Google and Facebook have had privacy woes of late, Google got into hot water over their ‘accidental’ collection of private information with their Google Street view cars and Facebook has been in trouble because a third party developer was caught mishandling users information last week. This is by no means the first privacy issues the two brands have had but are the...
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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. ...
It’s all go in mergers and partnerships for websites at the moment. While the rumours about the Facebook phone are hanging around like a belligerent kid that doesn’t want to go to bed, it seems that the social network has made a new friend in the world of telephony as the latest incarnation of Skype now has Facebook fully integrated into it so that your Facebook...
The rumours of an official Facebook phone just don’t seem to go away and you can almost hear the angst in Facebook statements to that very effect. The news that INQ is rumoured to be releasing a new phone for February of next year, which is already being billed as the Facebook Phone 2, may quash those rumours or, based on the fact that many believed Facebook were...
On Thursday 23rd September 2010 the popular social networking site with the famous F crashed. Facebook users the world over were in panic, was it just their facebook page? Was it worldwide? We had the same questions and according to other live sources like twitter it did seem pretty widespread. Facebook even used their rival Twitter to announce that the problem was due...
A 14 year old girl nearly had the mother of all parties after mistakenly posting an open invitation to everybody on Facebook. over 21,000 guests responded in the affirmative stating their intention to visit the girl’s house just for the party. Even the clean up party, which has been set up since, has attracted 80 guests. Following the mistake, the girl took the invitation...
There are numerous mobile phones and smartphones on the market that claim to offer complete social networking functionality. Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks are supposed to integrate perfectly into the operating systems that the handsets use but the reality is quite different. iOS and Android struggle to offer the complete suite of features that Facebook includes...
You would be forgiven for thinking that Facebook is filled with crap quizzes and boring groups. After all, if you have but a single active Facebook friend then that’s pretty much all you’ll see in terms of friend updates. However, there’s also some genuinely interesting pages as well as some just plain weird. Show your appreciation by liking pages of...
Google has been making headways of sorts into the social networking arena and many analysts believe that they are gearing themselves up for a concerted push at the social networking crown that is currently held by Facebook. While they already own a number of social networking sites, including Orkut which is apparently very popular in Brazil, they have yet to make a real...
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...