Posts Tagged ‘ Facebook ’

On Farmville Addiction!!!

For weeks now, there has been a serious issue demanding my attention… It’s even worse than drug addiction; even worse than nicotine addiction; even worse than food addiction; even worse than gambling addiction; even worse than shopping addiction… Its called Farmville Addiction… [ READ MORE ]

Google Takes on Social Networking with Buzz!!!

Google has announced a new social networking service called “Buzz” that looks like Facebook but feels like Twitter… Buzz basically integrates your Gmail account and based on your location lets you share links, photos and videos, status updates with your contacts from your mobile device (supports iPhone, Android and Google has released a new version [ READ MORE ]

Bing Gets Its Own (Not So Short) URL Shortener (FAIL)!!!

Looks like Microsoft is also about to start a URL Shortening service…Its called Binged.it Binged.it is not yet public and is currently available only for internal use… Bing’s employee @fareologist has been using binged.it to shorten URLs when tweeting… I don’t see Binged.it gaining much traction… As compared to other URL Shortener its basically too long… Google’s [ READ MORE ]

Blogging vs. Micro-blogging!!!

I have recently been posting a lot on the micro-blogging website Twitter. For the benefit of the few who haven’t heard of it, Twitter is a sort of live blogging service where you post updates or ‘tweets’ of up to 140 characters. It is revolutionizing everything from celebrity gossip to the deadly-serious shifting of the [ READ MORE ]

Facebook and Twitter Hit Xbox 360!!!

With the new firmware coming out on Tuesday, November 17 Xbox 360 users can use Twitter, facebook from the console.It also includes Last.fm and Zune video compatibility. Note : Twitter, Last.fm, and Facebook will require an Xbox Live Gold membership ($50/year) and for some reason both Twitter and Facebook services require all users to be at [ READ MORE ]

Facebook iPhone App Developer Quits!!!

Joe Hewitt is the individual behind the massively popular Facebook mobile app on the Apple iPhone platform. He tweeted yesterday that he’s done with the project: Time for me to try something new. I’ve handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I’m onto a new project. Hewitt has stated that he decided to stop [ READ MORE ]