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Google & Bing In Twitter Search Battle

October 22, 2009

Microsoft announced having agreed a deal with Twitter on providing real-time searches in Bing from Twitter. A few hours later, Google announced pretty much the same deal. Using Bing or Google, users should be able to search in Twitter messages, even just a few moments after they have been “tweeted”. Microsoft already has a test [...]

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Woman Arrested For Virtual Poke On Facebook

October 13, 2009

Have you ever poked somebody on Facebook only to have them poke back at you and you then poked again and they did the same to you and before you knew it, you were inside an endless loop? Facebook poking is perhaps the most simple way of “communication” within Facebook, even though it’s nothing else [...]

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Facebook Gets Twitter-Like @Reply Feature In Status Updates

September 16, 2009

Facebook seems to be moving more and more into the whole Twitter thing recently and now they just added yet another Twitter like feature: “@Replies” in your status updates. It’s very simple. As you write your status update, you just hit “@” on your keyboard and you can start writing the name of the person [...]

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Facebook Lite: Facebook On A Diet (Updated With Screenshots)

September 11, 2009

In a world where you can get pretty much anything in a “diet” version with zero calories (well, in the food and drinks category at least) we can also soon enjoy a lighter version of Facebook called “Facebook Lite”. This new version of the site comes with less features and no applications (no more invitations [...]

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Facebook 3.0 for iPhone Released

August 28, 2009

iPhone users with a Facebook account, launch your App Store and download the latest release of the Facebook app for the iPhone. It has just been released in a 3.0 version. Facebook app developer, Joe Hewitt, has been working on Facebook 3.0 for quite some time. He submitted it to Apple for review on August [...]

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Facebook – Friend Or Foe ?

August 17, 2009

A few days ago, I wrote an article that was republished a number of times around the internet. In it I detailed a little bit of the angst being felt by people who had been banned or suspended while diddling around in the social network – Facebook.

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Facebook and FriendFeed Combine Power

August 16, 2009

Well, I’m sure that you’ve heard the news now that FriendFeed has been bought by Facebook. This is going to put Facebook on the map for real-time research inquiries just like on Twitter. It sure does look like that Facebook is running after Twitter, hard-core.

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Facebook: World’s 4th Most Visited Website. Google: Brand Value $100 Billion

August 6, 2009

In just one year, Facebook has seen a phenomenal growth in the number of visits. Today there are 208 million more people visiting Facebook, than there was just a year ago. 24 million more visits last month makes Facebook the fourth most popular site in the world and the most popular site that has nothing [...]

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Do You Want Facebook To Use Your Photos In Ads?

July 27, 2009

Chances are that with your current privacy settings, you’re allowing Facebook and it’s partners to use YOUR PHOTOS in their advertising material, i.e. some of the ads you see in the right column of Facebook. There’s two things you can do about it, unless you don’t care: 1) Add a watermark to all your pictures, [...]

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Facebook App For iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon

July 11, 2009

For some time now, I’ve wondered why Facebook didn’t release a proper iPhone application that would let you use Faceobok more, like you would do in a browser. With the current version, you’re missing out on some features that would be nice to have, in such an application. Not to mention, where’s push notifications?! However, [...]

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Facebook Looking To Replace Twitter Tweets?

June 24, 2009

Have you heard about the Facebook “Everyone button” yet? I haven’t, so I was a bit surprised to read today that Facebook launched a beta of the new Publisher with the “Everyone button” for certain users. Basically it lets you post your status updates for the whole world to see, not only your friends, just [...]

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Facebook, a second Internet?

June 23, 2009

In the near future, where will you go to search for products, reviews or news articles? Facebook or Google? Apparently there’s a “war” going on between Facebook and Google, that might not be obvious to a lot of people. The issue: Lots of the content created on, and uploaded to, Facebook, is shielded from Google [...]

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I need a “Twitter FriendFeed Facebook” app – what do you got?

June 23, 2009

I’ve been on Twitter almost 2 weeks now, and I like it. Lots of interesting people to follow and I’ve already read lots of interesting articles, recommended by those people. FriendFeed seems pretty interesting too. I love that you can comment on “tweets” and the like function. But using only FriendFeed will make me miss alot [...]

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