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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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Google Realtime Search serves up streaming social networking search results

August 26th, 2010 7:45pm Pete Railton No comments

Google Realtime Search serves up streaming spcial networking updates

Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.

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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 throws out a Tweet Button to the web

August 13th, 2010 9:59am mike s No comments

Twitter throws out a Tweet Button to the web

Twitter has announced that they’re unleashing their very own ‘Tweet Button’ on the world, which lets you share links directly from a web page you’re perusing.

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TweetDeck Twitter app coming to Android – more advanced than iPhone version

August 10th, 2010 10:00am Pete Railton No comments

TweetDeck Twitter app coming to Android - bigger and better than iPhone version

Although there’s no shortage of excellent Twitter apps for the Android platform (Twidroid, Seesmic, Touiteur and Tweetcaster being our favourites), iPhone big hitters TweetDeck reckon they’ve some big tricks up their sleeves to make a real splash in the market.

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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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Google Maps 4.4 for Android adds ‘Places’ feature. Yelp unlikely to be chuffed

July 27th, 2010 9:15am mike s No comments

Google Maps 4.4 for Android adds 'Places' feature. Yelp go yelp!

Although Google apparently waved a $550m wad in the direction of  Yelp last year, they found themselves turned down by the local search, social networking and user review site.

That decision may prove to be a bit of a whoopsie for Yelp, seeing as Google has just charged straight into the heart of their core business with the release of Google Places, which comes bundled with Google Maps for mobile v4.4.

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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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Internet sensation Old Spice guy says farewell.

July 16th, 2010 9:00am mike s No comments



It’s with a heavy heart that we heard the news that the sensationally successful Old Spice viral videos are coming to an end.

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Google’s many forays into social media [infographic]

July 10th, 2010 2:14pm Lee J. No comments

Google's many forays into social media

Google is reportedly set to launch its own social networking service Google Me, but it won’t be the first time the search giant has tried to elbow its way into the space currently occupied by the likes of Facebook and MySpace.

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