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A new location-based feature is on the brink of release in both Facebook and Twitter. This feature will allow users to share their location with friends at any given time. A report in The New York Times says that the friend location information feature will be available on Facebook from the next month. The Facebook [...]
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Barracuda Labs has revealed in a recent report in which it says that only 21 percent of Twitter Users are truly ‘active’ users. Some of the key highlights of the report reveal that on the whole Twitter users ARE becoming more active. 48% of the top 100 followed users and 49% of overall Twitter users [...]
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Twitter sets up a unique service to identify bad links and get rid of them as a response to the recent spamming abuse and scams that have skyrocketed since the popularity of the microblogging site grew.  The recent phishing scams have actuated Twitter’s fight against spamming through malignant links in direct messages. These scams can [...]
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Thanks to Barb Dybwad from Mashable, we get a look at the perspectives of Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, new co-presidents of MySpace. Mr. Hirschhorn stressed on the fact that they want ‘top-notch engineering talent’ as usability, quality and engineering are to be the focal points for this social networking site at present. The site [...]
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Surprises were aplenty at the recently concluded Oscars this year. And one among them (and perhaps the most discussed of the lot) was a surprise iPad advertisement aired by Apple during the presentation of the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday evening. The 30-second teaser advert blitzkriegs through the iPad features, with the catchy tune of “There [...]
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Social media has taken the world by storm, and most are already surfing high on it. But as Niall Harbison puts it, ‘throwing up a WP blog’ or ’setting up a Twitter account to get involved’ is not as easy as it seems. And this applies to people working on (and with) social media tools [...]
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From posting freestyle poetry, photography, to battling out Haiku-style with his sister, Yves Captaine, a 16-year-old South Chicago resident spends hours on the online community of the library site YOUMedia. YOUMedia is actually a ‘Digital Space for Teens’ housed in Harold Washington Public Library. This area is equipped with laptops, desktop PCs, PlayStation 3’s, a [...]
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Liberty Mutual released a “comprehensive national survey” of online behavior yesterday in which it said that men frequent social networking sites more often than women and that they view social media activities in a more positive light than women do. This report seems to contradictory to the one released by Royal Pingdom and other recent [...]
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Last year Ford had deployed the Fiesta Movement, a social media strategy that got everyone talking about the Ford Fiesta. This strategy is going to be revived again, says Ford, and this time they are getting 20 teams from across the nation to participate in the Fiesta Movement. Team representatives will be driving the 2011 [...]
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The Internet is the second runner up when it comes to being the most popular news source in America. Latest reports say that television is the major source of news and mobile devices follow closely behind. An amazing 92% of Americans say that they access news from blogs, web-based news sites, and social networking sites [...]
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