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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Motorola is reportedly preparing to launch an Android-powered smartphone with a “flip-around” display in June 2010.
According to Brighthand (via Gizmodo Brasil), the Flipout will boast a 2.8-inch touchscreen that rotates to expose a small QWETRY keyboard and D-Pad.
The device is also expected to run Android OS 2.1 on a 700 MHz [...]
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) [...]
The latest company in Google’s portfolio comes all the way from Tel Aviv. The online search giant has picked up Israel-based Labpixies for a reported $25 million.
Labpixies is an admittedly unknown company to most people, though it has a notable presence on everything from Facebook to the iPhone to Google’s customizable [...]
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, [...]
Facebook’s long had some privacy issues, and now that they’re broadening their reach on the web, who knows what’ll happen next? Oh, right. We do:
2007 – Facebook Beacon links your purchases at online stores to your Facebook account so your friends (and marketers) can see what you’re buying.
2010 – Facebook makes [...]
The day of 21st April 2010 was Facebook’s F8 developer conference. As a result, we’ve all since been wading through swamps of new articles on announcements that Zuckerberg and his buddies made on subjects such as the Open Graph, APIs and plug-ins. Now that’s all very well if you happen to [...]
