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During the course of last year, the way in which you used social media has expanded, allowing a large percentage of you to now have the opportunity to view events LIVE. Online social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have all given us the accessibility to catch the action as it … [Read more...]
Facebook has become one of the largest companies in the world, even more so since its investment from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies. It has also become what some may call a great ‘Snooping’ tool … [Read more...]
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, had one heck of a 2010 being named as TIME Person of the Year and Facebook continues to go from strength-to-strength with news yesterday that it was to receive $500 million of investment, the majority coming from Goldman Sachs, and today we learned of a record number … [Read more...]
CES 2011 is going to be upon us in a few days time and whilst we have reported on various products and technologies that will be appearing, we haven’t spoken to much to you too much about what social media and social networking you should expect … [Read more...]
A couple of days ago we told you about the rather dismal future that seems to be facing MySpace, the social networking site which is seeing falling amounts of users and revenue despite a recent revamp in a bid to renew interest. … [Read more...]
Social networking giant Facebook continues to be the focus of more news, every day it seems, and just a couple of our recent posts include the use of Facebook to catch a thief and how Goldman Sachs is to invest $450 million in Facebook. Now we have details for you of just how popular the Photos … [Read more...]
With the 2011 Detroit Auto Show set to start on January 10, 2010 fans of the event will be visiting the official Facebook and Twitter page to keep fully up-to-date. Over the past few years auto shows such as this have been using social networking services to offer details much faster than ever … [Read more...]
We hear an awful lot of negative things regarding privacy concerns about social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter but we sometimes forget that the latest technology can also have very positive uses. In the last couple of months we’ve posted stories about a thief caught by using … [Read more...]
Apart from expressing your thoughts and ideas to those nearest and dearest, do you feel that you want to burst and share all your interesting facts with other people. If the answer is yes then there may be an app available to help you with your quest. Its none other than the Facto.Me app available … [Read more...]
Earlier today we told how Twitter had turned down a $500 million offer from Facebook back in 2008 and gave some statistics such as how Twitter now has over 175 million users and around 95 million tweets are sent every day. Now we have some more amazing statistics for you about the popular … [Read more...]
YouTube, the video sharing site originally founded back in 2005, has now become increasingly popular with users being able to upload, share and watch their favorite videos. During last year, the site became a great way for pop stars to show off their latest music videos, and companies to advertise … [Read more...]
Following on from our previous article about Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail problems, with emails going missing and users not being able to access their emails, we are hearing reports that the issue has been resolved … [Read more...]
With 2011 now here, it is time to have a look at what the final trends of 2010 were. Last week we had Christmas as our top trend and now we are bringing you the final list of hot topics, thanks to Mashable. … [Read more...]
It seems only weeks ago that we were telling you about the launch of CityVille, the new game on Facebook developed by Zynga who created the phenomenally successful FarmVille game, and only a few days ago we reported on CityVille vs. FarmVille and asked which was better. … [Read more...]
Twitter is certainly growing and Facebook is the 2010 most searched for website and the most searched term, however many doctors are worried about them being used in the medical industry. They tend to stick to phone calls and face-to-face interactions … [Read more...]
We have already reported that Facebook is the most searched for website and searched for term on the Internet. Now we are reporting on what happens every 20 minutes on Facebook … [Read more...]
For some time now, we have heard various reports about how excessive computer use can affect us, be it physically or mentally. It has been suggested in the past that long periods of gaming and use of the internet can both contribute to unhealthy distraction. To gain any understanding of this, a … [Read more...]
Hotmail is the most widely used email service in the world; it currently has 360 million users. It has been around for a long time. It originally came onto the web in 1996 and a year later was acquired by Microsoft for around $400 million … [Read more...]
MySpace, what has become of thee? It used to be the biggest social media group however things have changes as they always do. At the peak time of MySpace’s reign you would never have thought they would be in the position they are now … [Read more...]
Google is now pretty well known for changing it‘s logo from their conventional one on special occasions. To name a few of our favorites so far through 2010, we have seen the popular search engine dedicated to Oscar Wilde, Halloween (where Scooby Doo helped out), and the 115th anniversary of the … [Read more...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Experian has been doing all its fancy work again, pulling in the figures for lots of different things. Have you ever wondered what the most searched for term is? There must be a few out there that you would guess at … [Read more...]
Remember back on December 22nd when we had that big Skype Outage, well Lars Rabbe has written a post mortem on the problem over on the Skype blog. He gives an in depth explanation of each part of the problem … [Read more...]
All around the world in just a few days time, we will be saying goodbye to 2010 and celebrating yet another year with plenty of new year's resolutions. But whatever your plans are, GetGlue, the social networking site for up to date entertainment news, with the collaboration of stations CNN and MTV … [Read more...]
When you have been browsing your Facebook and all of a sudden in the corner of your screen you see a friend or relative’s birthday, have you ever wanted to do more than just send them a nice message to words of the effect “Happy Birthday”? Well now you can with Keepsy. The site allows you … [Read more...]
Everybody knows there is a lot of money involved in the world of Social Media and Social Networking. We reported previously that Twitter had become worth $3 billion along with Facebook's previous valuation. We didn’t think it would be quite as much of an increase as this though … [Read more...]
