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Nokia and Facebook in negotiations for mobile integration?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 12th 2009 No Comments

facebook nokiaNokia are considering a partnership with Facebook that would see the social networking site integrated with certain handsets in the company’s range.  According to “people familiar with the matter”, the two companies are in the midst of negotiations over how the setup might work, including which handsets would offer Facebook integration, and in what way.  One possibility is that Facebook’s contact information would be linked to a Nokia user’s handset contacts, with synchronization between the two and status updates from the online system displayed on the phone.

However Nokia is also apparently considering bypassing Facebook and setting up their own social network.  This would have the benefit of removing negotiations with a third-party and giving the company full control of the system, but it would also mean Nokia would have to build the network from scratch (unless of course they bought out a smaller, existing social network). 

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Introducing PreCommunity.com

By Shawn Farner on Thursday, Jan 8th 2009 No Comments

A few months ago, many people were ready to pull the plug on Palm.  Our own Vincent Nguyen even went so far as to say he’d never write another post about them again, effectively pronouncing them dead.  After today’s press conference, though, I’m willing to bet he’s singing a different tune.  I know I certainly am.  I was quietly optimistic about the Pre, but now it’s out there, I won’t lie – I’m excited.

In fact, we’re all excited about the Pre here at SlashGear, and to prove it, we’re launching Pre Community.  We invite all past, present and future Palm users to join us and help us build a thriving community of Pre fans.  Whether you’re an ex-Palm user, a current Palm fanatic or someone who might be interested in getting a Pre, we welcome each and every one of you to discuss the Pre, make friends and, most importantly, have fun.

Come check out Pre Community, and from everyone here at SlashGear – welcome!

CES 2009: INQ1 integrates social networking into your contacts list

By Staff Editor on Thursday, Jan 8th 2009 No Comments

Today at CES we got the chance to play around with the new social networking based INQ1 handset. This phone takes all of your social networking fronts such as Facebook, Skype, Windows Live Messenger and MySpace and fully integrates them with the phone so there is no need to download a single application.

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Tweebay combines classifieds with Twitter

By Staff Editor on Friday, Dec 26th 2008 2 Comments

tweebay offers a rudimentary ebay for twitterYesterday Paul Rawlings launched the UK developed Tweebay. I know we are all scratching our heads and thinking this sounds very familiar. Well your guess could not have been very far off from the reality of it all. Tweebay is a classified listing that you can post with your Twitter account.

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Meebo adds support for Facebook and MySpace

By Staff Editor on Monday, Dec 22nd 2008 No Comments

For those of us who would like to have all of our instant messaging services open but do not like having all the windows open and do not want to download yet another application, Meebo is the perfect web-based instant messaging service.

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Poken social network profile-exchanging keychain

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 19th 2008 1 Comment

Technologically advanced ways to exchange contact information have come and gone, but the business card seems to always remain.  The latest gadget to take on the challenge is Poken, and unlike prior devices – which generally target the busy executive demographic – this one is aimed squarely at young people.  Each keyring-style character can swap your social networking profile information with another, simply by holding the ‘palms’ together.

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Twitter looking for Product Manager to bring in revenue

By Staff Editor on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2008 1 Comment

2755v2 max 250x2501 Twitter is apparently trying to bring in a new Product Manager to help generate revenue on the very popular social networking site. These days is seems everyone is using Twitter to keep the world updated. The lack of a business model has been a topic of debate for quite some time now.

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PlayStation Home beta gets pushed out to PS3 owners worldwide

By Staff Editor on Thursday, Dec 11th 2008 5 Comments

Sony has announced that the PlayStation Home beta will be opening its doors to lucky PlayStation 3 owners today. This PS3 exclusive allows players to interact in a virtual social environment using text or voice chat. It more closely resembles Second Life and like their online gaming, it will remain free.

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RIM and MySpace announce record download numbers

By Staff Editor on Friday, Nov 21st 2008 No Comments

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Research In Motion (RIM), along with MySpace have announced record download numbers of the MySpace for BlackBerry smartphones application, for the first week it was released. Since the release of the MySpace application for Blackberry on November 13th, there have been more than 400,000 downloads.

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DIY Plant Twitter Kit helps your plant, well, twitter

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 29th 2008 2 Comments

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When I first saw this DIY Plant Twitter Kit I thought to myself, “No way. That’s just ridiculous!” But then I read up on it and, you know, it’s actually pretty ingenious. When you’re on the go, it might be hard to remember when you need to water your plants. This gadget helps you remember.

So since Twitter is super popular and everyone seems to be using it, why can’t your plant do it? I mean, your Xbox can blog! But now your plants can Twitter as well. With the DIY Plant Twitter Kit, you can set up your plant so that it will let you know what it needs watering.

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