Facebook has long hit the news for its controversial approach to online data privacy, with many people criticising the application for abusing users’ personal information. Earlier this month, Facebook came under fire by German officials, following claims that the social networking giants has gathered personal information from non-Facebook subscribers. (more…)

Yahoo! is set to launch new features that will push the integration of Yahoo.com and Yahoo! Mail with Facebook, the main aim behind the new features will be to encourage users to post actions taken on Yahoo! sites and other associated services – such as photography favourite Flickr – onto their Facebook wall. (more…)

Due to the unprecedented rise of such social networking behemoths as Facebook and Twitter it has been revealed that web users in the UK now spend an average of one full 24 hour day per month online, this is a massive 65 per cent increase from three years ago. (more…)

Facebook, now officially the largest social networking site on the internet, and Zynga, the company behind the incredibly popular Facebook game FarmVille, have fallen out over money issues. (more…)

As is often the case when changes are made to Facebook, the social networking giant has come under a lot of criticism as of late due to their new ‘instant privacy’ feature and other changes that they made in privacy settings. (more…)

Microsoft seem to have come to the realisation that there is no competing with Social Networking giants Facebook and Twitter so they have instead announce a tool that is able to aggregate all of a users social media activity into one place. (more…)

In a bid to lure people away from Apples ever growing iTunes music service Spotify have entered the social networking sphere. The company announced that it would be integrating its online music service with Facebook and Twitter. (more…)

Social network start-up Foursqaure are relative new comers to the scene but in an online world dominated by Facebook and Twitter they are doing surprisingly well. (more…)

Google Buzz launched earlier this year to compete with Facebook and Twitter in a social networking war that, lets face it, they have never really had a chance of winning. As seemed fairly inevitable at the time Google Buzz is still some way behind the main two in terms of users but Google have given themselves a boost by integrating their popular Google Maps service with their new social networking platform. (more…)

In response to Google’s recent release of their updated “Google Docs” office suite program, Microsoft and Facebook have joint forces to create a rival online document- sharing service that suspiciously looks a lot like Google’s mew software. (more…)

Big announcements were expected at Facebook’s F8 conference in San-Francisco this week and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking site, did not disappoint. (more…)

The site that Facebook designed for people with poor internet access has been shutdown. (more…)

According to reports Facebook will be announcing another redesign of a major feature on the site that is sure to be met with the usual distain by anti-change users. (more…)

The injection of social networking services into their own products seems to be a common theme amongst the internet’s big players. The integration of these kinds of services has become more and more common this year as ‘the big three’ (Yahoo, Microsoft and Google) all look to reach out to the burgeoning social networking community. (more…)