Tag Archives : Social network

Image via CrunchBase Move over Facebook’s recently launched and fast catching ‘Open Graph’ feature, the  habit-inducing social networking site is reportedly planning a location-based feature that lets users “check-in” at real-world businesses and points of interest. TechCrunch reported about hidden code for the location feature on Facebook’s  mobile website [...]

Whether you have concerns about Facebook’s privacy policies, or you simply don’t want to keep a profile on the website anymore, Facebook make it extremely difficult to actually close your account. If you follow the ‘Help’ section of Facebook, you’ll eventually be led to ‘Deactivate’ your account – which basically means your data is still on [...]

Image via CrunchBase Twitter, the immensely popular social networking service which has made tweet synonymous with a short message posted online rather than of a bird chirping , has reached the milestone of 10 billion “tweets”, as announced by the tweets tracking service GigaTweet, which tracks tweets in real time. All this in less than 4 years of inception, it reached 1 billion in November [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has been publicly blasted by users as well as industry analysts for privacy invasion on Google Buzz. The results get even scarier if you are a parent who wants to control and monitor your child’s activity on social networks on the internet. Any Gmail contacts of your kid become followers by default and that’s not a good thing to happen. The status [...]

Image via CrunchBase DST (Digital Sky Technologies), the company owned by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has outlined its plans for the next 5 years and it’s hardly surprising that the company plans to put in a billion dollars to further tap the potential of social media. Clearly, the phenomenal success of DST’s 2 major social media investments – Facebook and Zynga will pave the path [...]

Image by bandita via Flickr It seems that the folks at Foursquare had enough of ‘Please Rob Me’ – the mock service that was setup to expose the danger of privacy invasion caused by tweeting about Foursquare check-ins. In the latest post on its blog, Foursquare has clarified its stand and with all due respect, shown the middle finger to ‘Please Rob Me’. Every location based service has its [...]

It seems that Facebook hasn’t learned from its mistakes. Though it is by far the most popular social network on the internet, it tends to get into trouble by making changes to its interface every now and then. Shortly after it was blasted by users all around the world for changes to its privacy policy, Facebook has now introduced navigation changes for users. So, what has changed for you on Facebook? [...]

140conf is fast approaching. In less than two weeks time, London‘s o2 Indigo will be hosting the biggest Twitter get-together in the UK. The original scope of #140conf was to explore “the effects of twitter on: Celebrity, “The Media”, Advertising and (maybe) Politics.” Over time the scope expanded to look at the effects of twitter on topics ranging from public safety to public diplomacy. The [...]

Although “tweet” is a word attached to Twitter and, although the social network introduced it, it does not necessarily mean that it is theirs. This transcribes to “Twitter might not even have the means to trademark it”. Moreover, this is exactly what happened on July 1st. Twitter applied to trademark “tweet” on April 16 and, on July 1st, the Patent Office preliminary denied it. Tough blow, [...]

The big announcement from @o2 this afternoon is that from 1st August all o2 customers will be able to receive Twitter messages via SMS. o2 joins Vodafone, who were the first to enable Twitter updates back in March. This comes after Twitter disabled the feature last year, as an attempt to arrange deals with Networks. Updates will be sent to your phone via text message for free, but o2 does request you [...]