While 2009 was a year to keep our noses to the grindstone, many of us let our personal blogs languish in decay. Whether it’s offline or online, it’s never healthy to neglect yourself or those who care about you. One way to turn over a new leaf and keep your community engaged in 2010 is [...]
If you were hoping to get your hands on Firefox 3.6 before the end of the year, you’re out of luck. CNET did some digging and discovered that release dates for both Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 have been pushed farther into the future.
Originally, Firefox 3.6 (which is bringing some cool personalization and customization features via [...]
Facebook yesterday announced they’ve redesigned their help center, making it more accessible and easier to use.
It’s not a huge difference compared to what the help center looked before, but it’s definitely an improvement. Filters on the left have separated help for specific applications, help discussions, sheer Facebook basics and safety information from the rest of [...]
If anything dominated the social media world last week, it was URL shorteners. Both Facebook and Google launched URL shorteners, Fb.me and Goo.gl respectively.
Now Google subsidiary YouTube has joined the URL shortening bandwagon. It has just announced youtu.be, the official short link of the world’s largest video site.
The shortener is exclusive to YouTube links [...]
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Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured by Alexa & Google Trends for Websites.
The first [...]
The live video streaming site Justin.tv is set to launch a pay-per-view service next month, allowing content providers to charge fees to those tuning in online.
The service goes live for select partners in January, then opens to all in Q2 2010, reports Beet.tv. Channels will charge a minimum of $1 per view, with Justin.tv [...]
Google has lately been prone to changing its own logo, often turning it into a series of doodles with a riddle attached. It seems we’re about to see another series of logo changes, but this time their purpose is quite easy to discover.
If you’ve visited Google today, you may have noticed that Google logo has [...]
Google, which is currently on one heck of a spending spree, is closing an acquisition of San Francisco based DocVerse, a service that lets users collaborate around Microsoft Office documents, we’ve heard from a source with knowledge of the deal. The purchase price is supposed to be around $25 million.
Docverse lets users collaborate directly on [...]
If your friends post YouTube videos to Facebook, you’ll now see those clips in your timeline on the YouTube homepage. It’s another social mashup that’s blurring the lines between the various social sites.
The new feature isn’t yet live on all accounts, but you can enable it by visiting your account settings page and enabling “Connect [...]
A successful attack on Twitter early Friday morning is being blamed on Twitter’s own email security, as hackers were able to get access to an email account and change a password, then redirect Twitter.com traffic elsewhere.
Twitter suffered a security breach Friday morning that displayed a message from the “Iranian Cyber Army” for around an hour [...]
