Tag Archives : Facebook

Twitter users have been hit by a phishing attack, the direct messages sent out say something along the lines of “This You????”, “hey, i’ve been having better sex and longer with this here” or “LOL this is funny” followed by a link to a phishing site that looks like twitter which then asks you to enter your twitter credentials in. Video Explanation from Sophos: According [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has been publicly blasted by users as well as industry analysts for privacy invasion on Google Buzz. The results get even scarier if you are a parent who wants to control and monitor your child’s activity on social networks on the internet. Any Gmail contacts of your kid become followers by default and that’s not a good thing to happen. The status [...]

Image via CrunchBase DST (Digital Sky Technologies), the company owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has outlined its plans for the next 5 years and it’s hardly surprising that the company plans to put in a billion dollars to further tap the potential of social media. Clearly, the phenomenal success of DST’s 2 major social media investments – Facebook and Zynga will pave the path [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has formally announced its much awaited entry into the social media fray with the launch of Google Buzz. Though still at an early stage in development, it is touted to take on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Google Buzz runs within Gmail and can integrate with your mobile phone as well. It would be fair to say that it looks like a mix and [...]

The red carpet has been rolled out by Mplayit to announce the top mobile games in its collection. Mplayit is the maker of the immensely popular Mobile App Catalog that powers Facebook and lets users recommend and rate its games and apps through Twitter and Facebook. Though an official report with the list of winners is expected later, the winners include Tetris, The Sims 3, Wheel of Fortune, Tap Tap [...]

It seems that Facebook hasn’t learned from its mistakes. Though it is by far the most popular social network on the internet, it tends to get into trouble by making changes to its interface every now and then. Shortly after it was blasted by users all around the world for changes to its privacy policy, Facebook has now introduced navigation changes for users. So, what has changed for you on Facebook? [...]

Craig “Lazie” Lynch, aged 28 and the man who became nothing short of a cult figure due to his defiant status updates on Facebook, has finally been re-captured four months after his break-out. Lynch was living ever dangerously since he posted a profile picture of himself pointing his middle finger to the camera. While he was busy collecting popularity and adding friends on Facebook, efforts had [...]

If you just logged into your Facebook account after a long break, don’t be surprised if you see a lot of friend requests from strangers and a bunch of irrelevant messages/ invitations. If that’s not enough, you’d be shocked to know that your name, profile photo, gender and other personal information are now public on Facebook. All these changes are courtesy the new privacy (rather, the lack [...]

Image by houltmac via Flickr We all know Tinychat. It started like a very simple IRC-style chatroom app and it complemented conversations on Twitter. However, Tinychat is growing fast! It is now a powerful browser-based communications platform. This platform is rivaling some very large tools built by corporations or venture-backed start-ups.  A very good result, I might add! As things and trends [...]

Couple of changes happening on Facebook this week, first the tagging of posts and now early this morning Facebook announced a new way of logging into your facebook account. This new feature makes it easier to sign in to Facebook, you can do this by using the vanity URL you may or may not have chosen a few months ago to login. This is an ok feature for people who may have long email addesses, however [...]