Browse tag: social networking

Browse tag: social networking

Facebook worm spreads with a lurid lure
Facebook was hit with a worm that infected users' profiles and then redirected them to pornography sites.
Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
Cloud Engines updates Pogoplug media sharing device
On Friday, Cloud Engines introduced the second generation of its Pogoplug multimedia sharing device. The Pogoplug is designed to plug into your home or small office network and let you access and share content of USB hard drives over the Internet using a standard Web browser.
Yahoo's search news shortcuts gain 'tweets,' videos, photos
Yahoo has enhanced the news "shortcuts" it displays in Web search result pages.
Loopt 2.0 for iPhone brings more context to your location
A major upgrade to Loopt's location-based, social iPhone app brings a much better experience and puts more emphasis on finding businesses, restaurants, events, and even shopping discounts around you.
Business use of Twitter, Facebook exploding
A survey of 200 companies worldwide found that use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter for business use has exploded in recent months.
Review: AudioBoo for iPhone
This app, which provides a quick, easy way to share audio recordings on the Internet, shows a lot of potential. Recording and publishing is a snap, but more robust in-app browsing is needed.
Viewfinder aids Flickr searchers
Connected Flow's new Flickr browser, Viewfinder, makes finding images of particular license types or sizes a snap.
Flickr plants an App Garden
Photo-sharing site Flickr has launched an App Garden to show off all the third-party software that works with its service.
Delibar makes Delicious bookmarking easy and attractive
Delibar improves greatly on the experience of sharing, accessing, and creating bookmarks for the popular Delicious bookmarking service.
Twitter rolls out Lists feature to most users
Twitter began rolling out its new Lists feature, previously in limited beta testing, to most of its userbase this week.
Facebook offers up privacy policy for user review
Looking to avoid user angst, Facebook unveiled a proposed new privacy policy on Thursday for review by its users.
WordPress 2 hits the App Store
WordPress 2 sports a new user interface, better compatibility, and a few new features.
Brightkite 2.0 brings more privacy, social control
The location-based social network just launched a major redesign and new features, so it's only right for its iPhone app to follow suit.
Eight steps to Internet unpopularity
Want to be loathed on the Web? These eight techniques will get you started.
Mozilla releases Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool
Mozilla has launched a software project designed to let people manage better the ever more voluminous stream of messages coming Web services into their e-mail.
Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook
Microsoft reached a deal with Twitter and Facebook that allows its Bing search engine to index public posts from the social media sites.
iTunes launches new Twitter accounts
The iTunes Store has created a quartet of new Twitter accounts to keep social networking users abreast of the latest developments in music, podcasts, movies, and TV.
Review: MyPhone+ for iPhone
This souped-up iPhone dialer app synchronizes with your Facebook account, pulling in photos and other information from the social networking service and linking them with your Contacts. MyPhone+'s easy synchronization with Facebook makes it a highly useful utility for the social networker on the go.
Protect your privacy on Facebook and Twitter
Sure, you've heard the horror stories about people getting fired because of something they said on Facebook and Twitter. But do you know how to make sure that doesn't happen to you?
Biz Stone: I don't want to sell Twitter
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said his company isn't looking to be acquired.
Apple unresponsive to iPhone IM app developer
Cerulean Studios, maker of the popular Trillian IM client, has received no word from Apple on the iPhone version of its app, even though it was submitted two months ago.
Twitter: Don't change your log-in data until further notice
Twitter is asking its users to refrain from changing their log-in data or else risk getting locked out of their accounts.
Facebook outage silences 150,000 users
For the past week and a half, several thousand Facebook users were unable to access their accounts because of a technical issue with a server.
Bump app draws buzz at CTIA
A free iPhone social networking application called Bump for quick sharing of personal contact information and photos created a buzz at the CTIA International wireless conference.
Realmac Software acquires social app EventBox
Realmac Software has acquired EventBox, which made a splash on the Mac by wrangling together various social media services like Facebook, Google Reader, Twitter, Digg, Flickr, and more.
Five reasons to watch Google Wave
Looking for a service that combines e-mail, instant messaging, blogging, document sharing, wikis, and multimedia content? Google thinks you should be. Here are five reasons the company might be right.
Anti-video-game crusader sues Facebook for $40 million
Jack Thompson, a constant critic of violent video games has sued Facebook for $40 million.
Study: Facebook, Twitter users are affluent and urban
Facebook users are more affluent than their social networking counterparts on Myspace, and bloggers and Twitterers tend to live in urban areas, The Nielsen Co. reports.
Report: Twitter valued at $1 billion in new deal
Twitter may raise as much as $100 million soon in a deal that values it at $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports.