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India's election campaigns get Net-savvy
News Politicians take to cyberspace to campaign and rally voters for India's upcoming elections, but online reach will be limited in country, say market watchers.
Tags: Politics, Local Government, Web sites, Web 2.0, Twitter, Politician, Mobile, India, Orkut.com, Youth
Web portal for sale, slightly used
News Spanish Internet company Terra Lycos has retained investment bank Lehman Brothers to explore a possible sale of its U.S. Internet business, including its flagship Lycos.com Web site, according to a document obtained by CNET News.com.
Tags: Web sites
Report: Facebook is beating MySpace worldwide
News For the first time, the Mark Zuckerberg-founded social network has passed its bigger corporate rival in global visitors--but it still lags behind in the United States.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, India, social networking, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., Silicon Valley
Facebook looks to India
News A little late to the subcontinent, Facebook is now pushing hard to win over Indians by adding Hindi and five other local languages.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services, Mobile, India, Orkut.com, Indonesia, social networking, Facebook, hiring
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Programmers in India prefer Google's Orkut
News A new survey shows that more software developers in India are choosing Orkut over Facebook and MySpace.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Software engineering/development, Google Inc., India, Orkut.com, Programmer, Evans Data Corp., software programmer, social networking
Websense: Google's Orkut being used to spread Trojans
News Spam message on Orkut is disguised as an official e-mail from the social-networking site, but the links in the message lead to Trojans, says the security vendor.
Tags: Network security, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Orkut.com, Websense Inc., News.com, network, trojan horse, blog, Web Site
Twitter page used to pass malware
News Microblogging site becomes a vector for people using social engineering to spread malware.
Tags: Security, Web logs, Twitter, Malware, Web Browser, Orkut.com, photo album, photograph, researcher, blog
