In a major setback to the mail and online services provider Yahoo, Facebook has become the second most visited website on the internet. Google still remains at the top on the traffic ranking. These traffic rankings are provided by the Alexa, an Amazon.com company, which records the number of hits registered for each website on [...]

TIME magazine has announced the list of top 50 websites of 2009. According to the list published the hottest thing on the Internet is not social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, but Flickr-the popular photo-sharing portal – it has topped TIME’s list of the best 50 websites of 2009. One of the important trends [...]

Twitter, the free Social Networking and Micro Blogging service which has always been in news for last two years, is now all set to cross $1 billion Market Capitalization. Twitter, which has no discernible revenue, is set to raise about $100 million of new funding that would value the company at around $1 billion. This [...]

This month Yahoo has launched a microblogging site called Meme. According to Yahoo, “Meme is where you share everything you find that’s interesting”. A “meme” is commonly known in the web as some kind of content that spreads fast and draws everyone’s attention. It is almost similar to twitter and is currently available in Spanish [...]

According to the latest report published by The Nielson Company, Global Faces and Networked Places more than 67 % of internet visitors use social networks and blogs. Using Social networking sites and blogging has become the fourth most popular activity on internet which is ahead of checking personal email. Moreover, is the fastest growing internet [...]

Today Internet has turned 40. Forty years ago, a computer engineer called Len Kleinrock and his team gave birth to internet. On September 2, 1969, two computers send out some test data at Kleinrock’s lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. This is how internet came into picture. The Internet is actually the system [...]

Recently Internet Security major Norton Symantec has come up with a big list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which might infect your computer with malware, trojans or viruses. This list was compiled by Nortan Safe Web. It is a web site of Norton which analyses web sites’ security risks. In this list, most of the [...]

Today, Mozilla Corporation has released a new and better version of world’s most popular open source Web browser Firefox. This version of Firefox is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in more than 70 different languages. It is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform. According to Mozilla engineers the latest Firefox 3.5 [...]

Microsoft has replaced Live Search and MSN Search with a new search engine called Bing. It was presented to internet world on 28th May by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the All Things D conference in San Diego. However it went fully online on June 3, 2009. The word “bing” is an onomatopoeia, a word [...]

Now a days, almost every student uses the internet. It is not only the source of entertainment, social networking but also an effective learning tool. According to a latest survey by the marketing research company Greenfield Online, more than 50 % college students in the United States are surfing the Internet from their home and [...]

Recently I found a software package called BuddyPress. It is built on top of WordPress Multi-User as a plugin and was created by Andy Peatling. Using BuddyPress you can start your own social network site almost similar to Facebook, Orkut or MySpace. It allows a user to host a network of blogs on a site. [...]

India is one of the fastest developing countries of world. It is fourth largest economy of world. After the arrival of IT outsourcing businesses, India has emerged as the world leader in IT services. So, it has big pool of growing internet users. According to latest report of comScore, more than 28 million people in [...]

According to latest report released by Neilson online, social networking and blogging web sites account for almost ten percent of time spent on the internet which is even more than on email. Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, provides measurement and analysis of online audiences, advertising, video, consumer-generated media, word of mouth, commerce [...]

Today Internet has become part and parcel of our life. I can’t imagine a single day without internet. The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web. But have you [...]

Are you living in India? You don’t have internet connection. Then you have landed on right place, today I will tell you how to get internet connection in India. Today everybody knows about internet. Internet is just a simple way to bring the whole world inside your PC or laptop. Without internet a computer system [...]