The year is getting over so this is a good time to remember what happened on social networks. These are the main trends that we went through during 2015 and which do also mark the…
Tuenti gets into the TechCrunch Europe Top 100
Spanish social network Tuenti has gotten into the TechCrunch Europe Top 100, with 86 points and the 5th position. The reasons for this sudden interest towards the Spanish company are, according to TechCrunch, that it…
87% of Spanish net users know Facebook
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has asked 503 net users on social networks. Results are quite interesting: 87% of interviewed people say they know Facebook. It goes all the way to 97% when the name…
Copains d’Avant is the top social network in…
Not Facebook nor Skyrock. The main social network in France in terms of user accounts is Copains d'Avant, which gets together former school and university students. This is at least what shows a study by…
If you have more than 20 friends on…
Beware of what you do on Facebook if you have more than 20 friends. According to Spanish Data Protection Agency, 20 is the limit between private and public stuff. So if you have more friends…
Basque police arrests a guy who was identified…
The Basque Police (Ertzaintza) has arrested a guy who was identified on a social network. According to the press release, the 13 year-old victims saw one of the three attackers on a social network and…
In the social networking business there is no…
Friendster was bought two weeks ago by Malaysian company MOL Global for, according to TechCrunch, $26.4 million. This price shows that, because of Metcalfe's law, in social networking only the largest companies can stay. This…
EU governments should stop Facebook changing people’s privacy…
What Facebook is doing with privacy settings is not legal. According to EU regulation, you have to be asked if you want to share your personal data. This can not be a default setting, as…
Friendster loses the Philippines
Friendster was the first social network to make some noise. But that was back in 2003, when the Democrat candidate John Kerry used it to get some donors. He got the money but not enough…