Category: Facebook
Facebook adds "Listen With Friends" social music service
Facebook have announced a new social music feature, rolling out across their network today, called "Listen With Friends". Music fans on Facebook will now be able to see what their pals are listening to from within the Facebook Chat pane,…
Moo introduce Facebook Timeline business cards for offline networking
Designed to "bridge the gap between online and offline" social networking, buisness card firm Moo.com are today introducing a line that capitalizes on all the snazzy pictures you've added to the new Facebook Timeline. Each card can have a separate…
Lady Gaga Twitter/Facebook hack offered millions of free iPad 2 tablets
Lady Gaga is the latest celebrity to see her social networking accounts hacked by scammers. One of the true "Twitterati" with over 17 million Twitter followers and 45 million Facebook "Likes", the Bad Romance star fell foul to a…
Facebook Timeline now available to all
The Facebook Timeline update has finally began rolling out to all users across the globe, with lucky folks in New Zealand the first to get their hands on the new-look social network. Announced at the f8 developers conference alongside the…
Facebook's top topics for 2011: TOWIE more talked about than Gaddafi, Bin Laden deaths in UK
Facebook have revealed the most often-discussed topics on their social network for 2011. Ranking topics based on the amount of times they appeared in status updates across the year, the top global lists are a mixture of major news events…
Facebook buys Gowalla, aims for location-based dominance *UPDATE* Facebook make confirmation statement
Facebook, the social-network overlords of our personal lives online, have bought out up-and-coming location based network Gowalla. Gowalla's location check-in service will be integrated into Facebook's newest "Timeline" homepage interface, allowing people to more precisely attach a location to…
Google see Siri as a threat to their search business
It has only been a matter of weeks since the iPhone 4S was released but already it has made an impression on Google Chairman Eric Schidt. The functionality of Apple's voice command technology, Siri, has made Schmidt admit that…
Facebook in cookie tracking row once more
Facebook have come under fire from a German watchdog group following allegations that the world's largest social network aer using cookies to create tracking profiles of users without their consent, allowing the network to keep tabs on a user's web-browsing…
Students realise internet is real: concern of internet follies harming job prospects
News flash: the internet isn't some otherwordly place of no consequence to the "real" world. What happens on the internet does NOT stay on the internet, it will follow you around. 42% of students are becoming concerned that some…
Rebel or Obey: Anti-Facebook network Unthink is here
Rebel or Obey? Freedom or Control? Inspire or Oppress? Emancipate yourself! Welcome to Unthink, a new social network set up as a contrast to Facebook. It's just opened up to the first round of beta testers, aiming to provide…