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Google+ to beat Twitter, LinkedIn

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google plusGoogle+ Inc’s new social-networking service may grow to claim 22 per cent of online US adults in a year, passing Twitter and LinkedIn to be the second- most-used social site after Facebook Inc, a survey found.

Google+ has signed up 13 per cent of US adults and will add 9 percent over the next year, according to the survey from Bloomberg/YouGov. In the same period, Facebook will lose about 2 percentage points of US adults to keep 69 per cent of that population, while Twitter and LinkedIn continue to grow their portion of users.

Started in late June, Google+ is growing faster than Facebook and MySpace Inc. did in their early days. The service, which lets people connect with and manage groups of friends on a website, gained about 25 million users worldwide in less than a month, estimates market researcher ComScore Inc Facebook has more than 750 million active users.

“Google+ is tracing a path similar to Facebook’s initial growth — building excitement in a core group of early adopters,” said Michael Nardis, head of YouGov investment products, in a statement about the survey.

Katie Watson, a spokeswoman for Mountain View, California- based Google, declined to comment. Jonathan Thaw, a spokesman for Facebook, and Matt Graves, a spokesman for Twitter, also declined to comment.

India remained most popular source of spam in June

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spamIndia remained the most popular source of spam or junk mail in June while Brazil returned to second place with an increase of 4.4% compared to May, a new study has said.

According to Kaspersky Lab’s spam report for June 2011, the most noteworthy changes saw South Korea fall from second to fourth in the rating that tracks where spam originates, while Russia dropped two places to seventh.

The volume of spam in mail traffic increased slightly compared to May and averaged 83.3 per cent.

The most popular topics were Osama bin Laden’s death, the last Harry Potter movie the anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, the report said.

Meanwhile, Japan was the latest world power to combat the distribution of unwanted emails at the legislative level.

As of June, the creation, distribution, purchase and storage of malicious programs as well as the distribution of pornographic spam is a criminal offence in the country.

The amount of phishing emails remained unchanged and accounted for 0.02 per cent of all mail traffic.

However, there was a considerable increase in the amount of phishing attacks on social networks Habbo and Facebook, increasing by 6.25 and 4.07 percentage points respectively, pushing the sites up to third and fourth places in the list of organisations attacked most.

Google+ eyeing to interact more with Facebook and Twitter

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Google PlusGoogle’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said that he would like Google+ to interact more with Facebook and Twitter.

Speaking to journalists at a media conference in Idaho, Schmidt admitted that he’d ‘love to have deeper integration with Twitter and Facebook.’

But so far the attempts to bring more interaction between Google+ and Facebook have been unsuccessful as Facebook has been resisting Google+’s talks to import Facebook friends.

Twitter too isn’t much of a help, keeping in mind the search deal between Google and Twitter ended recently without renewal as they couldn’t agree on terms.

Schmidt quite rightly pointed out that it is too early to say how Google+ is doing but did bring up video hang outs, which he said are very popular with younger users.

But now that Facebook has launched its own Skype-powered video chat feature, Google+ may lose some users to Zuckerberg’s bigger and better-established network.

Facebook to hire public policy expert in India

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The expert would tackle regulatory hurdles, misinterpreted features and lack of awareness among government departments. Amid growing privacy concerns across the world, including India, Facebook, plans to hire a public policy expert in India. With nearly 25 million active users in India, Facebook lags behind Google, which counts nearly 60 million users in the country.

As these Internet giants seek to expand their base in India’s lucrative Internet market, they face challenges of regulatory hurdles, misinterpreted features and lack of awareness among government departments. Last month, Bangalore asked Google to stop collecting images for its Street View service on security concerns.

In a job posting, Facebook said the new head of public policy to be based in Delhi, will “actively promote of the uses of Facebook with policymakers and influencers in both electoral and governing bodies.” The need for internet companies to engage with the government and even lobby, comes in wake of the amendment of the Indian IT act of 2008 – a tool with which the government regulates content on the internet.