Technology Hacks from the Owl
Facebook was in the new last December when it partnered with Greenpeace for using renewable and sustainable sources of energy to power its mammoth server farms. Remember the Un-Friend Coal campaign by Greenpeace? Greenpeace has targeted...
It’s official. Tweetdeck has been acquired by Twitter for over $40 mil (although neither Twitter nor TweetDeck have released the numbers/terms officially) TweetDeck is one of the most commonly used tool in the social-networking space to...
Try searching for any term on google (while signed in) and you’ll see results from your Social circle toward the end of the page. Google knows your social contacts from you gmail address book and searches...
Aug 9, 2008 : Facebook Inc has blocked a virus that infected thousands of users’ accounts by presenting itself as a video message. The messages advertised links to videos on Google Video or YouTube sites and...
Complete.com has released The Top Moving Sites Of 2007 list
After complaints the site was invading privacy, Facebook changed Beacon (Recently launched social advert. system on Facebook) from an opt-out system to opt in. Mr Zuckerberg has said users can now switch off Beacon completely. In...
Megan Meier, a Missouri teen , had committed suicide by hanging herself at age of 13 last year. Recently, her parents learned that the boy she’d been corresponding with on MySpace (the one who unexpectedly began...
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The latest numbers from Nielsen NetRatings show that Facebook has now surpassed MySpace in the UK. For August, Facebook registered 6.5 million unique visitors versus 6.4 million for MySpace. For Facebook, that represents a whopping 541%...
