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Google / photography / web

Swiftly shunt your Facebook photos into your Google+ account with Move2Picasa

Monday, Jul 11, 2011Monday, Jul 11, 2011 - by mike s

If – like us – you’re preparing to jump ship from Facebook and break free from its auto photo-taggin’ and auto group joinin’ ways, a new Chrome extension makes the …

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web

Facebook adds self-proclaimed ‘awesome’ Skype video chatting feature

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Lee J.

Enthusiastically pre-hyped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the new “awesome” add-on to the social networking site has been revealed as video chat tool created in partnership with Skype.

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computing / Palm / portable

WordPress for webOS serves up a stunning interface for TouchPad

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Looking delightfully slick is the new WordPress for webOS which looks a delight on its shiny new promo video. WordPress for webOS uses nifty sliding panels to let users swiftly …

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web

Facebook annoys more users by blocking contact-exporting tool

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Facebook’s penchant for hanging on to your data is well documented, so we expect many users were pleased when a developer created a Chrome extension tool that made it easy …

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mobiles

US teens are, like, so over chatting on the phone [infographic]

Sunday, Jul 3, 2011 - by Lee J.

After questioning 500 US teens via social networking sites, online consumer market research bods lab42 discovered that 71 per cent of respondents apparently preferred texting to phone calling.

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Android / Google / mobiles

Google+ invite process shut down after ‘Insane Demand’

Thursday, Jun 30, 2011Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Six hours after Google opened up the invitation process to its new new social networking service Google+, the company has had to close down invites, with Google’s senior vice president …

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web

MySpace goes for a song, Justin Timberlake takes ownership stake

Thursday, Jun 30, 2011Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 - by mike s

After what seemed like a never-ending tailspin into obscurity, hope may burn bright once again for the beleaguered former social networking heavyweight, MySpace. Bought up for $580 million by News …

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Android / Google / mobiles / web

Google+ to challenge Facebook for the social networking crown

Tuesday, Jun 28, 2011Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Tasked with making “sharing on the web more like sharing in real life,” Google has unveiled its response to the social networking behemoth of Facebook. Called Google+, the service – …

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web

Twitter finally gets in on the link shortening action

Wednesday, Jun 8, 2011Wednesday, Jun 8, 2011 - by mike s

Twitter has finally dragged its slovenly botty into 2011 and announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened, courtesy of their t.co URL shortener.

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Google / web

Google launches the +1 button to let friends recommend search results

Thursday, Jun 2, 2011Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 - by mike s

Frustrated by missing out on all the ‘like’ action enjoyed by Facebook, Google has officially launched its own version: the ‘+1’ button.

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web

Facebook takes over the world, with over 700m users signed up

Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 - by Lee J.

Facebook’s quest to take over the planet continues, with new figures putting its total user base at a staggering 700,000,000 users worldwide – an astonishing rise from January’s figures of 500m …

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business

The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - by Lee J.

Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.

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photography / web

Twitpic changes its terms, gives itself permission to sell on your images

Wednesday, May 11, 2011Wednesday, Jun 1, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 10 Comments.

With a rather sneaky sleight of hand, Twitpic, the hugely popular photo sharing service used to upload photos to Twitter, has updated its terms of service to let the company …

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web

MySpace: the bidding begins on the tragically flabby, faltering, failed music site

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011Wednesday, Apr 27, 2011 - by mike s

Jettisoning users quicker than the LibDems are losing voters, MySpace was once a fantastic resource for bands, fans and promoters. Its appeal was fairly simple: it provided an easy way for music lovers …

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web

Freaking Facebook infuriates further with more flipping flaky errors

Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Man oh man, are we getting more and more fed up with freaking Facebook, which is throwing up so many random errors these days that it’s beginning to rival MySpace …

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