Posted by A Ocean on August 12, 2010 ·
Myspace
MySpace has revamped the homepage the users first seen after logging in, it has given a complete redesign to the user homepage with a renewed focus on content through the stream and other sharing tools. It may be too late to catch up with Facebook but that does not deter the Social Networking site from trying to catch up.
MySpace is owned by News Corp. and based in the Los Angeles area [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 12, 2010 ·
TweetDeck
Hugely popular social media management tool TweetDeck which lets you access your Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare accounts from a single application now arrives on Android.
Tweetdeck on Android is much better than its version on iPhone (unlike, other apps which generally have superior iPhone and inferior Android apps) Android users get more features than are currently available on the [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 11, 2010 ·
Tweet Button
Technology and Web 2.0 Blog Mashable has reported that microbloging gaint Twitter is releasing a Tweet Button for sharing websites with your followers and tracking how many times a webpage has been retweeted / shared on Twitter.
Twitter has launched new functionalities in the recent month and this feature was bound to appear sooner than later. Facebook had debuted this feature through [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 4, 2010 ·
Facebook app
Facebook users on Android platform may not have to envy the much slicker and more friendly Facebook app for iPhone any longer. Facebook app for Android got updated to version 1.3.0 yesterday and the latest Android version is absolutely improving and fast catching up with the Facebook version on iPhone.
Version 1.3.0 adds some key new features like Events (like birthdays) , friend [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 30, 2010 ·
Facebook
If you think your information is only available to those visiting your Facebook page, you are wrong. The personal details of 100 million users of Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. Ron Bowles, an online security consultant, used a code to scan Facebook profiles, collected data not hidden by users’ privacy settings, and compiled a list, [...]
Posted by Martin Beauchamp on July 15, 2010 ·
Image via Wikipedia
It’s the trailer you probably weren’t waiting for but heck, it is tech, it is social media, it should define a generation, heck it could be the next Matrix.
‘The Social Network‘ – depicts the early days of Facebook, you know when they has 22,000 hits in 2 hours. Before Zuckerburg had 500 million friends and a few enemies. Ah the life of an undergraduate, [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 13, 2010 ·
Facebook
Facebook will add a ‘panic button’ application for U.K. users which will report child abuse to Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported.
Facebook was under pressure from just about everyone after a 17-year old girl was lured to [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 9, 2010 ·
Some of Facebook's gifts
Facebook has announced that its Gift Shop, which allows users to send personalized items -drinks, birthday cakes, and pieces of flair – to friends on the network will close on August 1, 010 to allow it to focus on improving other features. Users will still be able to use third-party applications to send and receive greeting cards and other items.
“Closing [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 7, 2010 ·
The Holiday Match Maker from Halifax. It’s one of those rare things, a Facebook application that is genuinely useful and entertaining at the same time. It’s also pretty clever. By analysing the content of your profile, it will ’calculate’ what your ideal holiday destination is, where you should stay, what you should do, what the weather’s like at the moment and how many plastic Eiffel Towers [...]
Posted by A Ocean on July 2, 2010 ·
Groupola announced that its newsletter subscribers has the possibility to get a £99 iPhone 4 today morning without a mention of how many units would be available for these ‘lucky’ subscribers.
For this too good to be true offer, Groupola’s website immediately crashed under the strain of the high-volume web traffic, and blogosphere including tweets and Groupola’s own Facebook [...]