Tag Archives : Facebook

Image via CrunchBase After facing severe negative reactions and criticism from all quarters about the privacy policy  which has gone to the extent of people making their mind to quit Facebook altogether and events like quitfacebook.com gaining momentum Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg went on a damage control exercise. He admitted that his popular social networking tool had moved “too [...]

Image via Wikipedia If you are planning to stop using Facebook after numerous atrocious security and privacy bloopers one bigger than the other, the recent been the sharing of user data with advertisers, but, have been procrastinating to do it have some help with deciding on the D-Day. A website called Quit Facebook Day has set the last day of May as the day everyone keen to leave the social network [...]

Image via CrunchBase If you were angry with Facebook’s self serving and financially motivated user policies this would outrage you. WSJ ( Wall Street Journal) reported that  Facebook along with MySpace, Digg, and a few other  social-networking sites sent advertisers information (user names, ages, hometowns and occupations) about  which specific users were clicking on ads, based on a report [...]

Calvin Robinson, Editor of Sporkings.com discusses Facebook Privacy Policy issues on Channel 4 News in the UK: We previously wrote an article instructing users on the steps necessary to delete a Facebook account; Image via Wikipedia Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely [...]

Image via CrunchBase Move over Facebook’s recently launched and fast catching ‘Open Graph’ feature, the  habit-inducing social networking site is reportedly planning a location-based feature that lets users “check-in” at real-world businesses and points of interest. TechCrunch reported about hidden code for the location feature on Facebook’s  mobile website [...]

Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely difficult to actually close your account. If you follow the ‘Help’ section of Facebook, you’ll eventually be led to ‘Deactivate’ your account – which basically means your data is still on [...]

Image via CrunchBase Facebook unveiled its  grand plan to make the the rest of the web social at its F8 developer’s conference in San Francisco held yesterday. Facebook’s Director of Product, Bret Taylor laid out three major initiatives to that effect. Open Graph Protocol, Social Plugins, and changes to the Facebook API that will enable developers to use these services (Graph [...]

Image via Wikipedia FarmVille, Facebook’s most widely used application has added the Facebook Credits payment option. In fact, Facebook Credits is now the default payment option in FarmVille and it comes in 2 variants – Farm Cash and Farm Coins. Facebook Credits, the virtual currency floated by Facebook has been very popular amongst the developer community as well as gamers. It’s a win-win [...]

Image by StrictlyCircus via Flickr Google Buzz – Google’s latest social networking tool is now available as an iPhone app called ‘Buzzie’. Buzzie is available for download from the Apple iTunes store. Since Google Buzz resides within Gmail and you can access it through a web browser as well, so an obvious question to ask is ‘Why do you need an iPhone app for Buzz’? Well, Buzzie answers [...]

There’s good news for all you ‘Fashionistas’ out there. Samsung has recently launched its trendy, stylish and very fashionable Diva S7070 phone in UK. As the name suggests, the Samsung Diva is a true fashion phone with ‘mesmerizing’ looks. The diamond shaped button on the front adds more charm to Diva’s gorgeous looks. Samsung realizes that there’s massive untapped potential [...]