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Facebook adds hashtags to compete with other social networks
25 Apr 2013 by Bethaney Wallace
A few weeks ago, Facebook announced that it was working on a way to integrated hashtags into its platform. Already a successful feature on Twitter and Instagram, the change would bring Zuckerberg and crew into the world of random and unnecessary links. Sure, some are helpful and even relevant, but when scouring Twitter, the majority of hashtags consist of a string of words that may or may not be s...
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The Facebook phone: Is it real this time?
28 Mar 2013 by Bethaney Wallace
We’re all still recovering from the recent Facebook changes – the pictures are larger, and now there’s a treat of video ads (sigh). But now having altered the site’s design, as well as the method from which it gathers News Feed info, Facebook is holding onto one more bombshell to throw at its users: there still might a Facebook Phone in the works. To be put into production by HTC, this h...
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Facebook or Fakebook – It Doesn’t Matter
10 Aug 2012 by Dave Parrack / 1 Comment
It was recently revealed that Facebook doesn’t have as many users as the official figures would suggest. Within the 955 million monthly active users the social networking site boasts are millions of bogus accounts, made up of duplicates, misclassifications, and undesirables. The thing is that although this “news” made it on to technology websites around the world, no one could ha...
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Google+ Will Succeed By Integrating Everything
28 Jun 2012 by Dave Parrack / 1 Comment
Google+ has been with us for a year now, having been launched at the end of June 2011. Over the past 12 months it hasn’t exactly set the world alight. It’s nice enough, especially after the recent redesign, and some of its core features and functionality are better than those of the competition. But its biggest claim to fame so far is the influence it has had on its nemesis, the big ba...
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Facebook Approaches 1 Billion Users
25 Apr 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 2 Comments
Facebook recently disclosed that they have 901 million users. Nine. Hundred. And. One. Million. They dropped this little statistic in their amended S-1 filing earlier this week, along with other small statistics such as that Facebook users post 3.2 billion comments per day and upload 300 million photos per day as well. They also lay claim that 125 billion friendships have been formed so far on Fac...
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Instagram goes from $0 to $1 billion in 17 months
13 Apr 2012 by Craig Lloyd
Instagram, the incredibly popular free photo-sharing app, launched in October of 2010. Within the first week, the app had almost 200,000 users. That number jumped to 1.75 million in February 2011 and three months later there were 4 million people using the app. Of course, 4 million isn’t anything to write home about according to today’s standards, but it was certainly a respectable num...
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Would you trade in your social media passwords for a job?
22 Mar 2012 by Craig Lloyd / 10 Comments
The practice of employers looking up social media profiles of prospective employees is nothing new. It’s a great way to learn a lot about a person from the things that they choose to broadcast to the public. However, there comes a point where this all may go a little too far — specifically when a potential employee’s profile is set to private. Associated Press reports that some j...
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“Batch” is the ultimate mobile photo sharing app for iPhone
02 Dec 2011 by Brian Nelson
In the smart phone era, everyone is an amateur photographer. Equipped with high-def capabilities and nearly bottomless storage, we produce a lot of photos on a daily basis which we’ve opted to share individually on Twitter or in bulk on Facebook. The problem is that sharing full albums with friends requires a bit of effort — downloading to your desktop, uploading to Facebook — wh...
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Diaspora Seeks Donations, PayPal Freezes Account
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
UPDATE: After some prodding and community outcry, PayPal released Diaspora’s account. Remember Diaspora? The group of NYU students that asked for $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to create a decentralized alternative to Facebook, and made headlines when they garnered a shocking $200,000 instead? Yeah, they’re still around, and to my surprise, they have some pretty cool stuff to show...
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Real-Time Search and Improved Hashtags Now Supported in Google+
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson
Vic Gundotra, the mind behind much of Google+, made a rare video appearance recently to show off two new features that will keep Facebook on its toes and probably elicit a disgusted groan from Twitter. Real-time search and improved support for hashtags will help Google+ contend with the established utility of Twitter by allowing users to see trending topics, as well one-up Facebook by supporting ...
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