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Facebook lottery winning fraudster found out

, Dec 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

You know the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. I'm sure anyone with a Facebook account has several people who have shared the photograph of a smiling, scraggly bearded Powerball winner over the last few days named Nolan Daniels. I've seen several people on my friends list share the photo with the caption "share this and I'll give $1 million to some random person." Read The Full Story

Facebook rolls out Photo Sync to easily share photos over the web

, Nov 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

A couple weeks ago, Facebook began rolling out a new feature on iOS called Photo Sync for a select number of users. It essentially is a service that automatically uploads photos that you take on your phone to a private web album. From there, you can select what photos you want to share with friends and family quickly and easily. Facebook is announcing that the feature will be rolling out to everyone. Read The Full Story

Google Play reviews now use Google+ name and photo

, Nov 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google really wants all of the content users of its various services upload and create to use their real name and offer their photograph. Not too long ago Google updated YouTube giving people who upload videos the opportunity to use their Google+ name and profile photo rather than whatever random name they chose when they register for YouTube. Google is now rolling out that more personalized name and photo service to Google Play. Read The Full Story

Thanksgiving was Instagram’s biggest day ever

, Nov 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

If you weren't aware of all of the Instagram users posting up their Thanksgiving meals to Facebook and Twitter, we're not sure how you missed them. The photo-sharing service announced that Thanksgiving was their biggest day ever, with over 10 million photos shared in the 24-hour period, peaking at 226 photos per second. Read The Full Story

Facebook to end user voting on privacy issues

, Nov 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

If you've been a long-time Facebook user, then you know how controversial some of the privacy updates have been on the social networking site. The company launched its current site governance model in 2009, which gave users the right to vote on privacy policy issues. However, Facebook is now proposing to get rid of that system, saying that Facebook has outgrown the old model. Read The Full Story

Twitter adds new email sharing option for tweets

, Nov 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

For a long time Twitter assumed if you wanted to share a tweet, you would just tweet it to your followers or friends. The problem with that was there still a large number of people out there who aren't on Twitter that you might want to share with. Twitter has finally announced new a sharing option that will help keep friends not on Twitter in the loop. Read The Full Story

Facebook makes changes to Friendship Pages

, Nov 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has made some significant changes to its Friendship Pages. The changes were made to highlight the time you spent with family members or friends. These pages will be incredibly popular with high school sweethearts and married couples who still like each other. Read The Full Story

Disney will focus on Star Wars mobile and social games

, Nov 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Yesterday's surprising acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd. and LucasArts by the Walt Disney Company was huge news, but now that the dust has settled, it's time to find out what the future holds for Disney, as well as the Star Wars franchise dealing with both movies and video games. One big aspect that Disney mentioned, is that they plan on focusing more on mobile and social Star Wars titles rather than console games. Read The Full Story

EA CEO says social gaming isn’t dying

, Oct 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

While a lot of people may think that social gaming is slowly dying away, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello thinks the contrary. He says that social gaming isn't dying, but rather evolving. Riccitiello was more specific in his answer, stating that the concept of social gaming is overhyped, but the speculation that it's dying is exaggerated. Read The Full Story

Facebook auto-liking pages for users without permission [updated]

, Oct 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Some more bad news has hit the Facebook front today. It's being reported that Facebook is scanning its users' private messages and searching for links to Facebook fan pages. Once it finds these links, Facebook supposedly automatically likes the pages for you without asking for your permission to do so. Read The Full Story

Looxcie HD video cam streams live video

, Sep 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

Looxcie has announced a new video camera called the Looxcie HD that can record full HD resolution video and has integrated Wi-Fi. Thanks to that integrated Wi-Fi, the camera can stream live video to Facebook at 480p resolution. That means you can share whatever it is you're doing with friends in real time. Read The Full Story

Facebook updates integrity system to detect fake likes

, Sep 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Facebook has announced that it has updated a component of its social network to help detect and delete fake activity. The update made is to Facebook's integrity system, and it will now automatically detect and remove fake likes to the benefit of brands and users on the social network. The integrity system is designed to root out fake likes including those purchased or made via other nefarious methods. Read The Full Story
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