Posts Tagged with ‘social’

How does that saying go? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery? If that is true, then FriendFeed should feel very special, because the most popular social network on the planet is taking pointers from the up-and-coming social aggregator.
Far be it from Facebook to let a good feature that [...]

We see a lot of different approaches to becoming unique in social media.  This is one of those moves that I'm just not sure what I think about it yet.  Multiply, a reasonably large social network directed towards adults, is now offering premium storage for photos and videos for the price of $19.95 annually.
The [...]

Though it's been some time coming, Twitter has finally revealed its private funding sources. With the latest boost in funding, the Twitter team should be able to deliver on its promise to the community to boost support for the platform across the board.
Twitter revealed, at long last, its sources of private funding, which [...]

Though I like the fact that Nokia took steps to acquire its own social platform called Plazes, I'm not a huge fan of companies trying to keep up with the Joneses. Those Joneses, in this case, would be Apple, which recently announced that a similar stalker-friendly tool called Loopt will be available for [...]

For me, any day is a good day when another developer pops up with a new mobile social platform. Today is such a day, as Jibe is moving from the alpha to the closed beta testing phase.
There have been wealth of new mobile social platforms making appearances as of late. My [...]

I don't use Firefox.  Say what you like about me personally, but I'm a dedicated Mac user.  I get what I need from Safari, and Camino makes for a nice alternative when necessary.  If I was using a PC, Firefox would be top dog, but thankfully, I am not. 
With that said, Firefox 3 [...]

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users [...]

If you are one of the many who haven't bought an iPhone, and don't plan on buying an iPhone even with the new low iPhone 3G price, but still subscribe to AT&T, I might never understand you.  However, my misgivings about your cellular provider aside, your peculiar choices shouldn't mean you can't play social with [...]

It's about that time again when the internet gets tangled up with tragedy and vindictive fingers are pointed hither and thither. This instance involves the tragic suicide of a teenager who was said to have been picked on and made fun of for his "emo" appearance on teenage social network Bebo .
Young Sam [...]