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Microsoft is trying to arrive at the social networking arena.

After the mega failure of Google Wave and Google Buzz , Google may have hit the bull’s eye with Google+ in social networking ‘circles’ by smartly integrating Facebook and Twitter with a smattering of additional features. But the fact is, it is yet to get into public domain and prove successful there.

It's the Unfaithful singer Rihanna who has just overtaken Lady gaga on the Facebook charts.

A list that tracks the 100 people who have the most followers on Google+ says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed person on Google+ than Google CEO Larry Page.

The diagnosis of a four-year-old's medical condition Kawasaki Disease via Facebook has gained the attention of the internet community.

Owling is the new trend after planking, just days old, which involves people posing for pictures crouching like an owl in unusual places.

Netflix has become increasingly popular lately, and not for the right reasons, as it announced that it plans a 60 percent hike for subscribers who wish to buy both the DVD and streaming packages.

In the same week social media network, Facebook, helps to diagnose a young boy with a rare autoimmune disease, actor John Travolta, 57, and his wife Kelly Preston, who both falsely claimed their son, Jett Travolta, had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition which causes inflammation of blood vessels, chose not to donate to charities supporting the illness.

On Friday, technology blogs picked up on a possible Microsoft social media application called Tulalip. The app said on its front page With Tulalip you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever, before Microsoft developers quickly took it down.

An unknown number of dogs, cats, birds and other creatures also likely have their own pages on the social network giant.

Deborah Copkaken Kogan's former neighbor, her pediatrician friend and her pediatric oncologist cousin all suggested a strange diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in her son, Leo, after photos were shared with more than 1,400 friends friends and family on social network, Facebook, which has more than 750 million members.

A true story about how Facebook saved a four year old boy's life.

Aron harbored dreams of appearing on the “American Idol” TV show and sang covers of popular songs on the SingSnap.com Web site.

Anyone trying to gauge the outrage over the Casey Anthony verdict need look no further than Sammay Blackwell, an Oklahoma woman who was violently attacked for bearing a resemblance to Caylee Anthony's mother.

Spotify launched in the U.S.

Google+, Google's newly launched social network, has strong momentum, but could result in higher marketing spending and limit margin improvement.

Though just a few days old the social network Google+ already connects more than 10 million people as Larry Page of Google announced together with the company results of Q2 2011.

Spotify, the Swedish DRM-based popular music online service in Europe, is coming to U.S. shores.

Google launches a new photo sharing app called Photovine for Apple iOS.

Microsoft might be working on a social project called Tulalip, according to details from a splash page that was accidentally published to Socl.com recently. Currently a message which reads, Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest, is on the display as the unintentionally published page has been taken down.

You got a body, you got a Plank, is the universal slogan for planking, an activity that involves a person lying face down, body stiff and often on dangerous or unusual places. Termed by many as an Internet craze, planking is promoted mostly through planking photos uploaded on Facebook and dedicated sites. Planking, also known as lying down game or face downs, often see players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to plank.

Within two weeks from its launch, Google+ had reached over 10 million users and according to a latest estimate, the profiles will double by Sunday.

Spotify's mega launch in the US has probably alarmed Apple, whose pioneering iTunes service cut a new path in digital music business.

Face.com, a face detection and recognition service that equipped Facebook with the facial recognition technology, has announced an API release of a new set of facial analysis attributes, namely, mood estimation and facial expressions.

The dust is yet to settle following Facebook's teaming up with Skype to launch the video chat, a feature Facebook's founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed as something awesome. Far from being awesome Facebook's feature, hosted at facebook.com/videocalling, acquired the URL through extremely undignified means, alleges a company called Samuday Web Technologies.

Casey Anthony, the young woman accused of murdering her young child using duct tape and chloroform. Anthony was acquitted July 5 on homicide charges and will be released July 17.

Google Inc's results soundly trounced Wall Street's most bullish expectations, sending its shares up 12 percent and easing concerns that its battle with Facebook and Twitter is costing too much and hindering growth.

The video-rental store Blockbuster is attempting to benefit from the backlash that has engulfed its digital competitor, Netflix, after the latter raised prices this week.

The company plans on using established American brands to integrate itself into the culture.