect with family and friends.

News corp. in 2005 paid $580 million for outright ownership of MySpace.com. Microsoft established the current market value of Facebook to $15 billion, by his investment in the same.

Although Myspace remains the largest social network, while there is so many social site for different activity, like Digg (community-based popularity website), delicious (social bookmarking), Dekoh (Sharing photo, music, books etc direct from there desktop without uploading), Flicker (photo sharing), Orkut (social interacting website) and many more….

Google’s current social network (Orkut) has seen relatively good success on the globe.

32 year old company Microsoft becoming more internet savvy by his successful courtship of Facebook.