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Open source Diaspora site aims to right Facebook’s social networking wrongs

August 27th, 2010 2:30pm Lee J. 1 comment

Open source Diaspora social network aims to right Facebook's wrongsDiaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.

Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.

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Facebook Places: privacy concerns and previous dodgy practices detailed

August 26th, 2010 9:45am Pete Railton No comments

Facebook Places: privacy concerns and previous dodgy practices detailed

With the newly announced Facebook Places already sending the eyebrows of privacy campaigners arcing skywards, a nifty new infographic has appeared highlighting Facebook’s less than illustrious track record on privacy.

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Facebook Places explained: it’s all about the check-ins and sharing

August 19th, 2010 10:19am mike s No comments

Facebook Places explained: it's all about the check-ins and sharing

Posting on the official Facebook blog,  Michael Sharon, Facebook product manager has added more detail to their new Places functionality, enthusiastically introducing it as a feature that lets you tell your friends about new places and inform them where you are.

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Facebook introduces Places, partners with Gowalla and Foursquare

August 19th, 2010 2:24am mike s No comments

Facebook introduces Places, partners with Gowalla and FoursquareBreaking at an unfeasibly early hour this morning is the hot news that Facebook is launching its long-rumoured location-aware, check-in product, called Places.

The new service sees Facebook partnering with Gowalla and Foursquare, with representatives from the two rival services taking the stage at a special event at Palo Alto, California at 2am UK time.

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Twitter movie parody hits YouTube

August 13th, 2010 9:00am Lee J. No comments

It’s Friday, so what better time to take time off work and watch a parody movie trailer lampooning Twitter?

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Facebook finally adds privacy settings for mobile users

August 6th, 2010 12:45pm Lee J. No comments

Facebook finally adds privacy settings for mobile users

Facebook has finally announced the addition of  advanced privacy settings for mobiles, so that users can control who’s sneaking a-peek at their updates.

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The Brits: a bunch of work-shirking social networkers, apparently

August 6th, 2010 10:00am mike s 1 comment

The Brits: a bunch of work-shirking social networkers, apparently

It seems that employees who spend their work time uploading status updates, posting up amusing photos and Tweeting about the minutiae of their boring work days are costing British businesses billions.

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Facebook for Android enjoys feature-packing update

August 4th, 2010 4:21pm Lee J. No comments

Facebook for Android enjoys feature-packing update

The official Android Facebook app has lagged behind the iPhone version for yonks, but it seems that the folks at the social networking uber-site are slowly waking up to the growing popularity of the platform.

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Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK: study

July 28th, 2010 10:43am Lee J. No comments

Social networking is now the most popuar pastime in the UK: study

Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK with nearly 30 million UK residents spending over 6 hours on social media sites like Facebook or MySpace every month.

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Facebook’s 500 million members displayed in a handy infographic

July 23rd, 2010 11:50am mike s 3 comments

Facebook’s 500 million members displayed in a handy infographic

You can’t go wrong with a nice colourful infographic, so what better way to show off Facebook’s achievement of signing up its 500 million member than with a mouse wheel-troubling monster graphic?

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Trillian for Android instant messaging app on its way

July 9th, 2010 11:48am Lee J. No comments

Trillian for Android instant messaging app on its way

Seemingly nagged into submission by users who have been bombarding them with requests, Cerulean Studios is prepping an Android version of their popular instant messaging app, Trillian.

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Lady Gaga scoops 10 million Facebook fans

July 4th, 2010 2:20pm mike s No comments

Lady Gaga scoops 10 million Facebook fansQuirky popster Lady Gaga has become the first living music artist to notch up 10 million fans or “Likes” on Facebook, giving her something like 700,000 more fans than the probably-more-useful U.S. President Barack Obama.

Ms Gaga had already made an online splash by becoming the first currently producing music artist to reach one billion YouTube views, although Moonwalkin’ Michael Jackson still whips the Lady’s ass in both departments (the late white gloved one has almost 15 million fans on Facebook).

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Google gunning for Facebook with ‘Google Me’ competitor?

June 28th, 2010 9:15am Lee J. No comments

Google gunning for Facebook with Google Me?

We generally aren’t too keen on posting up web rumours that seem to have very little information to back them up, but this one comes from a much better source than most.

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Facebook for iPhone gets updated to v3.1.3

June 19th, 2010 7:41pm mike s 2 comments

Facebook for iPhone gets updated to v3.1.3

With a claimed user base of over 55 million “monthly active iPhone Facebook users,” there’s no doubting that the Facebook app is a popular choice for iPhone users, even if it isn’t exactly the greatest app around.

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Humax finally schedules updates for its wonky PVRs

June 7th, 2010 5:09pm mike s 4 comments

Humax finally schedules updates for its wonky PVRs

Like a lot of our readers, we’ve had a thoroughly torrid time with our Humax PVRs, but it seems there finally is hope on the horizon, with over-the-air updates scheduled for later this week.

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