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If you just happen to be a fan of the hugely popular “FarmVille” game application on Facebook, then you may have read our previous article on Zynga’s upcoming “CityVille” city management game. If you are interested in the game, you might like to see some gameplay footage. … [Read more...]
Latest stats have shown that Facebook accounts for a whopping 25% of all page views in the U.S which makes the social network the site that is visited every one in four times by users. This huge amount of traffic is rapidly growing and Facebook is responsible for 10% of all Internet visits. … [Read more...]
A 10 year old school boy has aided in the arrest of a phone thief as he witnessed the robbery and managed to snap a picture of the criminal on this dad's phone. Alex Wilson posted the picture on micro-blogging site Twitter which then helped the police to get a positive ID on the suspect and then … [Read more...]
Facebook, listed as the number one social networking site, is now got another reason to celebrate. As well as pulling in some 500 million users to its site since its initial launch, it is now topping the list of mobile app downloads with the assistance of GetJar's app store. … [Read more...]
The big battle between fierce rivals Google and Facebook is set to heat up as the search engine's CFO Patrick Pichette, said that they are planning to target social media as part of its growth strategy. … [Read more...]
If you are a user of Facebook, chances are you’ve used Facebook chat. For those who haven’t used the feature, it enables real time chat between users who are logged into Facebook. However, in order to use Facebook chat, you have to be logged into Facebook and keep a browser window open at all … [Read more...]
Verizon has given their smartphone the Droid 2 Global a mention on the social network Facebook. On their Facebook page, Verizon Wireless posted details such as pricing and features on the recently released Droid. … [Read more...]
Now most of you guys have probably read the news surrounding the Pastor Cedric Miller who tried to encourage his congregation to quit Facebook, this is due to his belief that he has seen many marriages harmed by the social networking giant.Perhaps he has a point, some people who cannot control … [Read more...]
If you take Christmas out of the equation, knowing what to buy your teenager is hard enough at the best of times be it, a birthday or a celebratory gift. But now with some special gadgets available, you can breathe a sigh of relief as this might all be about to change. Mashable has reported on … [Read more...]
We’ve already seen part of his life depicted in “The Social Network” movie, and now it looks like Facebook fans will be able to learn more about the popular social networking website’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a new animated movie titled “Mark Zuckerberg and The Found.” … [Read more...]
REI, developers of Snow and Ski Report has just given their app a major update after it's great success over the past two years. The app which is downloadable from iTunes is available for iPhone and iPod Touch. … [Read more...]
Justin Bieber, one of the hottest pop stars currently around is now going on tour in the UK. On Monday he announced news of some UK dates via his Twitter page, but we can report that tickets went on sale today. Along with this, social networking sites have been rife with information surrounding … [Read more...]
Well previously we brought you some news saying that MySpace would be adding the connect button across their website. Well, MySpace has officially given up… now you can login to MySpace using a Facebook login… Not only that, but you can also synchronize your status updates between both sites … [Read more...]
According to comScore who has provided data to Mashable, Facebook’s traffic has grown by around 55% within the last year in the US. Today Facebook has over 500 million users with around half of them using the site daily, 1 in every 6 WebPages searched is a Facebook page. So why has there been such … [Read more...]
News has come through today that two of the biggest names in social networking may be working together. Yes, we are only talking about Facebook and Twitter. At the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, reports have said the two giants came face to face and discussed how they could … [Read more...]
So how is China being able to manipulate Internet traffic, apparently back on April 8th there was a re-routing through a Chinese telecoms company that is state owned. The re-routing lasted for around 18 minutes. During this small time frame, the hijacking affected US military and government networks … [Read more...]
Willow Palin – the daughter of former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and younger sister of “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Bristol Palin – appears to have got herself into a bit of trouble recently, after she supposedly lashed out at someone on Facebook using homophobic slurs. … [Read more...]
For any of you who worry what your kids or younger brothers and sisters get up to on Facebook you need to stay here and carry on reading this as it could help. Over at The Globe And Mail Amber Macarthur tells the story of how she was talking at the dinner table about Facebook and one woman that was … [Read more...]
Could MySpace really be using Facebook Connect? It seems that was seeing as the pair has invited various media to a GoToMeeting webinar. You would have thought that being the giants in the social media world they would have had what ever meetings they would have then announce it on both of their … [Read more...]
Back in September, Matt at OSM spoke about Facebook Credits being available in US stores such as Target, Best Buy and Walmart. The new gift card currency allows the customer to purchase virtual objects from Facebook such as games, gifts and goods within your apps. Today news has come through that … [Read more...]
It seems that social media is being brought into launching of cars and everything else more and more, previously we brought you an article on how the new Cross Cabriolet Murano was launched on Facebook but it seems that their competitors are catching on … [Read more...]
First we had FarmVille, now we have CityVille, this is all thanks to Zynga who for those of you who don’t know are a social network game developer. The new game will be launched on Facebook where Zynga will be hoping to find the same success that they had with FarmVille … [Read more...]
With Black Friday fast approaching we have brought you many different Ad Scans so far. Just to name a few that we have shown you, Macy’s, Sam’s Club, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Tommy Hilfiger and Walmart but now we are bringing you Target’s Black Friday hub, but the social media factor has also been … [Read more...]
With the run up to Christmas and the start of 2011, now is the time for businesses and their social media developments to be looked into. Recently with online social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, consumers have had the accessibility to source fantastic coupons and deals, whilst … [Read more...]
Happy National Unfriend Day! November 17th is the day when the unofficial holiday that sees you remove fake friends from your social network takes place. So get onto your Facebook or other social network account and get rid off those people you are virtual friends with but hate in real life or … [Read more...]
