While everyone thinks Facebook does everything perfectly, there’s a growing social networking alternative for gamers that strongly disagrees.
The gaming-centric social networking service first opened its doors a couple years ago, and has gained some notoriety for its success in integrating players among multiple platforms.
The big news for GameGround is it has [...]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has officially disputed claims that he signed away a majority stake of his $25 billion dollar company to the owner of a wood-pellet fuel store in upstate New York.
“Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Paul Ceglia’s claims are absurd and we strongly suspect the contract is forged,” Facebook confirmed in an [...]
Twitter is warning that the World Cup could lead to outages, after a week in which the site has been up and down like a soccer ball.
The fail whale has made regular appearances over the last week, as an internal network hit capacity. it had apparently put two critical, fast-growing, high-bandwith [...]
Twitter is testing a new URL shortening feature that it says will improve security – and that could also give Twitter a lot more saleable information on its users.
For the last three months, in an effort to prevent the malware attacks that have been sweeping the site, Twitter has been routing [...]
Yahoo has increased its integration with Facebook, allowing users to view their Facebook news feed on Yahoo Mail and the Yahoo home page.
From this week, users can link their accounts and view and share updates across both networks. Content created on Yahoo sites such as Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Flickr and [...]
There are nearly two-and-a-half times as many people using mobile Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace apps than there were last year, confirming it as the dominatingly largest growth area for the industry.
According to the latest numbers from mobile analytic research firm Comscore, the number of people using a social networking app on their [...]
Very quickly after announcing an extended partnership with Nokia, Yahoo has further expanded its presence in the mobile market by acquiring Koprol, a social networking start-up based in Indonesia.
Koprol specializes in mobile networking, allowing users to share photos with their friends and search for places based on location data.
The social networker describes [...]
Thanks to Facebook, Old Navy’s one-day (May 22nd) flip flop sale of 2010 has gone viral. Just drop by your local store to pick up a pair of flip flops for just $1, normally $3.50. Most stores will be open early today, but closing times vary depending on location. More information.
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When it comes to social networking, Facebook pretty much has a stronghold on everything…well, except for the young ones out there who cannot sign up due to the site’s age restriction.
Enter Togetherville.com, a new social networking site that launched its beta version this week. It allows the little tykes out there to [...]
Security advisers accept absolutely articular an automatic toolkit that creates a custom bot application Twitter as a basic command and ascendancy (C&C) platform.
“In adjustment to actualize their custom bot, an antagonist alone has to barrage the SDK, access a Twitter username that would act as a command & ascendancy centermost and [...]
iPhone users are an impulsive lot – they’re nearly twice as likely to have regretted making a Facebook post as the population at large.
According to a survey from shopping site Retrevo, 59 percent said they’d posted something they really wished they hadn’t, compared to just 32 percent of social network users [...]
Who stands to gain the most from the mass exodus of Facebook users concerned about their privacy? Yep, you guessed it.
Myspace sent out an open letter to its users today, outlining a new “simplified” version of its privacy settings that will be rolling out to the site within the next month.
Myspace co-president [...]
If you’ve got the Spotify app on your iPhone, you may want to check that you’ve been updated to the latest version, 0.4.5, in order to take advantage of some brilliant new features.
Last month we told you how Spotify had added a load of new features into its music service, such as support for your [...]
NEW SILICON valley start up, Myweboo.com aggregates profiles, texts, photos, and videos on multiple social networking sites, such as Facebook and Picasa. Is it going to be next gig thing in this world of web. A dream of 18 year old Daine Keng is to make it multimillion user platform.
Daine [...]
While most of the planet is excited to hear about McDonald’s being in line to be the first to use Facebook’s as yet unannounced geospatial tools (Ad Age), TechCrunch has the scoop on the tech based on perusing some not yet turned on code. Facebook confirmed there is a product (TechCrunch) [...]
Microsoft has created a new tool, Spindex, that aims to manage and aggregate social media information.
Unlike other aggregation tools, Spindex works on the basis of personalized trending topics. Via Bing, it seeks out useful information based on users’ interest in their friends’ messages and comments.
“It lets you find out more about [...]
RIM has introduced two new Blackberry smartphones: the classic Bold 9650 and compact Pearl 3G.
According to RIM, the (Sprint) Bold 9650 is “ideally suited” for those who want to stay socially connected to various social and business networking services.
“[The $200 Bold 9650] offers easy access to social networking sites like Flickr, [...]
