Archive : Facebook

Facebook Places has now been released in the US only and I’ve had a little time to play around with Facebook’s latest addition to its services. Firstly, Places can only be accessed via the Facebook iphone app and Facebook plans to release apps for other platforms including Android and Blackberry. Alternatively, you can access places via a brower at touch.facebook.com. There are three [...]

The media are reporting that Facebook will be making an announcement on Wednesday (tomorrow) detailing their location service. So what will this service look like, and how will we use it? This has been an anticipated move by Facebook for some time now, and I personally am surprised it has taken them so long to jump on the geographical location service, which is already provided by Google Buzz, [...]

Below is a collection of social media products that I have gathered from around the web, which you may find in any geeks house. I appreciate this is list isn’t exclusive, and I am sure there are many more products available. If you do come across an item that is worth sharing, please do not to contact me and I’ll include it in this list. 1. Twitter Earrings: Twitter lovers can show [...]

How can you be lonely when you have so many friends on Facebook? Are you cursed by the social network generation of only having relationships with people you hardly know, or work colleagues that you would rather not know in person, let alone online? Has time move on from days when groups of friends got together in person for a night out or weekend activity? Do you feel pressured into having [...]

How will Social Networking websites look like in the future? Or more importantly, what functionality will sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide and how will we interact with friends, family and work colleagues 3 years from now. In the coming years, Social Networking websites will more likely become the hub or portal to all our online activity: 1. email: Most Social Networking already have [...]

Facebook is the most talked about web service, social media, and marketing tool around on the Internet. In Facebooks infancy, the social networking site is what the word described it as; a networking tool for friends to share information, photo and keep in touch with each other. As social networking has moved forward, Facebook has become a tool for marketing, branding, companies, products, and [...]

Today is being dumbed as quit Facebook day. The formal Facebook revolt was announced a couple of weeks ago over the growing debate of how Facebook uses and protects individuals data and personal information. Only a few people have vowed to quit amongst the 400 million users. In response to the users concerns, Facebook have announced an overview of it’s privacy policy. So, are you [...]

I was listening to the radio today and I heard a story about a women who used FaceBook to find her estranged brother that she hadn’t been in contact with for thirty years. This got me thinking about family members that you have lost contact with or even family members that you have never met but no they exist. So, I headed over to FaceBook to have a look at whether any of the major ancestry [...]