Tag Archives : Social network

Presenting An All New Photo Managing Apple iPad App, The Fotoboard

Presenting An All New Photo Managing Apple iPad App, The Fotoboard

The native photo management of Apple iPad is less than satisfactory and offers only limited functionality as compared to third party applications. The same is the situation with the iPhone and even with the introduction of the all new Apple iOS 5, Apple Inc. has till now failed to address the issue. Now, an all-new application has hit the Apple Apps [...]
Twitter will add paid tweets in timelines

Twitter will add paid tweets in timelines

Twitter started placing advertisements on the timeline, according to the Financial Times. The addition of the “paid tweets” – a euphemism for advertising – the service can frustrate many users, while also attracts companies that want to reach some of the roughly 300 million users. Twitter executives have met with strategists [...]
OpenStudy: the social network to study

OpenStudy: the social network to study

  If would depend of OpenStudy on the hours and hours you spend unproductive gossiping and stalking the lives of others in social networks can be transformed into productive study time. The idea of the site is to enable the functioning of study groups in an online massively multiplayer environment. Yes, the term “massively multiplayer” [...]
250 thousand profiles were “stolen” from Facebook

250 thousand profiles were “stolen” from Facebook

Who watched ‘The Social Network‘ should remember Mark Zuckerberg hacking sites for pictures of his colleagues at Harvard for an early prototype of Facebook, in order to evaluate who the most beautiful on the university. Likewise, Zuckerberg did when was young, the creators of Face-to-site Facebook.net ‘scraped’ data and photographs [...]
Live Messenger and Facebook together

Live Messenger and Facebook together

Takes effect today the full integration between Facebook and Live Messenger, Microsoft’s instant messenger. Since September 2010 the Messenger users in 13 countries were able to interact with their Facebook contacts. The difference now is the Messenger function within the social network of Mark Zuckerberg, as an application. The user needs from [...]
Twitter introduces “Connections”

Twitter introduces “Connections”

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 [...]
Social Network Performs Outstandingly At The Golden Globe Awards

Social Network Performs Outstandingly At The Golden Globe Awards

Social Network, the proverbial biography of one of the biggest social networks on the web, Facebook, not only captivated audience world wide, but now has outdone itself at the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, as the movie claimed the ‘Best Picture‘ award along with three other Golden Globe awards. This extravagant ceremony honored the [...]
What Spot Now: the last word in geolocation

What Spot Now: the last word in geolocation

Who has not wished the trappings of technological movies secret agents that show where the villains, or someone says “I need a GPS“, after getting lost for more than 1 hour in traffic in your city? And social networks then have a talk to who I am, another to share what I’m doing, and now where I am. Increasingly, geolocation is no [...]
Formspring has its own button now

Formspring has its own button now

Formspring, a service that allows you to send questions anonymously to a user, introduced a new feature to its platform. This is the “Answer” button. With it, any user with an account registered in Formspring may publish its opinion on an article, photo or video posted on the web. Then, the answers are indexed in the user profile. The expectation [...]
Possible Facebook investors receveid financial data of the social network

Possible Facebook investors receveid financial data of the social network

Clients of Goldman Sachs interested in investing in Facebook received financial information about the social network Thursday. Copies of the private placement memorandum for an investment in Facebook started to be personally delivered to millionaires customers at Goldman Sachs shortly after the lunch break in New York, said sources who received a copy [...]