In a move to get even more users on its website, Facebook has launched a new java based mobile application called "Facebook For Every Phone" which offers a fast and comprehensive access to Facebook.com on mobile phones.
Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, has been publishing his own estimates about the number of Google+ users on Google+ itself. According to his new estimate there are now more than 10 million users today. This can make Google+ the fastest growing web product.
Twitter reports a 560% growth in Developer activity 0.75M active developers who have developed more than 1 million applications using the Twitter API.
With Google+ knocking at the door, Facebook can recognize a tool, that users can use to break away from Facebook’s aim of locking them in Facebook, when it sees one. So, Facebook did what they did to Facebook Friend Exporter – they banned Open-Xchange’s tool despite the fact that it did not violate anything.
Wordpress now claims to host more than 50 Million weblogs worldwide. Well, this is indeed a very huge number. Apart from this, more than 500,000 new posts are created daily on the blogging platform!
As a part of the merger of Yahoo!’s search backend with Bing search engine, Yahoo! has announced the shut down of it’s Site Explorer tool from the Yahoo! Search service. Webmasters will now be required to use the Bing Webmaster Central for both Yahoo! and Bing search.