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There’s little reason to explain what social media is nowadays, seeing how we’re simply bombarded by social channels from all directions. Truth be it, social media isn’t quite entirely new. It’s been on the web since its early days actually, ever since the first forums and blogs surfaced. Twitter, facebook, tumblr and the likes have [...]
Wed, Jan 16, 2013
There are some 30 million facebook updates pushed on the massive social network every hour, so it might seem like common sense for most of us to dismiss these as trivial. Scientists at University of Warwick and UC San Diego however chose not to ignore these fleeting, yet direct text updates and actually found some interesting [...]
Tue, Dec 4, 2012
Five days ago, I was checking my email account and noticed that there was a notice from Facebook, titled “Updates to Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.” The policy changes cover how Facebook uses data from people who use the social network as well as the terms that oversee how people use [...]
Tue, Nov 15, 2011
A staggering malicious attempt has left facebook with “walls” filled with explicit pornographic photos over night. So far, staff has been hard at work cleaning up facebook accounts all over the web, but it seems they have their work cut out for them. The images include hardcore porn, a dead dog, extreme violence and even [...]
Wed, Jul 13, 2011
The leading social network in the world has unveiled yesterday Facebook for Every Phone, a mobile app designed to offer easy access to Facebook users in every corner of the globe and 2500 different handheld devices. This means moving Facebook to users in the developing world, as well, that do not have access to smartphones [...]
Mon, Jul 4, 2011
Seeing how Microsoft has a strong relation with Facebook, owning a good lead of shares and famously integrating its search engine Bing into the social network, a real integration between Skype and Facebook seemed like the logical next step in the social game. As such, Facebook is reportedly about to launch a new video chat [...]
Thu, Jun 9, 2011
How do you feel about your facebook friends ? I like them; some are my good friends in real life, some are just people I know, and I have only a vague idea who some of my facebook friends are. But this woman loves them all; she loves them so much that she permanently inked [...]
Wed, May 25, 2011
The next generation of mobile OS from Microsoft will improve communications, apps and access to the Internet, company officials say, at an event in New York City this week, where the company introduced a plethora of new features for its next Windows Phone 7 operating system. At the NYC event, Microsoft demonstrated some new features [...]
Mon, May 23, 2011
Even though Facebook is already filled with underage children, and acording to a facebook depression study, kids are often negatively affected by the social media site, their intention is to spread their wings even further, and catch a whole new segment of the market (as they put it). CNN Money reports that Facebook founder Mark [...]
Wed, May 11, 2011
Twitter prides itself in connecting the world and sharing everybody’s thoughts from every corner of the world, especially when it comes to news. But is this really true, or is this just a branding and marketing stunt ? According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Twitter accounts [...]
Tue, May 10, 2011
According to a recently published study, teens who regularly drink alcohol tend to spend more time on a computer surfing the internet on social networking sites, than other teens who don’t drink alcohol. As a conclusion that both somewhat bashes ‘nowadays teens’ and the Internet, the study concludes that a link between teenage drinking and [...]
Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Along the years, everything that Google has touched turned to gold; everything, except for social media. But with social media being already a central piece of the internet, and with facebook growing and already threatening the search engine giant on some matters, Google will have to get that right too, and we will probably see [...]
Fri, Apr 1, 2011
In a recent blog post, Lee Byron, a Facebook product designed officially reveals to the world that facebook’s mobile versions of the popular social network, touch.facebook.com (for high-end touch phone users), m.facebook.com (the standard facebook for feature phones) and 0.facebook.com (light version for slower devices), will wrapped up into one single spot on m.facebook.com and [...]
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
In 1985 Weird Science came out, a movie in which two highly geeky teens manage to create the woman of their dreams and bring her to life, much like a really hot Frankestein. Today, with less fiction in mind a new start-up called cloudgirlfriend.com markets itself as a service which will assist you in creating [...]
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
In a recently published study by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), it seems that teen angst is evident in the online world as well, as researchers believe there’s a clear evidence of a “facebook depression” effect. It’s considered that more than 70% of American teens and young-adult who have an active internet connection use [...]
Wed, Feb 16, 2011
As protests throughout the Islamic world continue to spread like wildfire, the ones in Egypt remain extremely interesting from a specific point of view, that of the internet. The internet played a very important role, especially social media; but that role couldn’t have been played if it weren’t for Google employee Wael Ghonim, head of [...]
Thu, Oct 21, 2010
Back in 2007 the Redmond corporate giant managed to acquire a small share of Facebook for a whooping $250 mil deal after incredibly stiff and harsh negotiations. Microsoft’s interest in Facebook continued, and the two are currently collaborating in hope of standing a chance against Google and capitalizing on the search market. At the beginning [...]
Wed, Dec 2, 2009
Facebook has already caused a major revolution in the way people regard social interaction, but really not much has been said about what your Facebook profile can say about you. It would seem obvious that people make their profiles to portray an idealized version of themselves, augmenting the parts they want augmented and eliminating the [...]
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