Tag Archives : Facebook

Image Source - Sophos.com Internet and Spam are synonymous,  how could Apple’s recently launched Ping Social Networking site be safe from spam. The Ping network which is  integrated with iTunes 10 and allows iTunes users to follow  artists, update status and swap comments with other fans got attacked by spammers within few hours of its launch, the comments sections to be swamped by phony [...]

Facebook on Palm OS Palm has released Facebook for Palm webOS 1.3, the release includes dozens of new features and enhancements, many of which were prompted or refined based on the user feedback. Highlights include selectable feeds, comments in the feed, photo tagging, landscape mode, clearing multiple notifications at once, and lots of performance enhancements. We are impressed with the importance [...]

Twitter Twitter is temporarily disabling the new “Who to Follow” feature. Twitter launched  “Who to Follow” few weeks ago as a way to give Twitter users suggestions for other users to follow. Among other factors suggestions are based on things like, the people you follow, the people they follow and other factors. “We’ve temporarily turned off the “Who To Follow” feature and [...]

MySpace MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook. Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application installations [...]

Facebook A study result  conducted by a  psychologist about  Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on Facebook. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were [...]

Source : Facebook If you have one of those jailbroken iPhones which are unable to access Facebook – we bring great news for you. Facebook has released a  new version for iPhone – 3.2.2 – and this edition fixes login issues for users of jailbroken iPhones. The new version of the app is available via the Updates tab in  iPhone’s App Store application. Facebook’s Engineers have initially [...]

Hot Potato Facebook has accquired Hot Potato, a New York-based startup that specializes in social activity updates for an undisclosed amount according to an  announcement made by Hot Potato . The company will be shutting down operations within a month and delete all existing members data. “This wasn’t an easy decision, especially since we’ve built up a base of dedicated users. If Hot Potato [...]

Facebook Facebook Places is in the news since it launch yesterday, its popularity has rubbed off on Foursquare , who have yesterday seen a highest number of signups, thanks to Foursquare and its ilk, location based services have been around for quite some time now, even Yelp.com has joined the fray, nevertheless, this feature has now got tremendous exposure with Facebook’s 500 million user [...]

Foursquare Launch of Facebook Places in US has all the features of a Facebook feature launch – huge publicity in media, indepth discussions on blogosphere, scrutiny by privacy advocates and of course, large number of users trying it out. One unexpected  but, positive consequence is that Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places. On Thursday, the [...]

Facebook Facebook has  announced Places yesterday, the much expected  feature that brings location based functionality to the popular social network  site. Location-based services are the next big thing  at this moment with Foursquare and Gowalla leading the pack. This service will be initially available on the latest version of the Facebook App for iPhone . Facebook places will let users [...]