From Google’s search engine and Gmail, to YouTube videos and Android smartphones, chances are you use at least one (if not a dozen) Google products every day. Google announced yesterday that instead of maintaining over 70 different privacy policies for all of its products, it has condensed them into one over-arching policy that will cover everything Google owns starting 1 March.
If you’ve been surfing the Internet today you may have come across some websites that have been blacked out in protest of the SOPA Act going through the US Congress. With popular sites, including Wikipedia, WordPress, Redditt, Firefox, and The Oatmeal going dark for the day, it’s important that you know exactly what the bill means for the future of the Internet.
Rupert Murdoch, the 80-year-old media mogul, made headlines this week when he joined Twitter. But it wasn’t his joining social media that had people’s attention, it was the fact that he’d made the common faux pas of falling for fake Twitter accounts.
We’re always on the lookout for trends that appear online, and our social media experts have started noticing a buzz developing around branded social media sites. We’re not talking about branded social media profiles or Facebook apps, but entire social media networks built around one brand.
Although Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are today’s major social network sites, they are not the only ones worth talking about. And with 2011 quickly coming to an end, we thought we’d take this opportunity to give you a run down of some of the newest social networks creating an online buzz.
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