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Facebook Timeline goes live
Posted on Dec 15 2011 08:46 PM by xper in Social
The world's largest social network announced Timeline in September, and now it's available worldwide. The feature replaces current user profiles and dramatically overhauls how information is shared on the service. "It's a way to te...
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Google Hangouts Go Mobile
Posted on Dec 14 2011 07:56 PM by xper in Social
As Google continues to develop its social networking service, Google+, the company is betting on easier video conferencing as the way to engage users. On Wednesday, Google introduced several enhancements to Hangouts, the group video chat service i...
Four Things Google Plus Could Do To Fix Google Plus
Posted on Jul 25 2011 08:38 AM by xper in Social
Saturday’s Google+ user account deletion purge plunged the new social network into a crisis of user trust. The community wants it fixed. Saturday’s deletion of multiple Google+ user accounts spanned from well-known tech figures to ordinary netizen...
Google+ to hit 10,000,000 users today, could double by...
Posted on Jul 13 2011 08:45 AM by xper in Social
Google+ is growing. The new social network by the search giant is expected to pass the 10 million user mark today, even while the service remains in invite-only beta. Google launched its social experiment just 2 weeks ago, but it has been expandin...
U.S. Law Enforcement Obtaining Warrants to Search Face...
Posted on Jul 13 2011 08:42 AM by xper in Social
U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users' accounts without their knowledge.A Reuters review of the Westlaw legal database shows that since 2008, federal judges...
Facebook blocks contact-exporting tool
Posted on Jul 05 2011 07:39 AM by xper in Social
Facebook has been blocking a tool to let people extract contact information their friends have shared with them, the tool's developer said today--but he's working on a way to evade Facebook's restrictions. "Facebook is trying so ha...
Chrome Extension Imports Facebook Friends to Google+
Posted on Jul 04 2011 07:22 PM by xper in Social
The world is already abuzz about Google+, even though it's not accessible to most. Still, many doubt that anyone, even the mighty one from Mountain View, can catch up to Facebook's half a billion (at least) active users. Unless, maybe ther...
Spammers hit Google+ fans with fake invites
Posted on Jul 04 2011 03:08 PM by xper in Social
Cyber criminals have reacted in typically speedy fashion to the launch of Google's new social networking service by spamming out fake invitations in an attempt to promote pharmaceutical web sites.Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Clul...
Google+: Good Stuff if You Can Get it
Posted on Jul 04 2011 02:47 PM by xper in Social
Google+ is awesome. Or -- at least -- I'm assuming it is. Although I've had an invitation to join Google's social networking experiment for several days, every time I attempt to check out the service I'm told "We've tempora...
Twitter launches automatic link shortening
Posted on Jun 08 2011 05:59 AM by xper in Social
Twitter has begun automatically shortening URLs pasted into tweets by its users, the microblogging site announced today. When users compose a tweet and paste a link of any length into the Tweet box, Twitter will automatically abbreviate the link t...
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of user...
Posted on Jun 08 2011 05:45 AM by xper in Social
When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only. Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy sett...
Facebook adds new user security features
Posted on May 12 2011 03:48 PM by xper in Social
Facebook is launching several new security features today designed to protect users from malware and from getting their accounts hijacked. First, the site will display warnings when users are about to be duped by clickjacking and cross-site script...
Facebook Could Change Telephones Forever
Posted on Feb 15 2011 09:47 PM by xper in Social
There is no Facebook phone, the world's largest social network told everyone firmly last year. Instead, the company said this afternoon, there are "dozens" of phones that will include a deep software integration with Facebook features ...
Skype status: login does not work (yet)
Posted on Dec 22 2010 06:20 PM by xper in Social
All of us who waited very patiently to get skype on our android phones are just reminded how is it to lost skype service (even for few hours), According to Skype’s own heartbeat blog , “Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype. We apologi...
Google's Rumored Facebook Competitor Delayed, Repo...
Posted on Dec 01 2010 10:50 PM by xper in Social
A social network project that tech giant Google is rumored to be working on is experiencing delays that have pushed back the launch until spring 2011, tech blog Mashable reported Tuesday. Google's social initiative -- rumored to be called ...
Twitter Helps You Find More Friends With New "Peop...
Posted on Nov 19 2010 03:09 PM by xper in Social
Twitter is testing a new People tab, positioned next to the Home, Profile and Messages tabs on the home page. The new feature suggests friends for you, lets you browse Twitter users through interests, or find new Twitter buddies through other serv...
Facebook rumoured to be launching Gmail rival
Posted on Nov 12 2010 03:37 PM by xper in Social
Facebook could launch an email application on its site on Monday in a direct move to compete with Google in the rising enterprise use of public email services. According to reports, the Project Titan service will be launched next week after media ...
Microsoft Signs Bing Deal With Facebook, Twitter
Posted on Oct 21 2009 12:01 PM by xper in Social
Microsoft made waves today with the announcement that they signed two separate, non-exclusive deals with <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091021/exclusive-guess-who-else-is-coming-to-dinner-twitter-microsoft-bing-deal-confirmed-but-so...


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