Facebook found itself the center of a class action lawsuit back in 2011 concerning what some said were privacy violations, a topic that has been ever present for the social network. Five plaintiffs are involved in the suit, and Facebook is set to pay $20 million under the settlement terms. After years of back and […]
Facebook launched its gift service back in September 2012, allowing Facebook users to buy their friends a gift over the social network. While this feature won’t be going entirely way, one big change is being implemented: material gifts (that is, gifts of a physical nature) will no longer be available, with only gift cards remaining. […]
In addition to four other models Canon rolled out last evening, the company has expanded its line with the PowerShot N, a Facebook-ready point-and-shoot. The camera is a Canon Direct exclusive offering, and achieves its social network-ready status via the inclusion of a Facebook Connect Button, something that instantly shuttles images off to one’s Facebook […]
Facebook’s all about sharing — pictures, life changes, embarrassing details that may get you canned by some future employer. But what about information from third-party apps that you don’t want clogging up your feed? Facebook’s been rolling out an update that’ll make it necessary for apps using the service to ask your permission before going ahead and posting, say, your workout routine to everyone you know — a feature that, granted, a number of apps already have in place. Also new is a faster Login — 31 percent faster by Facebook’s measure. The social network has also taken the opportunity to mention that it’s been working with the makers of popular apps to improve the login experience all around, including some unspecified future updates to the service.
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Source: Facebook Developer Blog
Facebook‘s founder Mark Zuckerberg has introduced Internet.org, a partnership that spans the globe with a goal of connecting the entire world to the Internet. The collective encompasses many big name members, among them being Samsung, Nokia, and Opera, all of whom will work together to connect the two-thirds of the world that don’t have access […]
It’s the 21st-century version of the Polaroid: Q Lifestyle’s theQ camera launches today, a chunky point-and-shoot that’s designed to get your shots off the memory card and into the cloud as quickly as possible. The digital camera is optimized for sharing the photos you take across the popular social networks with a single button-press, while […]
LinkedIn has already branched out a bit with its own blogging and following features for select groups, and now the popular social networking site has introduced a tool geared towards students. Aptly dubbed University Pages, LinkedIn describes the new service as one that’s part of its strategy to help college-bound pupils “at every critical milestone from campus to fulfilling successful careers.”
Beginning September 12th, LinkedIn’s set to welcome high school students on its network and provide access to the new University Pages, allowing them to explore and rub elbows with about 200 participating universities, both in the US and abroad. Users will then be able to do things such as receive regular updates about campus news / activities and view notable members of each college’s alumni. If one of your favorite schools isn’t there just yet, fret not — LinkedIn says “thousands more” will be given access over the next few weeks.
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Source: LinkedIn
In a bid to cement itself as the definitive real-time news commentary engine of the modern universe, Twitter has (smartly) decided to add a bit of context to embedded tweets. Increasingly, blogs and news sources are embedding tweets that relate to a story they’re composing, but to date, those tweets have largely sat on their own island. Starting today, embedded tweets will include a “Related headlines” section beneath the original tweet, where you’ll be able to view the tweet’s permalink page as well as lists and links to websites where the tweet was embedded. All in all, it seems like a wise move for the company, but curiously, it’s not clear how the shown links are chosen. Something tells us every news organization on the planet will be pleading to be first for inclusion, though.
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Source: Twitter Blog
It already feels like time for I Love The 10s. There’s plenty of throwback material. Example: Inception. Alternate example: Gangnam Style. And Taio Cruz would definitely make the cut for Break Your Heart and Dynamite. But he also apparently exists in the here and now. And he made a social network called KeWe (pronounced kiwi).
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Twitter‘s tweets-per-second numbers are usually fairly stable, with spikes happening here and there to varying degrees depending on what is trending and happening in the real world. On August 3, however, it had an unusually high per-second tweet peak – so high, in fact, that it set a new record for the social network. Now […]
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