Tag Archives: Yahoo

Facebook Is The Fastest But YouTube Is The Most Reliable

by Shabbir Akhtar on 14. Apr, 2011 in Facebook, Twitter

Facebook again tops, this time in terms of average response time. Alertsite’s recent quarterly report shows that Facebook is the fastest of all social networks. In the last quarter of 2010, Facebook’s average speed was 1.06 seconds, which is the time the social network happened to take to load. In the first quarter of 2011, [...]

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Yahoo Plans To Discontinue Buzz

by Shabbir Akhtar on 05. Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized

Yahoo has decided to discontinue Yahoo Buzz from April 21, 2011. On their official page, Yahoo team posted, “Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us [...]

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Facebook To Cross Yahoo In Display Ads Revenues In 2011

by Shabbir Akhtar on 01. Mar, 2011 in Facebook, insights

In 2011, the largest share of the display ads in United States will go to the social networking giant, Facebook. eMarketer published a report that shows Facebook’s income from display ads in 2011 will touch $2.19 billion and their overall growth in display ad revenue will be more than 80 percent. The most interesting part [...]

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Login To Flickr With Your Facebook Account

by Shabbir Akhtar on 22. Jan, 2011 in Facebook

It was October 2010 when Flickr, the photo sharing site and one of the most celebrated products of Yahoo allowed users to log into the service using their Google IDs. That was not surprising as Google is the largest internet identity provider. But, Facebook is going strong, has over 600 million users and is expected [...]

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Yahoo To Allow Users To Sign In Using Facebook and Google IDs

by Shabbir Akhtar on 20. Jan, 2011 in Facebook

Yahoo is turning to its “greatest competitor” to save its dying race. In the official blog, Andy Y Wu, the product manager of Yahoo Membership announced that they are opening third-party user authentication with Facebook and Google across the Yahoo Network. Henceforth, from now on, all those who have accounts in Google or Facebook would [...]

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