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MySpace, for all intents and purposes, is dead and has been so for quite a while. But it may be seeing somewhat of a revival, or maybe just a bit of thawing. MySpace has managed to gain one million new users since December when it introduced a new music player.
The New York Times reports that MySpace is about to ann... |
13 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Owners of BlackBerry smartphones out there can now download and install a new application on their devices, the Music Store client.
The app will provide them with fast access to a variety of songs, regardless of their location. They will be able to find new music, purchase it, integrate it with playlists, and more.... |
3 February 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Along with its IPO filling, Facebook revealed some interesting numbers about it and not only financial stats. It provided a user growth chart going back a few years, revealing that it had 845 million monthly active users last December.
That's up from 800 million in September, the last official number. At the en... |
2 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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The inevitable has happened, Facebook has filed for an initial public offering (IPO). It wasn't much of a secret that the company was going to do it on the first day of February. In fact, nothing about the IPO has been much of a secret for a long time.
The company is looking to raise $5 billion, €3.81 bill... |
2 February 2012
05:30 GMT |
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The wheels are in motion, and have been so for a long time now, but the latest rumor on the Facebook IPO says that the company may file it as early as next week. This means that we'll be seeing the first official financial details on the company very soon. The filing should also shed some light on the size of th... |
28 January 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Facebook is taking over the world. No, it isn't replacing governments just yet, but it is the largest social network in most places around the world. The last holdouts are falling one by one and in the few places where Facebook isn't number one, the site is completely blocked in the country.
Blogger Vincen... |
27 January 2012
13:11 GMT |
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Not exactly the most surprising of predictions or the hardest to calculate, but Facebook is expected to hit one billion active users, i.e. users that log in at least once a month, by this summer, if the growth rate continues as until now.
Given that the social network has been growing in a rather linear fashion for ... |
12 January 2012
16:01 GMT |
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By now, most Facebook users should have gotten the Timeline profile feature. As with any big changes on Facebook, the feature is not without its critics, but it's hard to underestimate the scope and scale of the project which is to help you highlight the important events of your life on a single page.
Being one... |
6 January 2012
08:24 GMT |
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There are still plenty of questions left about the fate and future of Google+. But, so far, the social network has done a good job at getting users to sign up, more so than any other similar attempt by Google, or by anyone else for that matter.
The latest unofficial user numbers peg Google+ at 62 million users, just... |
28 December 2011
05:37 GMT |
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Following our previous articles, Ubuntu Books Lens, Ubuntu Cities Scope, Ubuntu Grooveshark Scope, Ubuntu Calculator Scope and Pirate Bay Torrents Lens for Unity, today we are introducing the Ubuntu Gwibber Lens for Unity. Ubuntu Gwibber Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that will allow users to quickly search for soci... |
27 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Saying that social networking has taken over the web will fail to surprise anyone at this point. Facebook and everyone in its tow are huge and they're getting bigger.
As social gets woven into more and more websites, it's getting harder to stay away and data released by comScore shows exactly that.
82 per... |
22 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled a big batch of updates for Google+, probably the last ones of the year, as the engineers are taking a well earned vacation for the holidays. After the year Google+ has had, it's clearly deserved.The latest update brings one big new feature, two revamped ones and a greatly improved one."T... |
19 December 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Facebook has released an enhanced version of its iOS application targeting iPhone owners looking to access the Mobile Timeline on their smartphone. Other enhancements are included as well.According to the people behind the most popular social networking platform, users who download and install Facebook 4.1 will gain ... |
19 December 2011
04:40 GMT |
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Galaxy Nexus, the latest Google phone out there, does not arrive on shelves only with the new Ice Cream Sandwich operating system from Google, but it also sports integration with some of the most popular services from the Internet giant.
In the latest video ad for the handset, Google touts the social capabilities o... |
30 November 2011
13:21 GMT |
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Facebook scientists, yes there exists such a thing, teamed up with fellow scientists over at the Università degli Studi di Milano to find out just how close two random people on Facebook were, i.e. how many degrees of separation there are between them. It is an accepted fact, based on some older research, tha... |
22 November 2011
04:01 GMT |
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The Facebook Events feature has gotten an update that seems to have been rolled out to everyone by now. The events page has been revamped and there are big and small changes throughout.
The event's details take center stage, as they should, with all of the basic info such as, what the event is about, where it&#... |
17 November 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who own a device running under the new Mango flavor of Microsoft's mobile platform can now download and install a new version of the Seesmic application.The new software iteration was made available with support for the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system, and comes with a series of featu... |
12 November 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Today is the great day for Nokia fans waiting for the first Windows Phone devices from the company to become official, yet it seems that others might also get a treat.
The handset vendor is rumored to plan the unveiling of a new Series 40 device today, one that would also sport a QWERTY keyboard.
Nokia reps have ... |
26 October 2011
02:53 GMT |
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Zynga has made plenty of announcements at its Unleashed event, it had plenty of new games and made its first foray into mobile gaming, but the big strategic move is Project Z which is, in a way, a stand-alone social network tied to Zynga's games. But it's based on Facebook. Stick with up on this one, it mak... |
12 October 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the new mobile platform flavor from Microsoft, comes with features that will keep users connected at all times with their friends and family.
Among them, there are also options to share content with contacts via Windows Live, and also the option to follow people that interest you, Microsof... |
8 October 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Facebook has learned quite a few lessons from Google+ and applied them already, not only when it comes to features but to the way they're announced, as more come from the engineers that work on them announcing the changes on Facebook itself.The latest example is a subtle change to the ability to tag any user on ... |
8 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Social networking holds a lot of promise for advertisers and, while many are warming up the idea of advertising in the highly personal sites, it will be quite some time before social networks command the kind of money that search sites do.
According to a report by eMarketer, ad revenue across all social networks w... |
6 October 2011
10:40 GMT |
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Facebook is moving to add full HTTPS support for its site and this means third-party app maker have to fall in line as well. The deadline for adding a secure URL option as well as OAuth 2.0 support for Facebook apps was October 1st.
With that gone, Facebook is now moving to clean up and enforce the new rule by mak... |
5 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Google+ has continued to grow since launch. It started out great and quickly gained 10 million users. But, despite not being available to all users, the hype around the project meant that growth was easy to achieve in the first weeks.
Things slowed down after a while, but then Google+ user numbers jumped 30 perce... |
26 September 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Google’s social networking application for iOS device owners has been updated to version 1.0.4.2326 with new abilities, like joining Hangouts directly from the app, and sending photos in Messenger, which is the replacement of Huddle.
Providing fans with everything they need to stay in touch with their friend... |
26 September 2011
02:04 GMT |
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It's easy to look at Facebook and its 750 million users and ponder about the greatness of social networking, Mark Zuckerberg's determination, the site's increasing influence over every day life and so on and so forth.
The fact that it's worth tens of billions of dollars and may go public at a $... |
20 September 2011
09:33 GMT |
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Facebook Messenger is no longer a U.S.-only application. iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide can now access their country’s version of the iTunes App Store and immediately download the free app.The relatively new, standalone instant-messaging application for subscribers to the popular social networking ... |
15 September 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Social networking is a major part of online life. That much is obvious, but now we have some more data to back this up. According to the latest report from Nielsen, about online audiences, four in five internet users, in the US, visit a social network or a blog at least once a month.Facebook is the top dog, of course... |
13 September 2011
07:44 GMT |
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The people at Facebook have given their iPhone application an overhaul adding new abilities, like tagging friends and places in posts, and several improvements and bug fixes.
“Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends,” say the people behind the world’... |
7 September 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Google is working on its own version of Facebook Pages for Google+, it's actually moving faster than it initially planned, and some first signs are already showing up.For example, Google is now suggesting employers as well as universities for those wanting to fill out their profiles. Until now, users simply fill... |
31 August 2011
12:21 GMT |
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It's not something that can't be easily observed by anyone online, but more and more people use social networking sites. In the US, more than half the population has a social network profile. Two thirds of internet users in the US visit and use sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on.
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29 August 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Facebook unleashed a batch of updates, new features and tweaks to its site. While the features are being rolled out gradually, starting tomorrow, they'll make it easier to control your privacy settings and also give more control over who sees what. All the changes are a big improvement over how Facebook used to ... |
24 August 2011
11:41 GMT |
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If there were any more doubts that Facebook is a global phenomenon, you only need to look at the most popular countries on the site, i.e. the ones with most users, to see the clear trend.The US sits at the top, of course, but below it sit several big and mostly understated countries which have tens of millions of Fac... |
23 August 2011
12:31 GMT |
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Although many sites had ‘net problems yesterday, the blackout at Apple’s online store seems to have ended with at least one notable change - social sharing features. So long as you’re accessing store.apple.com on a supported browser (Safari, Firefox, Chrome), the site now offers the ability to shar... |
18 August 2011
03:01 GMT |
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Google+'s (limited) success story is only a small first step for the social network. It's been able to get perhaps 20 million users and 25 million visitors in the first month or so it's been available.But as with any new thing, people are drawn in by curiosity, but some don't stick around after th... |
8 August 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Facebook has introduced an interesting new option to the list of family members, soon-to-be parents can now share their joy with the world with the "Expecting: Child" option. Facebook has quietly added this option which enables users to list family members that haven't been born yet.
This was probably in resp... |
3 August 2011
08:16 GMT |
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Google+ has officially become the fastest website to reach 25 million visitors, according to the latest data from comScore. This happened just before Google+ turned one month old.
What's more, the site continues to grow and people are starting to spend more time on it, likely because more people they know ar... |
3 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Among the enhancements that the next flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system called Windows Phone Mango should bring around, we can count a series of improvements brought to the People Hub, aimed at offering users the possibility to stay close to their friends much easier than before.
As soon as Mango... |
21 July 2011
13:51 GMT |
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When released later during the ongoing year, the next iteration of Windows Phone will include new features aimed at providing users with great new experiences, and the Twitter and LinkedIn integration that just got showcased is one of them.
The company has already made available a beta version of this Windows Ph... |
20 July 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Google+ has certainly generated a lot of hype and interest. This was based mostly on empirical evidence and estimates until CEO Larry Page revealed that the social network had 10 million users in the first two weeks.
Now, a week later, Google+ may be hitting 18 million users, a huge number, but the growth rate is a... |
20 July 2011
05:21 GMT |
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As expected, Apple has approved Google+ for iPhone, a social networking application developed by the Mountain View search giant. As the company behind the world’s most popular search engine puts it, “Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler.” “Hu... |
20 July 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Facebook is enjoying a very solid position as the largest social network in the world and one of the biggest sites online. But it still wants people to spend more on the site and one way it's doing this is by having more and more content inside. We already knew that it's working with media companies, music ... |
16 July 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Mobile phone users who like staying connected with their friends over the increasingly popular social networking site Facebook now have a new application available for their handsets that enables them to do so, the Facebook for Every Phone app.
The new mobile software was released into the wild with support for a... |
13 July 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Norwegian software company Opera Software has just announced a partnership with NK, the top social network in Poland, to offer users the possibility to stay connected with their friends and family over the social destination.
When on holiday this summer, users will be able to stay on top of what is happening on ... |
12 July 2011
07:18 GMT |
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Google+ may still be invite only, but there are quite a few people on the site already and they're pretty active. So the fact Google started sending out many of them, tens of email notifications, in some cases, even to those that had disabled the feature, didn't go unnoticed. People got tens of emails from... |
11 July 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Twitter is loved by those who use it, the service has got a very loyal core user base. It's quite a large one at that, there are some 200 million people using Twitter every month. And the most active users feel part of a very tight group.
The problem is that, everyone else feels excluded and the quirks, habi... |
6 July 2011
05:34 GMT |
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Google+ has raised quite a lot of interest these past couple of days. The initial reactions have been very positive and this may be Google's first competitive social project, so people are at least intrigued.When Google enabled existing users to send invitations to their friends, the surge in activity promptly l... |
30 June 2011
11:31 GMT |
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There are several companies offering a ready-built comments platform for websites, but Facebook entry, or rather re-entry, into the field was significant. However, the initial launch was less impressive than it could have been since several features, which were present during the testing phase, were removed in the fi... |
30 June 2011
09:31 GMT |
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The saga is over, MySpace has been sold to Specific Media, an advertising network, for $35 million a paltry sum by any measure. News Corp. which has owned MySpace for the past six years or so has finally gotten rid of the property which was becoming an increasingly ugly spot on its quarterly financial reports.
The... |
30 June 2011
03:33 GMT |
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An all-new effort by Google to revitalize social networking, Google+ aims to attend to the most basic of human needs - to connect with others. The service, currently in beta, is already available as an Android app and, according to the search giant, it’s also coming to the iPhone in the form of a native applica... |
29 June 2011
08:58 GMT |
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