Archive for:February, 2011:


Microsoft Bing Searches Include Facebook Likes

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Tweet In an answer to Google’s Twitter searches, Bing makes public likes searchable Social networking is ubiquitous and the current trend now. It’s all pervading grip has now spread to search engines too. Google already has a social search with Twitter integrated into its results, but what’s lacking is Facebook in the social search arena.

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg Becomes a Comic Book Hero

Published by in Social, Technology on February 28th, 2011
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Tweet New 48-pager comic book to paint him in a fair light The youngest billionaire, Time magazine’s controversial Person of the Year, and the king of the social networking Mark Zuckerberg is finally getting the ultimate in American hero worship – the Comic Book treatment in the form of a 48-pager comic book titled ‘Mark

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Tags: , Bluewater Productions, Comic book, , Freelancer, , Google Inc, , , Microsoft Corp, , TIME magazine, ,

Facebook Blocks Breakup Notifier

Published by in Social, Technology on February 25th, 2011
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Tweet Accuses the application of being ‘spammy’ Within just a few days of reporting about Facebook‘s controversial new Breakup Notifier application, the social networking website has shut it down. The application, which would allow users to keep a track on the relationship status of their crushes, got a rousing response with over a million users

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Tags: application, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Breakup App, Breakup Notifier, , , Machine learning, , User experience

Facebook Gets Breakup Notifier App

Published by in Social, Technology on February 24th, 2011
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Tweet An app that’ll make Barney Stintson proud The dating game is cruel, and hot guys and girls don’t stay single for long. It’s a jungle out there and you have to act fast, before someone makes a move. So with a burgeoning friend list populated with hundreds of eligible mates, how do you keep

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Tags: , Dating, , Google Appengine, Graph API, Relationships, , , status

Facebook – The face of Egypt’s revolution!!!

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Tweet An Egyptian father has proudly named his daughter “facebook”. According to Al-Ahram(one of the most popular newspapers in Egypt), he did so in tribute to the role the social media service played in organizing the protests in Tahrir Square and beyond. Wael Ghonim, “We Are Khaled Said” Facebook page showed up within 5 days

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Twitter’s Blank Page – @anywhereboosh

Published by in Social, Technology on February 23rd, 2011
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Tweet Twitter is having little trouble in the past days. Many of its users are unwillingly being directed to a page names @anywhereboosh . This is causing enough frustration and complaints are pouring in from across the globe. Users are being directed to a blank screen and an absurd error message flashes. Although the issue

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Tags: @anywhereboosh, , , blogosphere, , , Tweetdeck, Twidroyd, Twitlonger, , twitter blank screen

Twitter Debunks Google-Facebook Takeover Rumours

Published by in Social, Technology on February 20th, 2011
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Tweet CEO Dick Costolo questions if Google can afford Twitter; hints towards a new revenue generation model After a Wall Street Journal report claimed low level talks between Facebook and Google executives about acquisition of Twitter, the Internet saw a great hue and cry about another big corporation assimilating a smaller one. However, Twitter CEO

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