Social Tech Category

In 2011, Google+ opened its doors to President Barack Obama, with the president advancing his causes and promoting his campaigns. This January, the White House has also officially joined Google’s social network.

Google has been simplifying and streamlining its core services, and many of these efforts are being done toward the aim of making the user experience more social. With this, Google has announced that its Google+ social networking service has passed the 90 million user mark.

Facebook held a special media event today to unveil a new addition to its Timeline feature, the Open Graph, which will bring app integration to your Facebook Timeline. The company is very interested in applications, as we already know. and its partners are probably equally interested in tapping that 800+ [...]

Social networking is no longer just about sharing photos, videos or status updates. With the prevalence of cloud-based multimedia services, the social network now lets users listen to songs simultaneously with the new “Listen with friends” feature.

Twitter has become an important medium for artists and consumers of multimedia alike. Twitter has recently partnered with an online service that mines data from the Twitter stream for relevant information and updates on artists for use on mobile apps.

Facebook is running its second annual Hacker Cup, which aims to bring together the world’s top independent developers to solve problems and win prizes. Registration runs through January, and the first problem set will be launching at the last week of the month.

Everyone has secrets. While secrets are meant to be kept, a growing community has been exchanging secrets online anonymously for about seven years now. But while the PostSecret iPhone app has actually been on the top-selling list on the App Store for the past few months, the app has had [...]

SMS is on the decline, at least in some parts of the world. This recent holiday season has marked a decrease in SMS messages sent, amid what is considered the busiest days in SMS. Should carriers be worried?

Facebook is going beyond the web and mobile devices. In releasing its official messenger application for Windows 7, the social network brings messaging access to users even outside of the web interface.

Google+ is growing fast, gaining more than half a million sign-ups each day. At this rate, Google’s social network is not likely to surpass Facebook in terms of user base anytime soon, but will still get significant numbers through 2012.