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Facebook for Android updated to v1.5.3 with friend tagging

Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Facebook has just slammed down an an update to its official application for Android devices, with the shiny new version 1.5.3 serving up a rather small side salad of newness, …

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Twitter wobbles again, won’t let people change their profile pics

Thursday, Mar 31, 2011Thursday, Mar 31, 2011 - by Lee J.

This has been driving us crazy until – ironically – we searched on Twitter to see if others were suffering the same thing, and found the problem is affecting a lot of users.

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Twitter knocks out a backslapping 5th birthday video

Monday, Mar 21, 2011 - by Lee J.

Keen to big themselves up and show what a fabulously useful service they provide, Twitter have produced a video showing off famous and not so famous folks positively bursting with …

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Freaking Facebook fecks about with the Select All Friends function again

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J. - 5 Comments.

Already the buggiest site on the whole internet as far as we’re concerned (it’s the only site that regularly crashes every day without fail on our Chrome/Windows 64 bit system), …

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Android / Blackberry / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

GroupMe mobile sharing app wins SXSW Breakout award

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by mike s

GroupMe, an app that lets users share text messages, photos and locations privately with selected groups of people has won the SXSW Breakout award.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook for Android updates to v1.5.2, we still prefer TweetDeck

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

Facebook have just updated their official Android app to version v1.5.2, slapping down a variety of tweaks and a few usability enhancements.

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Google / web

Google’s blogging service Blogger to get major overhaul [video]

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

With self-publishing mediums like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Posterous and WordPress dominating the headlines, it’s easy to forget that Google’s Blogger is still a formidable force, and Google  are set to …

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Britain’s first libel damages paid over a Twitter entry

Monday, Mar 14, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Plaid Cymru candidate Colin Elsbury, the former mayor of Caerphilly, south Wales has become the first Brit to lose a libel case based on a Twitter entry.

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Google launches Person Finder as devastating earthquake hits Japan

Friday, Mar 11, 2011Friday, Mar 11, 2011 - by mike s

Following the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck 230 miles off the coast of Tokyo, Japan – the sixth largest earthquake ever recorded – Google has announced a free Web-based tool to …

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Foursquare releases v3 Android and iPhone apps

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Company founder Dennis Crowley has been waxing lyrical on his blog as the company preps foursquare version three for the iPhone and Android platforms – both of which should be heading your …

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mobiles / web

Facebook now used by half of the entire UK population

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Facebook has announced that it is now used by 30 million people in the UK, effectively reaching an astonishing half of the population.

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mobile apps / mobiles

Brits: hopelessly hooked on Facebook on mobiles

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011Wednesday, Feb 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

A new study reveals just how much time us Brits spend gazing at Facebook when we’re out and about with our mobile phones (or, more likely, shirking at work).

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Android / mobiles

HTC get social with two Facebook phones, ChaCha and Salsa

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Aimed at social networking fiends, HTC’s new ChaCha and Salsa phones sport dedicated Facebook buttons for super-quick access to those vital status updates and posts from friends.

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Social networking infographic: the rise of Facebook, the fall of Friendster

Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

We may all be social networked up to the hilt these days, but it wasn’t that long ago that the only way you could get chatting online was through near steam-powered Bulletin …

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mobiles / web

Foursquare goes bananas in 2010 with 6m users registering 381m check-ins

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

Foursquare has just stumped up some fairly staggering stats showing off their massive growth over 2010, with the company notching up 6 million registered users, while growing 3,400 percent in …

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