Cats and cat owners, and people who love cats, now have a social network made especially for them: Catmoji.
The recently-launched social network for cats looks like Pinterest and is literally an overload of cat photos – which is great for people who love cats.
The site features browsing through cat photos tagged emotions like “sad”, “surprise” and the like.
Founded by cat-lovers Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo who hail from Malaysia, Catmoji aims to become the “Facebook for …

Facebook King Forever?
It seems that just about any social media article that you read these days talks about the numerous benefits of Facebook as a vehicle for business growth. While Facebook has been able to dominate the social media field for some time, there is reason to believe that the company may be losing its edge. The company has moved from a spunky start up that no one believed in to the giant that it is today. Many believe that this change will harbor slower decisions from management …

 
A 12-year-old boy from Florida has helped design GromSocial, a social network for fellow kids, after he was banned from Facebook by his parents.
Zachary Marks went behind his parents’ backs when he was 11 years old and created a Facebook account to play games.
After his parents discovered what he did, he was forbidden to ever use his Facebook account again.
Left with no social network to play on, Zachary and his siblings made GromSocial.
According to his father, Darren Marks, they let …

Argentina and Brazil are the most engaged social networking markets in the world, according to comScore’s latest breakdown of social networking activity in Latin America.
While the analytics company’s study found that Latin American visitors spent almost 10 hours on average on social networking sites in November this year, it found that LinkedIn, the world’s largest network for professionals, had strong growth over the past year because of its organic growth and the acquisition of …

Facebook Gifts will receive a new selection of gifts that include hundreds of items from new retail partners and will roll out to a larger audience, revealed the world’s largest social network on Thursday, November 15.
Facebook users can now extend birthday greetings, congratulate new parents, or wish friends happy holidays with gifts from babyGap, Brookstone, Dean & Deluca, Fab, L’Occitane, Lindt, NARS Cosmetics, ProFlowers, and Random House, Inc.
Subscriptions to Hulu Plus, …

A study by Jobvite Technology reveals that in the US, one in every six employees hunt for jobs via a social network.  Companies today are more “social” online, with the likes of Google and Microsoft sporting and constantly updating their own twitter accounts, as reported in an article at The Times of India

Google+ now has more than 400 million users, announces Google SVP Vic Gundotra.
The Googler unveiled the figures in a post on the search giant’s social network and added that about 25 percent of them are active users.
In the post, Gundotra seemed struck at the number of users Google managed to rack up in a very short time.
“This week we also hit an important milestone – over 400,000,000 people have upgraded to Google+. It was only a year ago that we opened public sign-up, and we …

The cofounders still at Diaspora have announced that the social network will transition to being a “community project”.
Diaspora started out two years ago with the lofty goal of being the “anti-Facebook” social network. It aimed to do this by writing a social networking code that lets people deploy their own servers for their information which will build a network of people.
Four New York University students (Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, and Raphael Sofaer) …

App.net founders believe that many people want an “ad-free” social network, even if they have to pay a fee for it. After a successful fundraising program that gained over $670,000 recently, the startup envisions a network with zero advertisements.
Based on this amount, the possible fee for signing up could be around $50.

App.net plans to create a social networking site that is totally ads free for a price. (Image: jeremiah_owyang (CC) via

Facebook vs Twitter, a rivalry between two names that instigate mixed impressions, sentiments, and notions in almost each online user. Others offer larger-than-life loyalty and passion to Facebook, Twitter, or both, while some pull nothing more than pastime activities from these social networking services. Regardless of our level of participation, we cannot refuse to accept that these massively popular sites draw the most traffic and have two of the largest online user bases today.
In July …