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Mark Zuckerburg and the Facebook team are on the fast track to getting a trademark on the word ‘face’. The word ‘book’ however, is proving to be a bit more of a challenge.
The word ‘book’ has already been claimed by an online company called myeworkbook.com. Their claim on the word is as a result of their business which is… Read more
Tiger Woods Twitter account, @TigerWoods, has been dormant for quite sometime. Recently his almost 120,000 followers have been graced with one of his five tweets and Tiger has decided to dust off his Twitter account as he “Finally decided to try out twitter!”
His Twitter account was opened in 2009 but has been inactive most of the past year… Read more
Everyone likes to have a good time but some individuals go over the edge and leave inappropriate messages on social media sites while in a drunken stupor. Text messages, Facebook status and Twitter updates should not be done while fueled with tequila chasers.
To avoid making what seemed at the time to be a clever response, welcome the Social Media… Read more
Coming soon to a computer near you is a new tool from the social media gurus at Twitter. Twitter Places will allow its users to “claim” public places. Geo-locator tools like Twitter Places is not new and is the foundation of the highly successful FourSquare that offers Mayoralships and badges for frequently visiting different locations.
The introduction of Twitter Places… Read more
Last week, the almost-forgotten social media site MySpace got a makeover. The once profile-driven site has changed formats, perhaps for the better. The new look now features more content with a focus on entertainment for the 100 million users currently still using the space.
Users can still create and maintain personal profiles but the majority of the information and… Read more
And I don’t mean through the peep hole. The Department of Homeland Security’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) even has a report on it! With its catchy title “Social Networking Sites and Their Importance to FDNS” (Office of the Fraud Detection and National Security) security agents with the FDNS are instructed how to use social media networks for… Read more
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are intended to act as online communities where people can publically share information about themselves and connect with others. Many individuals choose to share photos or comment on their day-to-day activities but may not realize that information posted on social networking sites can be used as evidence against them in… Read more
Rumor has it Internet social networking site Facebook has linked forces with video chat magnate Skype to rival recently launched Google Voice offered by Google . Google Voice allows Gmail users to make voice calls online. During the recent launch, users of the new Google Voice technology logged in around 1 million users.
The swapping of Facebook and Skype… Read more
There seems to be no end for the new Twitter platform problems. With the launch of the new interface, a security loophole was introduced. Early morning fixes plugged loopholes in the virus that turned tweets different colors.
The Twitter blog named it the “onMouseOver” flaw in its’ blog. The tweet color conversion happened as the mouse scrolled over the… Read more
Facebook, the hugely popular social networking site, can now claims the title as the number one location for the amount of total time spent on a site by Internet users. Based on information from market research firm comScore, web users visiting Facebook spent more time on that site than any other destination while web-surfing.
U.S. web users spent 41.1… Read more
