Social Networking
For a while there, the amount of Spam was getting a bit out of hand. How many times had you gotten follow requests only to find out they weren’t a real person, rather an ad for erectile dysfunction or pornography? Well, the folks at Twitter got on that and are now reporting their successes.
Twitter boasted ...
Teneros, an online communication services company, introduced a service this week. What does it do? Makes it much easier for companies to keep track of the Internet exploits of their employees.
The software, called Social Sentry, will automatically monitor both Facebook and Twitter of employees for the modest fee of $2-$8 per employee per day depending ...
The FBI in cooperation with the French Police this week arrested the alleged Twitter hacker known only as “Hacker Croll. The 25 year old suspect allegedly stole corporate documents from the social networking giant in 2009. He also hacked into several notable Twitter accounts, including Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher.
Little is known about Hacker Croll’s ...
Last year, there was something of a minor uprising when it seemed as though location tagging had wormed it’s way into the Facebook community. Protests were staged. Facebook President Mark Zuckerman even issued a public apology. Well you know what they say: The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Location tagging has reared ...
China has been long been known as a lover of social networking sites. The top three traffic getters, however, feature no familiar faces to us Westerners. Let’s take a look, shall we?
Renren.com – This site started out as Facebook clone but soon blew up to be the most popular social networking site in China. It ...
Conan O’Brien may have been shoved off of NBC to make way for Jay Leno, but he seems to have found a new outlet. Twitter! CoCo joined Twitter just a few days ago and has already racked up over a half million followers. He has entertained his many followers by posting stuff such as :
“I ...
The U.S. Department of Defense has lifted it’s ban on social networking sites that had been in place for some sections of the agency since 2007. The Department of Defense issued a memorandum on Friday that sets a new policy allowing access to social-networking services from the DoD network.
“Service members and DoD employees are welcome ...
White House Press Secretary is taking it the people, Twitter style. He signed up for the popular social networking site last week, claiming his deputy Bill Burton had been using it and it looked like “great fun.” He ha racked up thousands of followers in the scant few days he’s been involved with the popular ...
A post on the forthcoming iPad would probably have been inappropriate here so instead we leave you with three useful Twitter apps for Mac computers. These are all new and you may have missed the radar blip when they were released. Macs sometimes get the short end of the app stick so when good stuff ...
Power Twitter, the little Twitter add- on that could, has received a new update today. Note, this update only works for the Firefox version of the app. Safari and Chrome updates are on the way and, as usual, Explorer is left out in the cold.
What does it do? Well this new update streamlines the already ...
