Alicia Keys has convinced fellow celebrities such as Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian to stop updating their Facebook, Twitter and other social networking profiles to raise money for charity. The unusual event means that a large number of celebrities will not log on, update or reply to any message on their profiles until $1 million has been raised for the...
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A study by the Future Laboratory and the coffee giant Nescafe discovered that social network and internet users are not happy with the amount of ‘face time’ they have with close friends and loved ones. The exciting yet relentless advancements in technology is the main cause with innovations in email, texting and of course social networking sites such as Facebook replacing...
When Apple launched Ping uptake was actually pretty swift, one million users signed up in the first 48 hours – not surprising when you consider how many people use iTunes to manage their music. What was surprising and a little confusing was Ping’s standing in the social network pecking order. Was it trying to compete with the likes of Twitter and Facebook? Was Ping...
Social networking sites are great when you want to share something with the world, however they can also cause problems when sharing something you probably have kept secret, why would you do that? Well if you’re drunk probably. Thankfully there is now an precautionary barrier users can install as an add on to internet explorer or Firefox that requires users to take a...
Twitter has added a reported 30 million users in the last two months taking their overall tally to a whopping 175 million users, if the micro-blogging site continues along the same trend they will have over 200 million global users before the end of 2010. This rapid growth is pretty impressive when you consider the site had just over 58 million users at the end of 2009...
I have spent many an hour trying to explain to my mum what Twitter is – I really need visual aids when talking technology to her. Thankfully there may be a new product that could help. WE ARE WHAT WE DO, the social movement behind the Anya Hindmarch ‘I’m NOT a Plastic Bag’ shopper and Historypin, has come up with the new cult gift for this Christmas, the Tweet...
Hi guys, we were very slow on the uptake with our facebook and Twitter pages but they are now both up and flowing so there is no better time for our thousands of loyal readers to get their daily fix of gadgets and gizmos. We know thousands of you read our content every day and would find it very cool if we could bring you the latest gadgets and news every day. ...
Just when you thought the whole Twitter reach could get any broader something pops up to prove you completely wrong. It seems that celebrities are beginning to turn away from Twitter although if you read any of the gossip and news magazines then you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was still the channel of choice to release information about births, deaths, engagements,...
After a week of 3D over the last few days it makes something of a pleasant change (although we’re really not complaining about being indundated with 3D goodies) to write about something else. In this case, it’s all about social networking and the social web. Twitter has reached its 20 billionth tweet in excellent time while Facebook looks likely to postpone...