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Rediff.com has launched a new gaming platform: Rediff PlayGully. The Rediff PlayGully offers APIs to game developers and hence, enables them to integrate their game to the platform easily.

This is going to be Google’s another attempt to compete with Facebook.com, the leading social networking website.

The leading social networking website, Facebook.com, has been blocked in Pakistan by authorities after an order by a Pakistani court.

Facebook, the most popular social networking website in the world, today launched a special mobile version of their site: 0.facebook.com.

Delhi Traffic Police is going to use social networking websites to update citizens about the traffic situation in the city, and that in real time.

Finally, the Big B joins the Big T. Amitabh Bachchan, the star of the millennium, is considered as the most talented and most popular actor of Indian cinema.

Microsoft is working on a social aggregator service: Spindex. Spindex is currently in private beta, and aggregates content from Twitter, Facebook, Evernote and RSS feeds.

Everyone is surprised to see 0 Following and 0 Followers on Twitter.com. If you are unable to understand this situation, here is the reason behind it.

Google Buzz has just added another feature, which lets users to post comments on buzz updates using emails. Another feature added to Google Buzz: support for full photo albums in Buzz photo viewer.

World’s most popular social networking website, Facebook.com, has announced to shut down Facebook Lite – the stripped-down slimmer version of the site.

Facebook recently introduced a new feature: A “Like” button for all websites. Webmasters can incorporate this button to their websites, and hence users can share web pages easily on Facebook.

Bollywood icon Salman Khan has joined trending social networking website twitter.com. Salman Khan has more than 16,000 followers now. His twitter id is @BeingSalmanKhan.

A Google Buzz user has filed a lawsuit against Google over the privacy issues. He said that Google automatically activated Buzz on his Gmail account, which leaked his frequent e-mail contacts and other information.

Twitter is planning to integrate an automatic language translation feature, which will translate all tweets in user’s native language.

Surprised to see a “Happy Basant” doodle on orkut.com? Basant is a Hindu festival, but the Pakistani Muslims also celebrate Basant in their own way.

Social networking site Orkut has rolled out an Android application for its users. This app enables users to get instant access to their scrapbook, photo album and other features.

Reddit.com has migrated its persistent cache to Cassandra. Many other big sites like Digg, Facebook and Twitter have already adopted Cassandra because of its performance and extensibility.