SocialSafe is an Adobe AIR application that allows users to backup their Facebook photos, profile information, friends and the photos they are tagged in. Facebook backup is not required for everyone, but if you upload lot of pictures or have a large friends and worried about losing your data if ... Read More →
Facebook lets users change usernames
Facebook recently enabled custom usernames for users that created a land rush for the same. Some might be wise to pickup a good username for their profiles, others might have picked up something that they don’t really like. if you are in the later league and you repent your choice you have a ... Read More →
Windows Live Planet: Social Network from Microsoft India
Windows Live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India. The details about the site like when it is launched are not available at this time but Liveside readers spotted the site from MSN India pages. ... Read More →
Facebook Vanity URLs
Facebook is preparing to launch Vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages, according to Facebook Blog starting this weekend users can have the Vanity URLs (user names) for their profiles. The usernames will be assigned on first come first served basis, so grab your favorite URL immediately as they ... Read More →
Yahoo 360 to shutdown on July 13
Yahoo 360 is a blog platform and a kind of social network from Yahoo that launched way back in 2005. But the service has never really taken off except in Vietnam, where they launched Yahoo 360 Plus. Yahoo announced that 360 will shutdown from July 13th of this year, earlier Yahoo announced the ... Read More →
BuddyPress: Create Social Network with WordPress MU
BuddyPress is a set of plugins for Wordpres mu, those will transform the multi user wordpress into a social network. BuddyPress is under development for quite some time, yesterday version 1.0 is out, like Wordpress it is released under GPL. ... Read More →
Microsoft Vine to connect with Family and Friends
Microsoft has released a social networking app designed to connect family and friends in difficult times called Vine. Vine is available as a dashboard application accessible with a windows live ID, it can also be accessed via mobile phones and email. ... Read More →
Get a custom URL for Google Profile
You can get a custom URL with your username for your Google profile, Amit noticed this in Google Profile. Although its nice to get your name or something you want for your Google Profile, you have no luck if you are a Gmail user. I don't know the login behind this but Gmail users can't get their ... Read More →
Orkut is the most popular social network in India
Royal Pingdom has some analysis on most searched social networks in various countries using Google Insights. The analysis is based on keywords, so it doesn't actually tell the popularity of a social network in a country, as search volume doesn't correlate well with the usage of the site. The ... Read More →
Send Orkut Scraps Via SMS from Your Mobile Phone
Orkut has added a useful feature in India and Brazil that allows you to send orkut scraps via SMS from your mobile phone. Using this feature you can receive SMS notifications or send scraps to your friends. This may not be available to all the users, if this feature is enabled for you, you will ... Read More →