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We brought you the news a few days back that the UK government were set for a meeting with Facebook, Twitter and Research In Motion. The issue on the agenda was the part that these company's services played in the recent UK riots. The talks between Home Secretary Theresa May, officials and the … [Read more...]
Facebook has branched their social networking service out into a number of directions, location based being one of them. Facebook Places allows users to check in to various locations around the world, sharing these with your friends. The site has now published its check in results, with coffee … [Read more...]
Here at OSM, popular social networking site Facebook is always a hot topic. Just yesterday we brought you news of a privacy overhaul, details of Facebook expanding its content and how Ticketmaster will now show details of where your Facebook friends are sitting at an event. Today’s Facebook news … [Read more...]
Facebook has expanded its media library by adding the BBC's hit show, Top Gear to their selection of TV show offerings. The popular car show joins another BBC classic, Doctor Who as watchable programs on the massively popular social networking site. The fun does not stop there, Mark Zuckerberg and … [Read more...]
One of the biggest criticisms of Facebook is the way it deals with privacy. You will be pleased to know that the site is on the verge now of a dramatic overhaul which will see a number of changes to the site, helping those who are exposed by the current settings. The update is expected to be … [Read more...]
Facebook is getting even more involved in many of the things we do, now showing which of your friends are attending certain events and even where they are sitting. Event ticketing firm Ticketmaster has now integrated the social networking site into its own, helping you plan and attend gigs even … [Read more...]
The UK riots are pretty much over now but there is still an investigation into the role that social media played in the chaos. The huge amount of people that decided to rebel, loot and destroy mostly used social networking services like Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to organize their … [Read more...]
One of our favorite topics here at OSM is social media marketing and the campaigns emanating from it and just one of our recent posts was an interesting infographic showing social media marketing in figures. Today we have news for you of a new Bounce campaign using social media, which will use … [Read more...]
Even with the introduction of Google+ Facebook is still rolling along as the largest social network we have. With that being the case we are constantly seeing different Facebook scams popping up all over the place, they normally target high profile names or different events. Now we have another one … [Read more...]
One of Facebook’s most developed features is the ‘Like’ button, it’s used on many websites including our own and now we have some news that there’s one nation that has gone against it. That’s right; the ultra cautious Germans have opted to ban the Facebook button… Dislike! … [Read more...]
We brought you the news last week that firstly Anonymous had a plan to destroy Facebook and then secondly that a large part of the organization had stepped away from this threat. ANON has now confirmed collectively via Twitter that the attack will not go ahead on the scheduled date of Guy Fawkes … [Read more...]
If you thought Facebook were having a bad time having to defend themselves from ridiculous lawsuits then you should see what Google has on their hands. A man named David Stebbins has made a crazy claim that the search engine giant owes him $500 billion! Stebbins decided to create his own terms of … [Read more...]
One of our most popular subjects at OSM is giant social networking site Facebook. However we’ve noted on many occasions that a lot of people simply don’t like changes to their favorite social networking site and we’ve seen numerous examples of that from Facebook and Twitter. Today we wanted to … [Read more...]
Online social networking site Facebook is racking up a massive figure of over 750 million in users, this is a staggering feat when you consider its been going since 2004 when co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg set it up. Allowing users to add friends and loved ones, share and tag photos, update … [Read more...]
In the past when we've spoken about the topic of cyber bullying, the news tends to emphasize on the younger generation, but news today has stated that a dramatic rise has been seen amongst teachers being targeted particularly from parents. … [Read more...]
Online social networking sites have now become part of our daily lives, in fact some would argue that they have taken over our existence. Although sites such as Facebook and Twitter being the big two, pull in millions of users every day of every week and offer positive experiences such as finding … [Read more...]
One of the main functions that some people use Facebook for is being able to look back on the old. Connecting with old school friends and looking through pictures from the past are things that some people use the site for and now another feature has been added to rekindle the memories. Facebook … [Read more...]
We know that many of our readers are fans of social gaming and regularly bring news of the latest developments from social network gaming specialists Zynga. After the phenomenal success of FarmVille, CityVille and more recently Empires and Allies on Facebook, regular players will be pleased to learn … [Read more...]
We all know that Facebook is becoming pretty cluttered with all sorts of different scams such as the apparent free tickets to Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the scam about Lil Wayne nearly parting company with the world from a car crash. Now we have another FB Scam it’s titled “WIN 800 FV … [Read more...]
Last week's news was dominated by one story, the UK rioting. Social media also came under the spotlight, being cited as the tool in which the rioters used to organize their crimes. Facebook, Twitter and RIM's IM service BlackBerry Messenger have all been highlighted as aids to the gangs, with some … [Read more...]
For many the word “social media” may not mean anything straight away, but then if we associate it with words such as Facebook, Twitter, the use of MySpace and so on, then it starts to sound familiar. Individuals log onto the above sites plus many more, every day of every week and its not just … [Read more...]
Another day another scam on the biggest social network of them all, Facebook! Recently we have reported on quite a few different ones including one titled “BREAKING: Lil Wayne Nearly Dies In FATAL Car Crash!” and another aimed at Lady GaGa. Today’s is titled, “Get a free tickets to Twilight … [Read more...]
To many, the words “Social Media” may still sound almost alien, but then if we mentioned how the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, professional site LinkedIn and so on are now being used, you may start to prick your ears up! Over the last few years, sites such as the … [Read more...]
The last few days have been dominated by the news that hacking group Anonymous are planning to destroy Facebook on Bonfire Night. The world famous group uploaded a video saying that they would bring an end to the popular social networking site. It now seems that this high profile attack has been … [Read more...]
You may already be aware of the really poor functionality that we have seen from Facebook over the last little while; Facebook changed a few bits here and there and managed to completely mess up the chat functionality sending people into outrage, now Facebook chat has had a further update… At … [Read more...]
