Though Twitter's experiencing the fastest growth in India, Facebook moved passed Google's Orkut into the No. 1 slot for social networking there, with 20.9 million visitors in July, a 179% increase over July 2009, reports IBN Live in India, citing comScore findings. Twitter grew 239% year over year, while Orkut grew just 16% in India this past year. According to IBN Live, "more than 33 million … [Read more...] about Facebook passes up Orkut in India
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For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Facebook's now taking off there, but Brazil has had a vibrant, more mainstream social networking scene for some time, maybe even longer than the US has – because of Google's Orkut. When danah boyd's new article about class divisions in US social networking reached Pedro Augusto of Brazil's Center for Technology & Society in Rio, he emailed her about how this works in his country; she posted … [Read more...] about For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Facebook adds ‘Places’: Cellphone location service
I'm sure you've heard about Foursquare, a game and geolocation app that lets people "check in" to their favorite spots virtually when they're walking in physically. Well, Facebook now has a geolocation app like that called "Places," so users can use their cellphones to let their FB friends know where they are (only in the US at this point). In addition to checking in, FB users can "see who else … [Read more...] about Facebook adds ‘Places’: Cellphone location service
Moms’ tech concerns & countermeasures: Survey
To me, the most interesting slide in the BlogHer/Parenting magazine national survey of moms is the one about the difference between their fears vs. their kids' experience of what they fear: Mothers' biggest concern, quite naturally, is inappropriate communications with an adult online (62% share this concern), but only 1% of moms surveyed said their kids had experienced such communication. Next … [Read more...] about Moms’ tech concerns & countermeasures: Survey
2 new kids’ social spaces: ToonsTunes, Scuttlepad
One is both feature- and media-rich, the other plain & simple. Both aimed at under-13s, they're social in different ways (one a virtual world, the other a social network site). Toonstunes.com Surfing through ToonsTunes's information pages, demo videos, and kid-created music videos indicates to me that this is a great addition to the kid virtual world lineup – especially for young music … [Read more...] about 2 new kids’ social spaces: ToonsTunes, Scuttlepad