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Facebook gets approval to build a low-key second campus

, Mar 30th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has just received the "go-ahead" to build a second campus in Menlo Park. Menlo Park's city council, minus one member, voted 4-0 to allow Facebook to build its second campus. The new campus will be a 433,555 square foot building located on the other side of Facebook's headquarters. It will be located on 312 and 313 Constitution Drive, just west of Bayfront Expressway. Read The Full Story

Twitter reportedly to offer Vevo content via its music app

, Mar 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

It has been rumored for a couple weeks now that Twitter will be releasing its own music app using technology from its not-too-long-ago acquired We Are Hunted. While it has already been said that SoundCloud and iTunes will be integrated into the service, the folks over at AllThingsD are now reporting that a Twitter and Vevo deal has been struck. Read The Full Story

Facebook April 4 event invite teases Android-related announcement

, Mar 28th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has sent out invitations to an event on April 4 at its place in Menlo Park, California. What's it about? We don't know exactly, but the invite says "Come see our new home on Android," and so the two most likely options seem to be either a new Facebook app or a Facebook-related Android operating system. Read The Full Story

Tumblr now has 100 million blogs

, Mar 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

Tumblr has reached another huge milestone today. There are over 100 million blogs hosted across its network, all of which have accumulated a total of 44.6 billion posts. Just last April, Tumblr hit its 50 million blogs milestone, and in one year, it managed to double that amount, showing that the social blogging network has no intentions of slowing down anytime soon. Read The Full Story

Facebook game developers made $2.8B in 2012

, Mar 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

Executives from Facebook have revealed that game developers generated around $2.8 billion in revenue last year. Sean Ryan, Facebook's Director of Game Partnerships, spoke at the Game Developers Conference trying to entice more developers to join Facebook's gaming platform. Ryan stated, "Anywhere in the games business we are investing heavily." Ryan rolled out a bunch of impressive statistics to get more developers on board. Read The Full Story

Google+ adds support for animated GIF profile pictures

, Mar 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

A quick search will show endless Facebook users seeking out ways to use animated GIFs as their profile picture, and while that social network still doesn't allow it, Google+ has stepped forward to fill that void. As of today, users of Google's social network can now set animated GIFs as their profile picture, which plays on the account's banner when the page is being viewed. Read The Full Story

Facebook Events now show weather forecasts

, Mar 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has updated its Events feature to include weather forecasts. The weather forecasts only begin to appear when the event is happening within the next 10 days, however, but its a nifty little feature that should aid when planning a get-together. When you're creating a Facebook event, the weather forecast should appear right below the "When" section. Read The Full Story

Zynga distances itself from Facebook

, Mar 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Zynga has announced that it will no longer be requiring people to log into their Facebook accounts when entering its site. Zynga wants to distance itself from Facebook in order to become a more independent game developer. You are now able to access your favorite games, like Farmville, Chefville, Draw Sometihng, and more via a stand-alone Zynga account. Read The Full Story

Three BBC Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

, Mar 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

BBC had three of its Twitter accounts hacked early this morning by a group that calls itself the Syrian Electronic Army, which accessed its BBC Weather, BBC Arabic, and Radio Ulster accounts to post somewhat strange public proclamations. The tweets have since been deleted, and BBC is back to being in control of its social accounts. Read The Full Story

Google rolls out Hangouts Capture to make taking snapshots easy

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google's Jeremy Ng has dropped another announcement on Google+, this time introducing Hangouts Capture, an app that allows Google Hangout users to take snapshots during a conversation. This makes it easy to record those here-now-and-then-gone moments of hilarity or other situations you'd like to record as a digital memory. Read The Full Story

Twitter receives patent on itself after years of waiting

, Mar 19th 2013 Discuss [0]

This is a good day for Twitter, which just received a patent on itself from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent describes the Twitter service, covering such things as sent messages that aren't destined to a recipient. The patent request was filed back in 2007, and lists Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey as its inventors. Read The Full Story

Pinterest rolling out revamped design

, Mar 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Pinterest will be rolling out a newly revamped design to all of its users starting today. The new design was well received by a small sample group that had tested it back in January. The new design will help improve user experience by making things more "simpler and cleaner". Now users will be able to browse through pins, plan their fantasy weddings, design their fantasy homes, and crave their fantasy meals much more quickly and easily. Read The Full Story
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