Social Networking is the most important factor of growth of internet in India a Juxt Consult survey found that nearly 50% of traffic in India is related to Social networking. Orkut has been the one website which has driven the internet growth in India over last three years and has taken the Internet to the masses.

It has also been the primary focus of Google’s product development team in India and they have introduced bunch of features to continue its growth like adding pictures and videos and introducing tighter privacy features this while may have arrested the migration to other networks but it also seemed to have led to the peaking of Orkut. (more…)

Powered by Web 2.0 technology that is backed Facebook is a cubical that lets Web 2.0 happen for you. It was launched by Mark Zuckerberg, a 23 years old guy on 4th, 2004. Initially it was created for Harvard students, but within a month time exponential growth was achieved, with more tahn 30 networks added to its network communities. Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal was the first investor to invest $500,000 into Facebook. (more…)

Today, News Corporation has officially launched its India centric MySpace.com, one of the biggest social networking portal in the world. The India launch which is part of MySpace expansion in Asia region is just after the Korea launch. India is third Asian center of all three Asian MySpace hub after Japan and Korea. (more…)

A good web design begins with the knowledge of fundamental principle of art and organization is always the guiding principles of effective Social Network Web designing. The quality of a web site requires more than just putting the content on the web pages. Planning and design consideration like development and visibility factors must be followed to ensure that visual communication is laid out successfully. Also, those tenets of graphic design like the use of symbols, typography, and colors are used to convey meaning and facts within every web design. Since web sites are created to communicate every visiting readers understanding the graphical user interface renders good visual communication.

Web designing is putting the client’s choice of web site’s content with the web designer’s artistic discipline. This artistic discipline then follows the basic principle of User Interface Design in conveying the meaning of visible languages. (more…)

The popularity of social networking websites is fast spreading like wildfire across the Internet. These websites allow their members to live in a carefree virtual world where they can interact with other members without any obligations. Apart from finding friends, these sites are now used as Internet marketing tools - yes, social networking websites can help increase website traffic by sending a massive amount of traffic to a website thereby improving its search engine rankings.

These websites are powered by the latest sophisticated technologies like AJAX, that allow members - apart from interacting with other members - to customize page backgrounds, work with unique templates, post music/videos, share pictures, store documents and generally have a ball of a virtual time. (more…)

While large scale social sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube and Myspace have predominated the web-o-sphere over the past few years there still is a need for narrow content verticals in this arena. This list will give you links to 40 open source resources to get you started building your own social bookmarking, networking, filesharing or search application. The following is a list of what I consider the be the best open source social software that I’ve found over the past year.

Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great social bookmarking, network, filesharing or search applications, and I’ll be glad to post them. Also special thanks to all of the folks who produced all of this great free software. All descriptions below are taken from the developers of the software. (more…)