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Since the sad news was announced at the weekend that music artist “Amy Winehouse” had passed away, the internet has been a rife of activity. The 27-year old was pronounced dead on Saturday due to her taking what is believed to be a cocktail of alcohol and drugs. Whatever public opinion is of … [Read more...]
Many of the founders and CEOs of today's big companies are amongst the top media personalities, as this year's top 100 list will show you. The swift uprising of social networking and media has propelled the world's leaders in that field up to the top. As a result, Mark Zuckerberg has been voted … [Read more...]
As regular OSM readers will already know we regularly add articles that talk about the scams that are becoming more and more frequent on our beloved social networking website Facebook. Now we are hearing of another FB scam titled “Dad Drops His Daughter to Try to Catch A Baseball on LIVE TV!” … [Read more...]
Facebook has flexed its legal muscles again to knock away another petty legal challenge from the Winklevoss twins. You may be aware of this long running saga from 2010's movie, The Social Network. The brothers and their business partner claim that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea when creating … [Read more...]
These dirty Facebook crooks are so quick off the mark; they lay in wait of a massive world event or even a celebrity death and try to use it in a way to better themselves. We have seen the same thing happening time and time again; literally the day after the tragic passing of Ryan Dunn there was a … [Read more...]
It seems that almost every day there seems to be another Facebook Scam to report lately and many people are being caught out by these global scams that circulate through social networking. These scams are always bad enough but the latest of these FB scam’s exploits human misery and suffering as … [Read more...]
For all Facebook users out there who are also fans of Showtime's Dexter and like to kill spare time, you are in for a treat. A whole social game based on Dexter is coming to Facebook soon, being launched at the same time as the 6th season premiere. It will allow you to play as the serial killer … [Read more...]
Yesterday was a devastating day in Norway’s history with two deadly attacks taking place, firstly a huge bombing in the capital Oslo, followed by a second attack this time a shooting spree on the island of Utoya, close to Oslo. Last night we told how news of what had happened was being spread … [Read more...]
The rise of social networking in the past few years has been caused by a growing desire to connect with people easily quickly and safely. Not only can you interact with your friends over the web you can also connect with your idols. Many celebrities use social networking sites like Facebook and … [Read more...]
Twitter is looking to get bigger by injecting its wings with a chunky $800 million funding round. The popular microblogging service is steadily growing but is still way behind Facebook, with Google+ even coming in now to stir up some serious social competition. Facebook received a similar … [Read more...]
We at OSM often report about the different social networks that there are including LinkedIn, Twitter and now Google+, but there’s one that is in the news for the wrong reasons… Facebook. As things stand, the site currently has a few problems; one of them is that the new Facebook Chat Sidebar … [Read more...]
It’s a good day for those of you who enjoy the experience of social gaming. Earlier today we told of a new game on Facebook, Happy Oasis, a game in a similar vein to FarmVille but aimed at the Middle East market. Now we have news of another new social game on Facebook, this time it’s called … [Read more...]
Regular readers of OSM will know that we often report on the different nasty scams that circulate on the world’s largest social network Facebook. Some of the recent reports include the Google+ invitations scam and another one titled “Fan dies after fall at Rangers game [Video].” Now we have … [Read more...]
For those of you who love social gaming such as CityVille and FarmVille on Facebook, we have news today of a new kid on the block which may have escape your attention so far, Happy Oasis. This new Facebook game has been described as FarmVille for the Middle East and has already attracted over … [Read more...]
At OSM we enjoy keeping you up to date with the latest news that enters the world in terms of technology and also social media. Whilst everyone is going nuts about Google+ and the problems with Facebook chat we thought it was a good time to bring you our weekly roundup of Facebook scams that we have … [Read more...]
Social networking site Twitter initially launched back in 2006 and has now just celebrated a massive 200 million tweep record, along with some 350,000 tweets (messages) being sent on a daily basis. It might have a little way to go to beat rival Facebook and may even struggle against new networking … [Read more...]
Back when Twitter started to emerge on the social networking scene, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg planned to buy them out. We never heard the full details of what went on, but the Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams have now come out and told the story. Stone, Williams and Zuckerberg all … [Read more...]
Top of social networking sites is of course Facebook but we ask ourselves, for how much longer? Of course there's rival Twitter which has now celebrated some 200 million followers with an approximate 600,000 new sign-ups a day and the newest addition that of Google+. As many of you who currently … [Read more...]
How the world has changed in such a short space of time! The arrival and ever-growing impact of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter has led to a complete change in the way we receive news and increasingly the first time we hear or see something is through a social media channel. That … [Read more...]
Regular readers will know that all of us at OSM have a passion for social networking especially around the big ones such as Twitter, Facebook and the new Google+. One of them in particular seems to be over and over again with different types of scam and that network is Facebook. The latest FB scam … [Read more...]
We have been checking out Google+ over the last week or so and we are pretty impressed with it so far. More and more people are joining up to the new social network and we are now wondering if Facebook’s Chat and other problems will push their users to Google+ … [Read more...]
As we all know, social networking is big big business right now. Google knew this and as a result recently brought out their new service Google Plus to try and take on Facebook. It now seems that Microsoft are secretly trying to get in on the act, after accidentally leaking a splash page online. … [Read more...]
At OSM we’ve been keeping readers informed with developments over the newest social network, Google+, sometimes referred to as Google Plus. Some may have wondered if there was room for yet another social network but as times change and social networking becomes ever more prevalent it seems that … [Read more...]
Google+ social networking which has in some ways been compared to Facebook, has just launched and has already attracted some 10 million if not more users. Although the two sites will coexist alongside one another, we asked just the other day, whether the two can work together and get on or whether … [Read more...]
Regular readers of OSM will be aware that we strive to talk to you about the latest Facebook scams that circulate on the world’s largest network. Some of the ones we have reported on recently include the Google+ invites scam and the apparent video of the fan that died at the Rangers game. Now we … [Read more...]
