Tag: SOCIAL-NETWORKING

With more than 190 million users, and less than half of those using Twitter.com to post updates, the installed Twitter client market is massive. There are literally hundreds of Twitter clients spanning every desktop and mobile platform, and even a few cross-platform Web apps thrown into the mix. Even if you narrow down the search to just one platform -- Windows -- there's still a dizzying ...

The Facebook Photos service has always been a bit limited when compared with competitors like Flickr due to a hard and fast limit of 720 pixels maximum resolution. Thankfully, that limitation has been lifted thanks to an overhaul that includes a new photo viewer and an improved upload and tagging engine. Photos uploaded to the world's largest social network can now be up to 2048 pixels at their ...

Facebook just recruited Joanna Shields, who used to head the social networking site Bebo. Shields will be heading sales and business development in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA for short). It's actually a territory she's worked with before as she used to do a similar job for Google. The guy currently heading the EMEA section of Facebook, Blake Chandlee, will move on to more ...

Yoono is a social networking tool that lets you access data and update your status on networks including Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Twitter, and FriendFeed. The utility started out its life as a browser toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer, but Yoono recently launched a desktop client that provides all the same features and then some. Basically, the Yoono desktop client for Windows or Mac ...

When Yammer first launched, I thought it wasn't going to last long. A Twitter for business? It sounded like an opportunistic idea to latch onto Twitter when it was clearly about to take off. Yammer has taken on a life of its own, though, and it's got the new iPhone app and threaded conversations to prove it. The Yammer app has something that Twitter apps to date have been struggling to achieve: ...

Phishing [Wikipedia] is nothing new. The bad guys have been spamming our inboxes for a long, long time hoping we'll click on some bogus link and provide them with important personal info like usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers. Attacks like this rarely limit themselves to one avenue. So where do the bad guys go to find victims when they're not busy spamming? Why, the world's number ...

If you've been on Twitter since the beginning, you know that @replies weren't always supported the way they are now. The @username convention started from the ground up, with Twitter's users, and the functionality was coded afterward. Now, the same thing is happening with retweets, according to a blog post by Twitter's Biz Stone. Although the design hasn't been finalized, "Project Retweet" looks ...

With the rise of social networking profiles and photo sharing sites, people are putting more photos of themselves online than ever. Retouching, Photoshopping and the infamous "MySpace angle" have all done wonders to make people look better in photos, and now we can add PicTreat to that list. It's a fast, easy way to give yourself a perfect complexion ... on the web, anyway. PicTreat removes ...

There's a social network for just about everything these days, so it only makes sense that serious tea drinkers would get a social site of their own. It's called Steepster, and once you get your head around the idea that someone built a social network around tea, it's quite well-executed. Users can enter what they drink in a personal tealog, including comments or tasting notes that could come in ...

When Facebook first announced it would be allowing users to pick vanity URLs, a lot of people rushed to claim some version of their real names, but others just picked something they thought would be funny or clever. If you recall, the vanity URL would allow you to use facebook.com/johnsmith if you were John Smith. Of course, if you weren't John Smith you could still grab the name, hence the mad ...

If you've ever had your Facebook account taken over and used to spam your friends, or if you've ever been on the receiving end of that spam, you might be happy to hear that Facebook is actually doing something about it. In a blog post on Friday, the social network announced the rollout out of new verification procedures for logging into an account that appears to be compromised. When Facebook ...

We all went ga-ga over Google Wave when it was announced back at Google's I/O conference in May, but except for a very fortunate few, we really don't know what it will be like to use. Today online productivity suite developer ZenBe released a new product called Shareflow, which has a number of similarities to Google Wave. Shareflow is a collaboration tool that ZenBe says is not email, IM, social ...

Sharing pictures on FriendFeed is nothing new, but now it's just as easy to share other file types on the popular social network. You can either upload a file on the FriendFeed website, or email it as an attachment to share@friendfeed.com. The feature is intended for stuff like PDFs and spreadsheets, but you can also upload music files like mp3s and m4as. Mp3s are playable and downloadable on ...

Sharing your location via a mobile device is a great way to let friends and family know where you are, and encourage people you know to meet up with you. The challenge is in making it as easy as possible for the right people to see your location while hiding it from random Internet strangers. Glympse is a clever new approach to the problem, allowing location-sharing on a time limited ...

Favorites are a dramatically underused feature on Twitter, but if you know where to look, you can use them to find some people you might be interested in following. Twitterbelle is a new site that makes that process easier. Just put in the username of someone you think is interesting and has good taste in friends, and you'll see a list of the people he or she has awarded favorites to. This is a ...