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Facebook Mobilizes Its Army

Facebook has renewed its mobile effort not by building a phone, but by adding more features to its existing app. It’s also made it more consistent across platforms, thrown in new ideas for mobile commerce and let third parties in on its mobile data feeds. Meanwhile, T-Mobile slapped a 4G label on HSPA+, a jury [...]

Nov 7 2010 | Posted in Internet,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

Buzzkill: Google settles Google Buzz privacy suit for $8.5 million donation

A drop in the bucket for the search behemoth. Google today settled the class action lawsuit it earned when it launched Google Buzz without any privacy controls. Google Buzz is a social networking tool similar to Twitter that allows users to share information with their connections. In order to jumpstart users’ social graph, Buzz users [...]

Nov 4 2010 | Posted in Internet,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

Google API Powers Global SCVNGR Hunt

The real-world location-based game SCVNGR is going global with the help of the Google Places application programming interface. Google Ventures has also dug up a second round of funding for the mobile game. Opening itself to a worldwide audience could give SCVNGR an edge over similar outfits like Foursquare and Gowalla.SCVNGR, a Boston-based company that [...]

Nov 3 2010 | Posted in Computing,Internet,Servers,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

MySpace Faces the Music

The once-mighty MySpace has given up trying to reclaim its glory as the world’s largest general-purpose social network, a title now firmly in Facebook’s grasp. Instead, MySpace is undertaking a significant redesign that will put the focus on the types of users it’s managed to more or less keep on board: musicians and music fans. [...]

Oct 31 2010 | Posted in Internet,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

At Facebook, customer help from a real person can be hard to find

When customers are called users, customer service takes on a different meaning. Having a problem logging into Facebook or harvesting apples in FarmVille? Tracking down a live person to help with those issues can be tougher than conserving tractor fuel for a virtual harvest. Facebook’s customer support mechanism consists of databases answering common questions, along [...]

Oct 27 2010 | Posted in Internet,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

Twitter urges Murdoch to be open

Newspapers should become “radically open” if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has said. Biz Stone said that he would “love to see what happens” if newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch went ahead with plans to block Google from his websites. “The future is in openness [...]

Nov 19 2009 | Posted in Internet,Social Networking,Tech News | Read More »

One billion a day turn to YouTube

YouTube now gets over a billion hits a day, according to a new video blog post by the founder of the website. Chad Hurley’s blog marks the third anniversary of YouTube’s controversial acquisition by Google. The site was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65bn – a price it later described as “a premium”. Earlier [...]

Oct 9 2009 | Posted in Home Tech,Internet,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Court order served over Twitter

The High Court has given permission for an injunction to be served via social-networking site Twitter. The order is to be served against an unknown Twitter user who anonymously posts to the site using the same name as a right-wing political blogger. The order demands the anonymous Twitter user reveal their identity and stop posing [...]

Oct 1 2009 | Posted in Blogging,Internet,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Google invites users to join Wave

Google Wave, which combines e-mail, instant messaging and wiki-style editing will go on public trial today. The search giant hopes the tool, described as “how e-mail would look if it were invented today”, will transform how people communicate online. It will be open to 100,000 invitees from 1600BST, each of whom can nominate five further [...]

Sep 30 2009 | Posted in Internet,Search Tech,Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »

Facebook grows and makes money

The world’s largest social networking site just got bigger with the announcement it has 300 million active monthly users from around the globe. Facebook also revealed that it had started making money ahead of schedule. The company had not expected to start turning a profit until sometime in 2010. “This is important to us because [...]

Sep 16 2009 | Posted in Social Networking,Tech News,Technology | Read More »