We have heard of some crazy things that happen in the online world, perhaps none crazier than this. Facebook are being sued again, this time it is because they disabled someone’s account. That someone is Mustafa Fteja … [Read more...]
Facebook Testing New Social Purchasing Feature
January 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Yesterday we reported that Facebook has made it mandatory for all the applications to use their proprietary Facebook credits system, and today it seems that there may be a reason for behind that decision. Since the recent success of sites such as Groupon, other companies are attempting similar … [Read more...]
Facebook Security: Addition of HTTPS access
January 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Earlier this week we reported on how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page had been hacked into and noted that it was not exactly great publicity for Facebook but we’ve heard news today of something that should please a lot of people. Security surrounding Facebook has long been an … [Read more...]
Facebook & Skype Voice Chat – Your Thoughts
January 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
It’s no secret that Skype and Facebook have a partnership going on, and it makes perfect sense as both companies need one another to continue to grow. We have recently reported that Skype has set themselves a new record of 27 million simultaneous logins which is pretty impressive … [Read more...]
State of the Union Address and Social Web Statistics
January 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
On Tuesday we heard the State of the Union address from President Obama and we had previously given details of a YouTube live appearance by the President, scheduled for today (Thursday). Yesterday we also reported on how President Obama included mentions of Google and Facebook in the speech and … [Read more...]
MySpace, YouTube & Facebook: 2010′s Most Blacklisted Websites
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
Social media is the fastest growing thing the Internet has ever seen especially when you think of some of the things that make it up. Facebook alone has more than 500 million users with half of them being daily contributors … [Read more...]
Diabetes UK Facebook Group: More Than 20,000 Fans & Growing
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
Facebook is truly a great place to advertise for anything, as we know it has more than 500 million users with more than half of them performing daily activities as you can read on the Facebook stats page. Facebook has seen many things since it began good and bad. Recently it has been blocked from … [Read more...]
HeyWire: Android App Gives SMS, FB Chat & Twitter All In 1
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
For the people out there that love Texting, Tweeting and Facebooking, we have some good news for you. HeyWire has brought out an app for Android and it merges these 3 things together in to one big social sandwich. … [Read more...]
HTC to Make Facebook Phone – More Details at MWC 2011
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
We all know how big Facebook is, it’s got more than 500 million users signed up to it with more than half of those users performing activities daily. Wouldn’t it be good to separate all of its functionality and be able to run it all at the same time but also be mobile … [Read more...]
Facebook Changing Virtual Purchase Method-Developers Unhappy
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
Facebook has announced that it is changing the method in which virtual goods and applications are purchases, and it has raised corcern for games developers. Facebook Credits which are sold in most gaming stores over the world are now becoming the default payment method for all Facebook related … [Read more...]
Mark Zuckerberg Hacking: Not great publicity for Facebook
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
A lot of social media news at the moment seems to be about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook and only yesterday we looked at the film about Facebook, “The Social Network” and the fact it has been nominated for 8 Oscars this year. We’ve also looked into the growing fortunes of Zuckerberg and … [Read more...]
Obama’s State of the Union includes Google and Facebook
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
A few days ago we told how President Obama’s State of the Union address would be streamed live online and also that the President would be appearing on YouTube live on Thursday (tomorrow), to answer questions. We have also noted the growing use of social media in politics and yesterday in the … [Read more...]
Starbucks Card eGift: Send That Special Something Online
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
Starbucks renowned across 50 countries for being one of the largest chain of coffee house retailers, is today offering its customers not just fantastic food and drinks, but the chance for people to give that special someone in their life a new “gift card.” Be it a birthday, holiday occasion, … [Read more...]
27% Of Americans Are Using Facebook In The Restroom: Do You?
January 26, 2011 Leave a Comment
We have already read the Pope’s views on social networking and how social media is being used by inmates behind bars, these all contribute to Facebook having more than 500 million users signed up to it with more than half of them being daily visitors performing various activities. What we didn’t … [Read more...]
Oscar Nominations 2011: Facebook movie up for 8
January 25, 2011 1 Comment
Today it was time for the Oscar 2011 Nominations to be revealed and one movie which has cropped up many times here on OSM, ‘The Social Network’ has received 8 nominations. The film about Mark Zuckerberg and the creation of Facebook has already seen success winning four Golden Globe Awards … [Read more...]
Bln.Kr Like Hootsuite: Help Bands Utilize Social Media
January 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
As a percentage of you are possibly aware, social media and the way in which it is used can contribute to an individual's or company's success. Here at OSM, we have recently brought you news about how it can possibly help or hinder it. But today's news from Mashable has spoken of a new idea by the … [Read more...]
Top Gear Live Tour in 2011: Twitter and Facebook Fan Reactions
January 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
For all you Top Gear fans out there we have found some details for the live tour. We have already reported to you about how Twitter is being inundated with comments for the Stig, for those of you who are unaware of what the Stig does, basically he drives a lot of the cars around the customized … [Read more...]
How To Use Social Media – UFC Master Class
January 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
If you are looking for some tips on how to get the most out of social media, then look no further than the absolute master class given by the UFC this weekend. The guys in the marketing team are some of the best we have seen, they gained 66,210 ‘Likes’ in a single weekend on Facebook. Amazing or … [Read more...]
Woman Accused Of Fake Identity- Kate Middleton Facebook Account Disabled
January 24, 2011 1 Comment
A woman who shares the same name as the future Queen of England has had her Facebook account disabled after being accused of using a "fake name". … [Read more...]
Pope Benedict’s Social Networking Views
January 24, 2011 1 Comment
With the rise of social networking and social media over the last few years, we have reported on various aspects of it. We have looked at how it can help your business, how Ryan Babel of Liverpool FC ended up getting fined by the FA for things he said about a referee over Twitter and we have even … [Read more...]
Is Facebook A Distraction? Two More Footballers Banned
January 24, 2011 Leave a Comment
Over the past few weeks we have seen plenty of ranting and raving over the social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter. It has been highly publicised that these sites are starting to become abused, especially by celebs and we have another case of that here. … [Read more...]
Twitter’s Advertising Revenue Expected To Soar In Next Year
January 24, 2011 1 Comment
Analysts have predicted that in the next 12 months Twitter's revenue is to set to explode. The huge microblogging service generates a large portion of its income from advertising and in 2011 this has been tipped to triple. … [Read more...]
Do Facebook & Twitter Diminish Us? Let us know
January 24, 2011 2 Comments
We all know about the growing impact of social networking on everyday life and much has been said about some people’s obsession with being constantly connected. Now, a leading sociologist in the U.S. claims that the way we are using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook actually … [Read more...]
The Real Sean Parker Slams The Social Network Movie
January 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Social Network Movie was one of the biggest and most controversial movies of 2010 and now a real life character has hit out at the film. By the way its not Mark Zuckerberg... … [Read more...]
State of the Union address and YouTube questions
January 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
At OSM we’ve noted the growing impact of using social media in politics and now we hear of a great opportunity to get your own questions to the man himself, President Barack Obama. … [Read more...]
