Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

I have to start with a confession: I am a die-hard Scrabble lover in real life, but a Scrabulous-only player online. Hasbro introduced a Scrabble FaceBook application after Scrabulous spent vast amounts of time wiping the floor with them by having theirs up first. Frankly, Hasbro, your application is too little, too late and not as much fun to play.
Scrabulous had to know this lawsuit was coming, though. Profy writer Cyndy Aleo-Carreria predicted this lawsuit as far back as January [...]

Last week I attended the Twin Tech media event in Washington, D.C, and one topic that kept popping up in conversation was the issue of privacy in this relatively new world of mobile social networking.  Mobile social platforms designed to keep track of users' locations are all the rage, just like VGA camera-phones were many, many moons ago.
Though we may not be at the point where everyone can be found at the touch of a mobile screen, that day [...]

This weekend I have been very much impressed by a simple fact: even behemoths like Facebook still find time to listen to their users. I really thought it was virtually impossible for a single user of such a huge social network to be heard at all but I’ve received a proof that it’s really otherwise and they do care about what we think about their network, even if it takes them a few months. I am not sure how much [...]

Well, I think I can't keep my mouth shut about the redesigned Facebook now that I've spent half Monday clicking the refresh button on my home page and wishing for the new changes to arrive (and never getting them, unfortunately). Well, I mean I have received the new redesigned page and I do like the layout and the wider space I now have there. What I don't understand is why I only get some of the features [...]

I think there are a lot of people who still point at the divide between someone's "social" life — that being the life they possess as a member of internet-based communities and networks — and "real" social life, saying the void can't be crossed.  While we might not be at the point where our two social lives overlap seamlessly, there is still a lot of value in developing tools for understanding and enhancing our social life in the physical world.
One [...]

Perhaps the one thing I advocate more than the advancement of technology and the internet is using the success of one idea to slingshot ahead to the bigger picture; after all, isn't that the only way advancement really occurs anyway?  Meebo, known as being a successful instant messaging aggregator, just announced a new project called "Meebo Community Instant Messaging," a service that is designed to take the instant messaging platforms which are now very popular on social networking sites, and [...]

You have the most successful touchscreen handset on the market, your brand image could sell contacts to the blind, and guess what?  You are largely responsible for a roadblock in the advancement of mobile social networking.  What I'm referring to is the fact that new iPhone applications are not allowed to run continuously as a background processes. 
Of course, I doubt Apple or its head man Steve Jobs directly intend to inhibit the advancement of mobile social media by [...]

There's nothing quite like the smell of a copy-cat early in the morning.  But then, what else would we expect of our trusty social network Facebook?  Aside from the many other cues Facebook has taken from different social platforms, when the Facebook app rolled out this morning as part of the iPhone Apps store, there were more than a few people who noticed striking similarities between the Facebook App and one rather popular micro-messaging application. 
Its hard to miss similarities [...]

Now that I've been able to rid myself of those pestersome "Pet Hotties" application invites (thanks to the wonderful "Block Application" feature), I genuinely look forward to receiving invites to creative and helpful applications. Though many are still lack-luster and questionable, I'm quite pleased with the direction many developers of Facebook applications are taking.
One application I can legitimately say I look forward to using is the forthcoming application for Presdo, a social calendar application that intuitively allows users [...]