Category: "Social networking"

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  • Twitter hacked; user information of 250k accounts stolen – company immediately reacted to remedy

    The hack comes just amid the news of an extensive online security breach in United States affecting media companies like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Twitter acknowledged the recent hack to its systems live and immediately closed down the hacking activity, and had reset passwords of the affected users – but considerably 250,000... 

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  • Apple in talks with The Fancy, a social commerce website for acquisition

    Business Insider reports that Apple is to buy a social commerce site. The Fancy is a magazine/blog styled part store and wish list – a social network wherein users can talk about, share stuff and could also buy them. Apple’s part of operational plan is so said to have its 400 million iTune accounts with credit cards registered to do the... 

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  • Twitter takes spammers to court

    Twitter has filed a lawsuit against five biggest spam tool providers and spammers at federal court in San Fransisco. Among the five TweetAttacks and JustinLover.info owners have already shut down their sites. Others in the list are TweetBuddy, TweetAdder and Garland Harris from Troption.com. “Taking legal action sends a clear message to all... 

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  • Google to launch G+ comment system

    At G-Saudi Arabia conference, Google announced a critical news for bloggers and other web portals – they’ll be launching a new comment system for blogs that will hook up with users’ Google+ account. Certainly Google’s leveling up with its rival Facebook, as the comment system the big G’s going to launch is very much like... 

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  • Popular pranks to use on your Facebook friends

    This is a guest post written by Ankit Pandey. He is a proud owner of Link Building Firm SeoEaze. Article Submission Service & Complete Link Building Service are the 2 very popular Seo Services of SeoEaze. There are lots of prank ideas that one can use to surprise his Facebook friends. Using such pranks can make your social life even more interesting. These... 

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  • Twitter launched local ‘trends’ in India

    Guys from Twitter started city leveled local trends in India. Users can now delve in for trending topics in any of the six Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai. Nice new feature, after all it gives you an option to catch up with local stuff along with happening trends across the world. So, give it a try! BGR.in Twitter  Read More →

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  • Get more out of Facebook through proper Facebook marketing tips

    This post has been contributed by our guest author who writes for Interflora. Whether its Santa’s Christmas Day for your kids or mother’s day presents for your ever so lovely mommy, Interflora will ensure that those gifts will reach your loved ones on the very same day. Promote Your Facebook ‘Like’ Page With Promotional Gifts... 

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  • Google tied up with O-zone to provide free Internet at hotspots across India

    Free Internet but it ain’t going to be full fledged, in case that’s what you have thought of. The cause of the tie up is probably Google India’s marketing campaign as the free Wi-Fi Internet will only be accessible to Google+ and YouTube. O-zone is going to implement this free Internet access from this weekend at all of its hotspot... 

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  • Google+ launched Pages – features exciting ideas to ‘connect’

    The awaited add-on for Google+ has just arrived. Hangouts and Direct Connect makes G+ Pages quite unique for businesses and people. Page owners can make Hangouts anytime with their followers – that’s really a very interesting way to accept feedback and ideas from customers and fans. With this launch, Google search now offers direct business... 

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  • [Update] Google+ YouTube Music Player beta shows up rolling out!

    Some G+ users including our Managing Editor Vishal Laul, noticed a new beta feature today on their Google+ account. It’s a music player which stream music tracks via YouTube. With this integration one can access music from a floating widget on the right side of the page (button with a YouTube logo). Search results are shown in a pop-out webpage... 

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  • Let’s have a look on Facebook Social Inbox!

    Facebook announced their own email service around 3 months ago, we knew we wanted to try it out – and so we applied for it. So let’s take a look and see how Mail is done, by Facebook. The invitation will be like this: You’ll be prompted to upgrade to the new “Facebook Messages.” FB will guide you step by step to complete... 

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  • FunCentr Like – “Like” topics and show them off at Facebook

    FunCentr Like is a place where you can share your thoughts, jokes etc. There’s no need to sign up, just type in your topic, fill in the CAPTCHA and you are there. See the number of people liking your submitted topic increase and show off what you shared. All in all the name FunCentr fits in better. Take a look, Click here. Main agenda of Funcentr... 

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  • App Store’s now on Twitter, 70 thousand followers in 12 hours

    [blackbirdpie url="http://twitter.com/#!/AppStore/status/29632144217219072"] Apple’s getting more social day-by-day, introducing its services to Twitter. Five iTunes services are already chirping on Twitter, and now finally @AppStore arrived on Twitter. So what @AppStore doing on Twitter? Well they’re giving out mobile updates for their... 

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  • MySpace cuts it’s employee count to half – only 500 people left to work

    See who’s going down, MySpace has just announced that they will be firing 500 people from their workforce, leaving only about 500 people to manage the site. Clearly, MySpace had it’s time, but now it’s falling down, slowly. MySpace CEO Mike Jones said this: “‘Today’s tough but necessary changes were taken in order to... 

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  • Qik’s acquisition by Skype is now completed, where’s the Android video calling?

    This was Qik. Very quick. It’s just been a week when Skype stated that it’s going to be acquiring Qik for an undisclosed amount of american bucks, and.. it’s done! Though Qik’s video calling isn’t going anywhere – atleast for now, the reason for this acquisition seems to be clear – Skype want’s Qik’s... 

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  • Like it or not, New Facebook Profile being rolled out to everyone!

    Facebook, a community of millions of users has just announced that starting from today, they will be rolling out the new profile to everyone. Yes, we are talking about the same new Facebook profile which was disliked by millions but again there are x times the millions who actually liked. So, here we go you like it or not your profile is going to be... 

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  • Facebook is shutting down – Rumor

    Yup, you read that right, we don’t know how this ridiculous rumor started and from where but  it’s spreading fast or say too fast on all those social networks. This rumor is rocking the charts of Google Trends and Twitter, so it’s obviously something big. Briefly, the rumour is that Facebook will be closing down on March 15, 2011 &... 

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  • NVIDIA announced 3DVisionLive.com, a web community – at CES

    3DVisionLive.com was unveiled a while ago, but users couldn’t upload any of their 3D stuffs. So now it’s on, live! Register yourself and share your 3D video and photos captured by your 3D cam… and social yourself! Nvidia‘s at CES, and they’re announcing few stuffs out there. We’ll talk about 3DVisionLive.com, by... 

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  • Facebook’s all new profile look

    Facebook doesn’t really do major changes very frequently to there layout design, but it seem’s now they have done – presenting a freshly designed profile page. Blur blur everywhere! So Facebook finally decided to redesign the profile page – and oh boy, they did it right. So far, so good – it isn’t something revolutionary,... 

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  • Facebook launches it’s own email service, one of it’s kind

    Facebook been teasing us (well not exactly Facebook but you get the point) from a few months now about an email service, and now it’s true! Here’s what you should know before reading this piece of article – it’s only in limited invites for one of the invites go riiiiight here. Meet @facebook.com, it’s an email network... 

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