Social Networking Sites – William Gail Blog

It’s almost the end of 2009 and we have yet to see who leads the race track in the most popular, the most effective and the most functional innovations of the year.

In the social networking world, It’s Facebook again! After taking its toll in the world wide web since 2004, Facebook has proven to be most prominent social networking site in five years. With over 350 million users worldwide, Facebook continues to rise its fame in the industry.

This is evidenced by an Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza’s visual mapping of the social networking sites used worldwide. He gathered his data from the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured by Alexa & Google Trends for Websites.

The world map of social networking sites, deliberately identifies the dominance of Facebook anywhere in the globe as compared to other social net sites. It is seconded by Facebook clone Vkontakte.ru, which has blocked Facebook from establishing its name. Vkontakte.ru is the most and perhaps the only popular social net site in Russia.

Other social networking sites that have remained its control over certain countries included Hi5 in Peru, Portugal, Romania, Thailand and Mongolia; QQ is still ahead of everyone else in China, with an expected estimated increase of users to 840 million in 2013.

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Social networking sites have become mobile. It is now very common that you can check your Facebook, MySpace or Twitter messages through cell phones, laptops, palmtops and portable T.V. gadgets. You can even check your emails and surf the web, as long as you have internet connection in those electronic gadgets, you’ll never miss any update from your social network communities.

In this article, we introduce another first in the field of digital radio technologies. “PURE, the world’s leading radio maker presents Sensia, the world’s first high resolution DAB digital and internet-connected radio with a unique, large colour touchscreen which delivers a state-of-the-art and intuitive user-interface”, London, UK 17th September 2009London, UK 17th September 2009, Press Release.

Envisioned as the “future of radio”, Pure Digital Sensia radio integrates social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in its functionality. The radio which also works as a digital photo frame, allows users to access their facebook and twitter accounts via the internet.

Sensia Digital Radio is a revolutionary radio equipped with 5.7” 640 x 480 high resolution colour touchscreen, live stream podcasts, DAB/DAB+* and FM, weather, news, Picasa, Facebook or Twitter; and new broadcast material such as station slideshows via Wi-Fi technology.

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