As we discussed before in the case of Google Wave, Google’s social networking initiatives seem to be in a complete free–fall. Google's Social Networking trend, Orkut which has always been successful only in the Indian and Brazilian markets, had over the past year or so stagnated in its growth. According to comScore, Facebook has finally surpassed Orkut to become the number 1 networking site in ... Full story

This is not a joke. Its true, The Tech Giants acting as if they “owns the internet”. Now i am saying about Facebook. First, they came for our privacy. Now, they want to take two very common nouns, too. From now on companies with names starting with "Face" could be in trouble. Or ending with "Book" may get a law suit from Facebook. Full story

After so many days of testing the new alpha version to invite-only users, the New Digg is here. Digg’s redesigned site is live for everyone. From now on you can join eNewsz on Digg. The new version of the Digg, the social news network focuses on the personalized news stream, “My News”, a new item on Digg shows stories dugg by users you choose to ... Full story

Ning, platform to build-your-own social networking service will switch to a paid-only model this Friday. While Ning has been growing steadily, it’s been struggling financially, laying off 42 percent of its staff in April. Full story

Facebook will be changing the layout of Facebook Fan Pages in the next couple of weeks and are giving Page administrators a heads up. Facebook actually made this announcement in October of 2009 and will begin the roll out the week of August 23rd. Full story

Those of you with several Gmail accounts, keep reading this post. Google officially announced multiple sign-in feature to Gmail, which will let users switch back and forth between Gmail accounts without going through the sign-in procedure. Full story

The one of the best webmail solutions available today, Gmail has been adding tons of features through Gmail Labs and other means. However, one of the most wanted thing missing in Gmail was Rich Text or HTML Signatures which would allowed users to add HTML text or images to their email signatures. Full story

After banning Chinese telecom equipment, the Government has now put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has offered a time period of 15 days to take appropriate steps for the same. If this does not happen, these services might be banned in India, Report says. Concerns have also been raised about the data services being offered ... Full story

Hackers bought down Google's Most famous video site, Youtube on Sunday by using a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Google has thwarted the attempts to hack You Tube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-sites redirects into it. The company has said the hole that hackers were using to corrupt the video site has been plugged. Full story

Happy 30th anniversary Pac-Man, Now you can give the birthday wishes through the Google Homepage. Beacause Google gets the Pac-Man effect on the eve of its 30th Birthday. If you haven't been to Google's homepage yet today, check it out now before it's gone. Hint: It didn't look this hip when it debuted 30 years ago today. Full story