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‘Killed by Google’ is a digital graveyard remembering the company’s slain products

Google is well known for launching promising apps, hardware, and services and burying them just as they gain loyal, loving users. Take Google Inbox…

Security bug brings Google+’s death forward by four months

Google+, the company’s social network, will be killed off sooner than initially planned, after a security-threatening bug reared its ugly head last month. “We’ve…

Tumblr beats Instagram as fastest growing social platform, Facebook lags behind

Research published today by Global Web Index shows that blogging site Tumblr’s active user base grew in the last six months by 120% and…

From UseNet to Google+: A brief history of social networking

While Facebook shares seem as volatile as anything, one is left questioning how valuable social networking really is. As the poet and philosopher George…

It’s Startup Month at Memeburn

Every month is startup month at Memeburn, but we’re doing something special for the month of April. We invite you to let us know…

Facebook (finally) allows verified accounts

Facebook will start allowing public figures to verify their accounts and include pseudonyms from today, according to a report by TechCrunch. This means that…

Google profits soar while Google+ passes 40-million user mark

Google reports that its profit in the recently ended financial quarter climbed to US$2.73-billion on the back of soaring online advertising revenue. “We had…

Google+ rocketing since opening up to the public

In the week since Google took its brand new social network, Google+, public the network has seen a record number of signups. A recent…

Who the bleep are you?:The pros and cons of online anonymity

Anonymous has given anonymity a bad name. Pseudonyms, aliases, nom de plumes, all have lubricated social communication for centuries. Famously, several female authors wrote…

Google+: Now with games

Google has added games, including the wildly popular Angry Birds, to its exploding social network Google+. “We want to make playing games online just…

Google Realtime Search (kind of) makes a comeback with Google+

Google’s Realtime Search function is set to make a comeback, but with no tweets or Facebook status updates. It will, instead, be limited to…

Google+ the fastest-growing social network ever

Google is a latecomer to social networking but according to technology experts its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, Myspace…

6 tips to secure your privacy on Google+ [Infographic]

With around 20-million users making over a billion shares a day in the short time it’s been around, it certainly looks like Google+ is…

Users losing interest in Google+ as traffic drops, research firm reports

Google+‘s explosion into the social networking sphere may be slowing down, Bloomberg reports. While growth for the social network continues to grow in terms…

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