Tech and social media news
Just over a month ago, the news that many had been wishing for actually came true, that same-sex marriages were finally going to be legalised across some states in America, New York being the sixth state. The decision was reached by the New York Senate after which a massive following of people … [Read more...]
Back in May the world first heard about the death of Osama Bin Laden and we told about immediate social media reactions, how the raid that found him was reported live on Twitter, Twitter stats about the death and much more. Today we have heard that C.I.A. John, a man integral to the hunt and … [Read more...]
Here at OSM we regularly keep you updated with the big social networking sites, with Twitter being one in particular. We have recently brought you a chart of the top 10 trending topics on the site this week, as well as the news that Twitter's CEO is joining Barack Obama's advisory committee. It … [Read more...]
So which social network do you think came out tops in a rating of most-mentioned websites and social media services? You may guess Twitter or Facebook but in fact the top place on the list for 2010 goes to YouTube in the Zeta 2010 Buzz Awards which looks at the popularity of 125 social media sites. … [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...]
Yesterday at OSM, we reported on the British Royal Family joining Facebook, well not them individually but an official page set up to list events, speeches, where they would be at any given time and so on. This morning at 8 am the page was launched and saw an amazing response. … [Read more...]
I’ve just started up at university again, and if there’s one thing that modern students depend on, it’s Facebook. We use it to communicate, organise events and share photographs and other images. Countless photo albums filled with student exploits will be filling up Facebook’s servers this … [Read more...]
The image hosting website Flickr has announced that it has reached a massive milestone, as a user uploaded photo number 5 billion.The user yeoaaron, unsuspectingly had the honor of uploading the photo that caps off a giant landmark in the sites history. The famous photo was of Woodward’s … [Read more...]
Nowadays most, if not all, of your photos are eventually destined to arrive on one social network or another. Facebook, Flickr and services that allow you to post photo’s to Twitter are great ways to share your pictures with the world. Now Kodak is making sharing even easier, since they have … [Read more...]
In a recent survey carried out on workers using social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace at work, it gave some interesting results. When research was carried out by MyJobGroup.co.uk on 1,000 UK employees, it found that an astonishing 6% or 2 million of the UK’s 34 million … [Read more...]
Flickr, the image and video hosting website which is an ideal site for users to share and embed personal photos, is now after three weeks of redesign offering its new service to all of its users. The new redesign with three new aspects to it will include, the navigation, the context behind photos … [Read more...]
Over the past few years the British Royal Family has tried to modernize itself in a number of ways, their latest venture is by sharing their family photos on social networking site Flickr. This latest move will help to complement its already large online presence that they already enjoy on YouTube … [Read more...]
As everybody knows yesterday was 4th of July and in the U.S, that’s a very special day, Independence Day. It means festivities, traditions, parades, parties, barbecues, and so much more, but probably the thing that most Americans think of when they think of the fourth of July is fireworks. … [Read more...]
NASA are at the top of their game when it comes to technology, so comes as no surprise to learn that they have embraced social media. This was evident with how fast NASA uploaded all of its Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity details on to Facebook – this led to a number of other space probes … [Read more...]
