Tag: facebook
Blog About Palestine Day aims to raise awareness
An interesting grassroots initiative to get people talking. "There are no restrictions on what you can write, or the language that you can use. Really, anything that talks about Palestine, or the Palestinians;...
Google announces Friend Connect
Google announced Monday that many of its applications will soon be importable on non-Google websites via a new service called Friend Connect.As one Google spokesperson put it, webmasters will have a "salt shaker full...
Facebook water fight destroys Millennium Square G...
The Millennium Square Garden, in Leeds, has been destroyed by hundreds of Facebook users as a result of a water fight bringing them all together by the social network site. "Today's social networks have an...
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
Tech bloggers are a bit like navel-gazing, neurotic, trying-so-hard-to-be-cool-that-it-hurts high school kids, aren't they? "Oh poor me! I'm just, like, way too popular for Facebook. Oh my god, 5,000 friends? That...
MySpace lets users take profile data outside site...
This seems to be a retraction to my previous post." MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.MySpace said it will kick off a "data...
The future of online social gaming can be found i...
"Yesterday the 8th Facebook developers garage took place which was hosted at the Sun Microsystems conference center. The second main speaker was successful games industry CEO Kristian Segerstrale of Playfish.His...
Hitwise: MySpace Takes 3/4ths of US Social Networ...
Although there are competing metrics that tell different stories, it looks like Myspace is still the 800 lb gorilla of social networking in North America."According to web measurement firm Hitwise, MySpace commands 73.82% of all social networking traffic. The data comes from...
Microsoft plays Pacman: Facebook next?
After failing to gobble up Yahoo, Microsoft turns its face to FaceBook.Whatdaya think the 70,000,000 Facebook members think?"SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition...
Facebook Developer Community Sees Decline
Well, this one feels like a validation of something we already knew was happening. Maybe some are tired of asking the question, 'has facebook jumped the shark?'. Makes you start looking for the slightest evidence of...
Twitter down over there! No, literally.
Twitter might have gone fown for more than 37 hours in the first four months of 2008 -- working out to roughly 9 hours / month -- but even that can't seem to stop twitchy microblogging-junkies from twittering at...
Should I Facebook My Mom?
A piece I wrote for the Tyee, an independent online news magazine in Vancouver:"Facebook is different things to different people. It's a social planner, news aggregator, gossip generator, procrastination enabler,...
BBC Scares Everyone in the World off Facebook
Old media strikes back!"The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have...
Researchers Studying 'Texting' as its own Language
Oh how I long for someone to release a mashed-up, remixed version of that early-90s Color Me Badd hit...reimagined as "I Wanna Txt U Up".Those crazy kids, they're using their telephones for writing! What will they...
BBC Exposes Risk of Identity Theft on Facebook
Facebook users appear to be not only a very trusting bunch, but also avid adopters of add-on application that clutter up their profile pages while stealthily stealing their personal information.The BBC spent a...
