Social
Sorting The Flock Of Sheep – Location-based Social Networks
As you all know, South by Southwest (SXSW) is currently going on in Austin, TX. During that, a few location-based apps have been updated or launched specifically for the event. Of course there are a few other apps that have been out for a while offering similar features and I thought it was about time More >
Conan’s Twitter Team
In a recent post, we told you guys about Conan O’Brien joining Twitter. Well a photo was posted yesterday from in a Tweet from Conan, telling his followers about Team CoCo.
Here is the photo:
It must really be hard to constantly be funny in 140 characters or less, even if you are Conan O’Brien, the popular More >
Twitter Approaching 10 Billion Tweets
Twitter is back in the news again, and this time it’s for their 10 Billionth Tweet.
About one year ago, Twitter reached the milestone of 1 Billion Tweets, then about 4 months ago, they reached their 5 Billionth Tweet. And now their next milestone is fast approaching, 10 Billion Tweets. Although Twitter has had less overall More >
Some Twitter Users Experiencing Timeline Problems.
Mashable is confirming that Twitter is having some problems with their timelines this morning. Blogger Dave Winer confirmed that his timeline hasn’t updated for the last 8 hours.
The popular Twitter App, TweetDeck, has tweeted that some users are experiencing problems as well.
Stay tuned for more information.
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Facebook Will Cease Sending App Notifications on March 1st
Today, the Facebook developer blog announced that Facebook will stop sending you notifications for applications on March 1st.
For most users, the Facebook app notifications are a big pain, especially when you see that you have 8 new notifications, only to open them and realize that they are all notifications from the Honesty Box or that one More >
Conan O’Brien Joins Twitter
About a day ago, Conan O’Brien, the former late night television host for NBC joined Twitter. His account has been verified so that everyone knows that it is the real Conan.
Currently, he has 335,000 followers, and I think that we can defiantly count on that number jumping up quickly. The true question is, will he be the More >
The iPhone App Bump gets Facebook integration
Imagine meeting someone on the street or at a cafe, and wanting to become Facebook friends right at that moment. You could just imput their name into Facebook and then search, but now it is even easier with the new Facebook integration on the iPhone App Bump.
All that youhave to do is bump your iPhones More >
How to: Set-up Facebook chat on your desktop client
Just the other day Facebook announced that anyone could access Facebook chat from their favorite desktop clients. We’ve made a list of steps to help you start chatting from your desktop, enjoy!
Pidgin (PC):
Go to “Accounts” > “Manage Accounts”
Enter the following information:
Protocol: XMPP
Username: <yourusername> (this is your nickname, go to your profile and the text after More >
Google has bought Aardvark [Updated]
This just in- Google has purchased Aardvark, the popular Q&A site, for a reported $50 million dollars.
Aardvark is essentially a social search engine startup founded by ex-googlers. It communicates with users via it’s site, vark.com, IM, and its iPhone app (which is great!).
Details are sketchy right now, but we are wondering why Google purchased Aardvark; More >
Google’s new Social Product: “Google Buzz”
Today, Google unleashed its latest step towards the Social Web- Google Buzz.
Launched earlier today, Buzz is essentially Twitter/Friendfeed Google Style. Those who use Google Reader and Google’s Real-Time Search often will easily find their way around it. Users can publish Status Updates, Pictures, Videos, and links real time to followers. Contacts that you email and More >
