Tag Archives : Facebook

Yep Gmail is down. The tweeting world is all asking itself the same question, is it down for you to? Answer, that’s a Bingo! or Yes. No reason as yet…. While you wait, watch this live stream of fbFund REV Demo Day ’09 Live Video streaming by Ustream

Bad news for Facebook this week, as a new lawsuit was filed against them. This Monday, a group of five Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit, in which the company was accused of violating California consumer privacy laws. This was happening on Monday, at the California’s Orange County Superior Court. The five plaintiffs, a professional photographer, two 13-year-old children, and actress and model, [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife We’ve all seen the googlezon video, could this be the beginings of a new video to be created? It was just announced that facebook would be purchasing friendfeed.com the amount is not clear at the moment, however what is known is that all friendfeed staff will be joining facebook and the four co-founders “will hold senior roles on Facebook’s [...]

A couple of weeks ago, the largest 3G wireless operator in USA, Verizon, announced the launch of a new app store: the Widget Bazaar. This storefront is aimed at providing new widgets and applications for its Fios TV clients. Some of Verizon’s partners will develop the apps for now. “From the beginning we said we wanted Fios to be a platform for innovation,” – Shaygan Kheradpir, Verizon [...]

Image via Wikipedia Tuesday was one of the most difficult days for the popular micro-blogging website Twitter, after a hacker gained access to their Google cloud-based Apps platform and managed to steal over 300 confidential documents and screenshots. These sensitive documents were sent to Techcrunch, where Michael Arrington decided to release some of them to the public. But how was this possible? [...]

Only last week did Twitter post a message on their blog apologising for accidentaly suspending accounts and now it seems it’s happening all over again. I opened TweetDeck to see blank fields. After re-starting the app a couple of times I launched the Twitter.com webpage to see my horror, that I had been suspended. After sending a polite support message, and venting my frustration out on Facebook, [...]

We came across a very interesting article on Demonized, that we just had to share with you. Facebook being the largest social networking website in the world has also managed to supress freedom of speech and contribute to the suppression of breaking news. Since the last few weeks, Facebook along with twitter and youtube has proved essential for Iranians to release information and spread videos and [...]

Much hype will be made in the press today about Facebook raising an additional $200 million from Digital Sky Technologies valuing it at a hefty $10 billion. Granted this sounds like a lot, but isn’t as much as its 2007 valuation. Back then Microsoft threw $240 million into the ring which gave Facebook a worth of $15 billion. DTS the Russian owned company walks out of the deal with a 2% stake [...]