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Facebook adding interests lists to user profiles

, Mar 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook is always making changes, and more often than not any changes made causes some users to weep uncontrollably. Facebook has added a new feature called Interest Lists that allows people to keep track of the topics they're interested in. Your account may or may not have the ability to add interests right now. Read The Full Story

American Express cardholders can use twitter hashtags for savings

, Mar 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you have an American Express card and a twitter account, the credit card company has a system that will help you save money by using special twitter hash tags. The program is called "Tweet your way to savings." The goal is to get American Express card users to sync their cards with twitter and then tweet special hashtags in exchange for savings without having to bother with coupons. Read The Full Story

Wallit is like Foursquare with chat

, Mar 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

Wallit is an ambitious little app. It wants to be part Foursquare, part Facebook, part instant messaging, and part augmented reality. The final product is something that is genuinely unique in its own right. The app, which launched for the iPhone and iPad today, lets users create posts on a "Wall" of a stadium or other location, but only if those users are at said location. Read The Full Story

Sources claim Facebook is seeking more credit

, Mar 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

With Facebook planning its IPO soon, some early employees are looking at becoming very wealthy and possibly owing some significant taxes. Sources are claiming that Facebook plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover taxes when employee stock vests six months after the social network goes public. The tip comes from two different sources claiming to be familiar with Facebook's plans. Read The Full Story

Zynga debuts Zynga.com, invites third-party games

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Zynga has launched a beta game portal via its own domain at Zynga.com. This is a significant move for the company, which has so far been delivering games only through social networking sites, in particularly Facebook. The new Zynga.com portal will be the first time the company hosts its games independently and the platform will also host games created by third-party developers. Read The Full Story

Google+ now groups spam comments out of sight

, Mar 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

The Google+ social network has added a new feature that helps remove spam comments from your posts so you don't have to read them or deal with them. Since Google+ launched any spam comments left on the public posts simply been grayed out leaving you to delete them or hide them. A new update makes dealing with that spam much easier. Read The Full Story

Facebook debuts Offers, brings ads to mobile news feed and logout screen

, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook made a few announcements regarding its advertising developments today during its first Facebook Marketing Conference. The company introduced Offers, a special discounts and promotions sharing feature, along with new premium advertising placement and Sponsored Stories in the site's logout page and mobile news feed. It also previewed a new "Reach Generator" that will help improve the reach of each post for advertisers and Page users. Read The Full Story

Facebook friends Ford to make a “social” car

, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook and Ford recently held a joint "Hackathon" event aimed at exploring new ways of making cars more social. About 30 engineers from both Ford and Facebook got together for the 24-hour event to rapidly develop prototype apps that would integrate Facebook's social elements with Ford's SYNC platform to create a seamless connected in-car user experience. Read The Full Story

Facebook Timeline for brand Pages launches

, Feb 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has launched Timeline-style profile Pages for brands, with larger photos, a greater emphasis on your own friends' activity on that Page, and news pinning. The update, which brings brand Pages in line with personal Facebook Timeline profiles, also includes a new activity log and administration hub, making it easier to track engagement and respond to private messages. Read The Full Story

Google Voice adds Google+ Circles

, Feb 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Google continues to expand the reach of its social network and announced today that it is integrating Google+ Circles into Google Voice, its free VoIP PBX-type of voice calling and voice message management service. The integration allows you to assign different answering rules for each of your Circles. Read The Full Story

Pinterest adds NOPIN code to avoid copyright concerns

, Feb 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're a user of Pinterest, you might not like this development. There have been increasing concerns over copyright issues with the raging popularity of Pinterest. Pinterest has grown very quickly from 4.9 million unique visitors in November of 2011 to over 11 million unique visitors as of January 2011. The massive growth is attributed in part to integration with Facebook that launched in January. As more users pin photos of all sorts of things to their Pinterest pages, copyright concerns have been mounting. This has led to Pinterest offering a way for website owners to block Pinterest pinning. Read The Full Story

Reddit storm imminent after UK Pirate Bay judgement

, Feb 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the British High Court has ruled that The Pirate Bay website and its users have been and continue to engage in “large-scale copyright infringement”, this very possibly leading to a requirement that UK internet providers ban the site outright soon. Should your website “actively promote copyright infringement” you may be facing the same fate in the near future as so-called piracy continues to be an issue throughout the western world amid crackdowns on sites such as Megaupload for uploading and sharing media illegally.

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