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Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

March 5th, 2010 9:15am Pete Railton No comments

Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

Although we’re sure an awful lot of these were of the inane “I’m going to the shops for some fags” variety, there’s no denying that Twitter’s total of over 10 billion tweets is one hell of an impressive figure.

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Buzie Google Buzz iPhone app hits town

March 3rd, 2010 7:05pm Tony Fletcher No comments

Buzie Google Buzz iPhone app hits townAlthough Google Buzz runs fairly dandy from within the iPhone’s browser, the first dedicated app for the innovative social networking tool has been sent out into the wild.

Called Buzie, the app lets users check out Buzz conversations in their local area without logging into the service.

Once signed in, they can then start conversations, or join in with their followers, or just indulge in a good ol’ bout of stalking.

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The Do Not Tweet List and how to avoid Twitter disasters

March 3rd, 2010 12:09pm Lee J. No comments

The Do Not Tweet List and how to avoid Twitter disasters

With numerous examples of loose-lipped Twitterers blabbing themselves into tricky situations, social media site NewCommBizz has compiled a handy list of Twitter Ye Nots.

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Facebook serves up bigger photo fun

March 3rd, 2010 11:16am mike s No comments

Facebook serves up bigger photo funFacebook has just announced that it’s rolling out an increase in the maximum image sizes allowed for photo updates.

Promised back at the end of January, the increase brushes aside the previous image limitation of 604 pixels and elevates it to the heady heights of 720 pixels.

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Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 released

March 1st, 2010 11:28am Lee J. No comments

Facebook for Windows Mobile 1.2 releasedIt’s been lagging behind mobile versions on Facebook on other platforms, but Microsoft’s updated Facebook app for Windows Mobile finally adds a sorely missed feature: the ability to add comments to posts made by friends.

The updated app – now hitting v1.2 – also lets users “like” their friends’ posts.

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Twitter ‘LOL’ BZPharma phishing attack festers

February 22nd, 2010 12:28pm mike s No comments

Twitter 'LOL' BZPharma Phishing attack festers

Security bods Sophos are warning that what’s been called the ‘LOL’ phishing attack is continuing to fester on the web, and not just by direct message.

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Gowalla extends support to Android handsets; Palm, Blackberry on the way

February 22nd, 2010 9:30am Lee J. 1 comment

Gowalla for Mobile Web on AndroidIt’s proved a hit on the iPhone (mainly in the States), and now the doodz at Gowalla are hurling their popular location-based social networking game in the direction of the Android community.

Joining Google Buzz, Foursquare and all the other location based services hustlin’ and a-bustlin’ to grab the biggest slice of this growing, err, pie, Gowalla’s new beta Android-optimised site can be found at m.gowalla.com.

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PleaseRobMe website highlights danger of location sharing Tweets

February 18th, 2010 11:21am mike s No comments

PleaseRobMe website highlights danger of location sharing Tweeting

A new website called PleaseRobMe.com has been created to warn users about the potential perils of using services like Foursquare, Twitter and GoogleBuzz, which let users share their location online and ‘check in’ to places.

By aggregating all those publicly announced check-ins, the site serves up a handy list of people who have left their home and checked in elsewhere, ramming home the point that such information may prove invaluable to burglars.

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Facebook eats the Internet, sucks up 7 hours a month of its users

February 17th, 2010 10:48am mike s 1 comment

Facebook eats the Internet, sucks up 7 hours a month of its users

New figures from Nielsen show that the average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia, and Amazon combined.

What’s more, people are spending more and more time on the social networking site. There’s no escape!

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Facebook Zero: a text-only, slimmed down site for mobile phones

February 16th, 2010 8:00pm Lee J. No comments

Facebook Zero: a text-only, slimmed down site for mobile phonesFacebook has announced a new, stripped down version of its site at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Called Facebook Zero, the text-only version of the social networking site is aimed at reducing the bandwidth requirements of the service by getting rid of data intensive applications like photos – something that will no doubt please mobile operators.

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Google Buzz: we’re out of here – and here’s how to quit too

February 11th, 2010 10:57am mike s 1 comment

Google Buzz: we're out of here - and here's how to quit too

We love trying out new stuff from Google, and excitedly signed up to their new Twitter/Facebook mash-up, Google Buzz.

To get you up and running fast, Buzz automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow, and these are chosen by who you email and chat with most using Gmail.

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Google Buzz: like Facebook and Twitter mashed up in GMail

February 9th, 2010 8:55pm mike s 1 comment

Google may have their sticky fingers in just about every online pie, but there’s one area where their influence has resolutely failed to have any impact: social networking.

They may own Orkut and OpenSocial, but they’re barely a molehill on the social networking horizon compared to the big boys like Facebook or Twitter, so Google have devised a cunning plan.

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Now that’s what I call Tweeting! Astronaut Twitpics are out of this world

February 5th, 2010 8:21pm mike s No comments

Now that's what I call Tweeting! Astronaut Twitpics are out of this world

It’s all well and good telling the world you’re about to pop down the road to get some fags or that your toilet cistern isn’t working, but when it comes to knocking out interesting Tweets, Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi has got it nailed.
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Twitter trends go local – curtain twitchers approve

January 27th, 2010 2:06pm mike s No comments

Twitter trends go localTwitter’s trending topics are now being served up in local flavours, so users can quickly view the hot topics going down in their ‘hood.

Twitter has long offered a facility to view global trends, but the new feature will let curtain-twitching types see what’s happening at a local level.

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Yelp updates iPhone app and goes for Foursquare with ‘check in’ features

January 18th, 2010 10:15am mike s 1 comment

Yelp updates iPhone app and goes for Foursquare with 'check in' featuresClearly inspired by growing traffic to location based, social networking services like Foursquare and Gowalla, Yelp have bolted on new ‘check-in’ features to the latest version of its iPhone app.

As well as the check-in feature, user profiles can be checked out, and they’ve updated their augmented reality ‘Monocle’ viewer which now lets you see friends’ virtual check-ins onscreen.

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