Facebook has launched an interesting feature today: the ability to tag friends in status updates and other messages from the publisher. As with Twitter, you use the “@” symbol followed by your friend’s name (or the name of a Facebook Page or Group) to tag something, but the message shows up without the symbol and [...]
If you’ve got a Wordpress.com blog, you’ll be pleased to know you can now share an itsy-bitsy-Wordpress linky to each of your posts.
That’s right: WordPress has launched the WP.me short URL, designed for linking to your blog posts from space-limited sites like Twitter. It isn’t a general purpose URL shortener or rival to Bit.ly: [...]
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now.
At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates.
Obviously Facebook [...]
Late last year, we covered the UK-based INQ phone launch. While we don’t cover too many mobile phone launches, we became interested because its primary function, beyond phone calls, was social networking and Facebook (Facebook). While an iPhone or Android (Android) device has the same capabilities, the focus on social media was somewhat unique.
That was [...]
Like lots of you, we’ve been drawn into Twitter this year. After all, we’re all about frequent updates ourselves, and there’s lots happening around here that we want to share with you. Of course, we enjoy watching, and contributing to, the tweetstream (we hope you find our tweets useful, too). Because there are many programs [...]
When you start typing a search on Google, if you have auto-complete enabled, it will start to recommend different queries based on what you’re typing. So, for example, if you write “George,” it will suggest George Washington, George Bush, and George Clooney, among others well-known George’s.
However, if you’re using Google to try and figure out [...]
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