Tag: Social Media
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Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” Feature
RSS feeds is no new term in the web industry, but now social networks are also grabbing the benefits of subscribe feature. Facebook is now testing a new feature that let users to “subscribe to” to another user. Facebook realized that users have hundreds of friends, and multiple news feeds, so they might miss out…
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Orkut Now Allows You To Group Your Friends, Family and Colleagues
Well, in the world of social networks where Facebook and Twitter are high on demand, Orkut is less known around the world. But it is still trendy in Brazil and India where people scrap and share lot of things. Google’s Orkut is now getting a major revamp, where you will be allowed to create groups…
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You Cannot Block CEO Zuck On Facebook
Blocking Mark Zuckerberg – The CEO and founder of Facebook is now not possible, which was supposedly allowed earlier. Like how you could block any other Facebook user, blocking Zuck will show “block failed” error. There is no clear message posted on why he cannot be blocked. You can try yourself, visit Zuck’s Facebook page…
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Facebook Second on the List of Most Phished Brand
Although Facebook is the world’s largest social networking site, it does come with few cons when speaking about security. A recent report from security researchers from German antivirus vendor Avira explained that number of phishing attacks on Facebook users has increased almost of 64% in July. With this rate Facebook lands second on the list…
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Oxford English Dictionary Adds Tweetup, Vuvuzela, Chilax and More
Evolution is what languages today believe in and this holds especially true ever since internet is in use. Various associations came up with their own argot and further popular sites came up with their own terminology. But all this while it was just fenced to their site and now some of the most popular words…
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Finally Facebook’s Geo-Location Feature Is Here
The world’s largest social network is placing itself to be the hub for all location-based services. Facebook today exposed a service that makes it simpler for users to share their location with other people, making a deeper push into a fast-developing market pioneered by Foursquare Labs Inc. Michael Eyal Sharon from Facebook Team announced =…
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Facebook Acquires Chai Labs, Semantic Search Company
Facebook has not been into acquisition as such, but it now started making some smart moves. The social network is said to have acquired Chai Labs, a web publishing semantic search company at an estimated price of $10 million. Allthingsd quoted to many sources but the confirm price of acquisition was unable to retrieve. Possibly…
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MySpace to Launch Revamped Homepage on August 16
MySpace is finally putting an end to its long overdue redesign for homepage. After testing a redesigned profile page, it will now roll out a new homepage as well. The new homepage is not only lot cleaner than earlier but also does a great job for developing social network. The Stream, MySpace’s take on the…
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UK Broadcaster Five Brings TV Show To Facebook
The well-known UK broadcaster Five will soon bring TV programs to Facebook. The two companies have joined hands to start Five’s TV-on-demand player to the giant social network. The deal explains that in next few weeks Facebook’s 26m UK users will be able to watch Five’s TV content on Facebook that includes Gadget Show, CSI…
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Twitter Hires Veterans From Facebook And Yelp
The super-excellent micro-blogging platform Twitter is making lot of hires to support its advertising model. Adding up this Twitter this week announced that it is making two new hires that should prove essential to its fledgling, ad-based business model — people to sell the ads. According to Advertising Age, Twitter has hired Dan Coughlin, the…