Tag Archives : Online Communities

Executives from Facebook, Google and other companies have held talks with Twitter about a possible purchase of the microblogging service, bringing its estimated value to around 10 billion dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. The value is high for a company whose revenues were only $ 45 million last year, posted a loss, and estimated that [...]

Twitter introduced on Thursday its new “Connections”, which allows users to find people they know and with mutual friends. The tool replaces the old “Followed by,” that showed which of your friends followed certain person, and “BOTH follow you,” indicating which profiles were followed by you and people here. In the [...]

If the name is not Kevin Rose tells you nothing, may become better known if I tell you who was the founder of the popular Digg service. Last year, Digg founder Kevin Rose was mulling over a new video show called fforward. Fforward never released, but the idea was to transform into something else. He launched a private newsletter, at a cost of $ 3.99 [...]

We are constantly present in social networks, but we cannot realize all the information we pass on our contacts. There are thousands of links, videos and photos shared on our network, and raid the day, we cannot see everything that is shared with us. But who wishes to see everything that your friends and followers find interesting, a simple tool on [...]

Bit.ly is an online service that allows you to shorten the address of web pages. In fact, the service replaces a link for any one link much smaller. After all, the site has a short name and it is easy to memorize. After creating the link in Bit.ly, just click on it to access the contents of the old link. Thus, it is possible to shorten the web links [...]

The API TweeDeck, to use the microblogging service Twitter, arrived yesterday to version 0.36.1. With the software, which is still beta, you can see the tweets as soon as someone send them. In the blog, the company also said that there was a lot of fixes, including the correct positioning of RTs in the user interface and support for messages over 140 [...]

Keep updated profile on Twitter is a real challenge for some. Maintain profiles on Twitter and Facebook, it is impossible for many. To make things easier, many people connected Twitter to Facebook, the social network for sending all that is published in the microblog, without distinction. This practice is abhorred by many people due to excessive noise [...]

Facebook announced on Wednesday new features on its platform. Among them is the possibility of performing a backup of the information that is in the user profile, a panel for application management and also the creation of groups. The first new displays is the possibility of performing a backup of all information that is in the user profile, including [...]

For those who live in the United States became even easier to follow a profile on Twitter – is no longer even need the service account or access the site. Just use the Fast Follow, an option that allows you to receive text messages on the phone with the content of the tweets of the desired profile. Enabling Fast Follow is simple – just [...]

With so many things we have in this digital world, a question that always remains is: what happens when I die? Before you think that social networks on the topic, many profiles have been turned into memorials, some were excluded by family and friends who may know the password, or were left in the air, with no updates and no visits. However, Twitter [...]