News that popular photo-sharing service Instagram coming to Android has been talked about by fans for a while now. Now, its creators are opening up registrations in preparation for its coming release. The registration provides owners of Android devices the chance to be the first ones to get Instagram, reported tech news website The Next Web. “Using nothing more than a single form, Instagram fans can enter their email address to sign up for what could be a beta release of the app before it hits Google Play, Amazon’s Appstore and...
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Online gaming giant Zynga has decided to redesign the company’s website to begin the end of its reliance on Facebook, setting itself up to become a standalone platform for gaming. Zynga, the company that made big Facebook hits such as Farmville, Words With Friends, Zynga Poker and Hidden Chronicles, has launched its own Zynga Platform that will allow developers to use it to host their own creations. The new platform is designed for those users who don’t use Facebook or other platforms to play games. Mark Pincus, founder of...
Social networking site Facebook will be rolling out its Timeline feature to all users in the next few weeks. This means that those who don’t want to change the look of their profile pages to the new feature will have to settle for it as it will become mandatory. Facebook said on a blog post on Tuesday that it will launch the new feature to all users “over the next few weeks.” While the feature is loved by many users, some don’t think it is a good idea as info that have already disappeared from their accounts will...
The English-language site of Wikipedia will be going offline for 24 hours to show protest against two American anti-piracy laws, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) and Stop ONline Piracy Act (SOPA). The temporary closure is one of the most highly commented discussions on the site, where 591 users supported a global blackout, while 479 supported a U.S. only blackout. Aside from Wikipedia, other websites such as Boing Boing and Reddit said that they will also go offline on Wednesday. Some of the big names online, including Facebook, Google, Tumblr...
Social network site Facebook has deleted photos of girls breastfeeding and has apologized for the error of removing these photos for violation of policy. Facebook has taken down a page for Express Yourself Mums, a site that promotes breastfeeding, over photos of girls breastfeeding their dolls. The website’s co-owner, Sharon Blackstone, posted a photo of her seven-year-old daughter breasfeeding her doll, sharing it with other members, mostly mothers. “After giving her doll a naming ceremony, Maya told me that her baby needed...
Google+, the Internet search giant’s attempt to rival Facebook, has received 2.6 million unique visits in the United Kingdom in November 2012, according to comScore. The UK-specific traffic data released by comScore do not include visits through mobile devices. The figures show that Google’s social network service ranked the United Kingdom as the seventh highest country in terms of visitors, next to Japan. Other countries that top the list are the United States, India, Brazil, Germany and France. The website got a total of...
At least seven police officers in the United Kingdom have resigned, two have been sacked and 150 are facing disciplinary action for posting inappropriate comments or photos on social networking site Facebook in the last four years. Police officers used the website to comment on other people’s wives, harass other people and brag about beating up people during protests. Some of them even tried to befriend crime victims and revealed police operation details. The background data were released to the Press Association after a pre-planned...
With the holidays just around the corner, Google is rolling out some new features for its Google+ social network. Bradley Horowitz, the vice president of Google+, said that the new features they are releasing includes a tool called the noise filter, which can fine tune a user’s stream to control which posts can be seen. “We’re adding fine-grained controls that will enable you to ‘graphic-equalize’ and fine-tune your stream,” said Horowitz in a blog post. “When viewing the stream for a particular circle,...
A prince of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in micro blogging site Twitter, adding another investment in the global media industry. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who is a nephew of the king of Saudi Arabia and was estimated to have a fortune of $20 billion by Forbes magazine, already owns a 7 percent share in News Corp. and is also currently planning on starting a cable news channel. Reports say that Alwaleed secured a 3.75 percent stake in the social network site after “months of negotiations.” His investment’s...
The new look of Facebook is available starting today. The Timeline feature, which was unveiled at this year’s F8 Developer’s Conference in September, offers users a virtual history similar to a digital scrapbook. Timeline maps out each user’s profile as a series of events arranged chronologically. The Timeline, the company’s biggest interface change, is the result of a six-month development work, where developers did not only create new software, but they also worked a way to quickly roll out the service to 800...