This category lists all non-US social media sites and the related news. If you are aware of any international social media network worth a mention, please let us know!
Although the concept is incredibly popular, and gaining more and more followers every day, social media web activity differs drastically from one country to the next. How much it differs, however, is about more than just the obvious…
For starters, there is the difference in access to Internet. In many countries, owning a computer is merely a dream for… Read more
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are aware that Google stopped censoring content on it’s Chinese version of Google. Not only that but it began redirecting searches to the Hong Kong version of the website.
There are three things I cannot stand, someone who steals from the elderly, someone who steals from a child and someone who steals from the unfortunate. Yes I don’t like stealing at all, I despise it actually, but these three require a special place in hell.
Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year.
Social media may have begun with a strong preference toward the social aspect, but the other half of its namesake has shown to be prevalent in more recent times. Many used to see the various sites, applications and services of social media as toys, but its pervasive presence in the events ongoing in Iran at this very moment seem… Read more
The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many… Read more
Odnoklassniki.ru (translated as ‘classmates’), Russian most popular social networking site, has been in the center of information privacy scandal.
