Check your LinkedIn connections or Facebook status on Outlook!

Posted on February 17, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech

Microsoft just released a beta version of of the Outlook Social Connector, where users could check their LinkedIn connections, MySpace’s friends or Facebook status from Outlook, the company’s dekstop email program. Smart move!

Skype, still the world’s biggest social network

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech

My colleague Jeremy Wagstaff wrote an interesting piece on Skype and highlighted that the service is still the world’s biggest social network! [To be honest, I was also not aware about this fact!]

We talk about Facebook, twitter, MySpace and Friendster as the big social networks but we keep forgetting one that is far bigger than that: Skype. This from a Bloomberg piece on Skype’s vacillating fortunes:

Skype has soared in popularity since it started in 2003 and has about 548 million users worldwide—more than Facebook, MySpace and Twitter combined.