Twitter is already a very active social network. Updates are pushed in real-time, users can ping messages back and forth through the use of mentions (or @ replies, as they’re known) and Twitter even accommodates sensitive communication, through the use of direct messages. It could be argued that Twitter is overly saturated with conversational tools, [...]
So, I’m a little late to the party. But I’m willing to bet than I’m not the only one. In the world of technology arriving late doesn’t always matter, anyway. The important thing is that you get there in the end. However, for those of you yet to embrace Pokki with open arms, the clock [...]
Facebook is a prime example of a time-sink. Since the introduction of Facebook Chat, we’ve lost entire afternoons to idle chatter with friends, used this new functionality as a vehicle to avoid get actual work done, and kept in contact with loved ones the world over, all made possible through the familiarity of http://www.facebook.com/. Facebook [...]
Facebook does a number of things very well, and in it’s defence, the social networking giant possesses a lot of innovative features. However, at the time of writing Facebook hasn’t yet graced us with the functionality to download a photo album with a simplicity of a single button press. I would imagine that such a [...]
Rather old tech news, but interesting none the less; Facebook chat has expanded its reach, and has been available for use outside of the traditional Internet Browser since late February. With an estimated 2 million chat messages transferred between users across the Facebook network each and every day, this development is an important step towards [...]
Today signifies the introduction of the new and simplified Privacy Policy for Facebook users. Those signing into Facebook today will be greeted by a pop-up box in traditional Web 2.0 style, which will indicate to the user not only the current state of their privacy affairs, but also offer quick and simplified methods to change [...]