Year: 2011
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Gowalla To Go The Way Of The Dodo
Gowalla is to be shutdown. After being acquired by Facebook the “also ran” to FourSquare will be shutting down early in 2012, according to Techcrunch. So while Facebook may have acquired the skills and experience of the FourSquare team, they’re not taking over all the data. So will Facebook use some of the technology to…
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla
Facebook has acquired Gowalla according to reports. Gowalla, which offers very similar functionality to FourSquare, never quite seemed to be as popular as its rival. Facebook had been offering a location based service for its mobile users, but they were reportedly going to be phasing it out, but with the addition of Gowalla that will…
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Guinness Try To Force Age Restrictions On Twitter
Guinness Ireland’s Twitter account is a bit odd. They want to restrict their followers to people over the age of 18! Of course I’m not “following” their account, but I can still see all their content! And here’s the screenshot to prove it: I think the word I’m looking for is “fail” They’ve posted a…
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Google+ Gets Games
It was only a matter of time before Google+ would start expanding its offering to users. The first addition being rolled out to users is games, which are accessible via the subtle new button in the interface: So what’s on offer? On my own account I’m seeing a range of 16 games including a couple…
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Why Is Google+ Full Of Animated Gifs?
If you are using Google+ you’ll probably have noticed that there are a very large number of animated gifs being shared. Normal photos, images and videos are also being shared, but there seems, to me at least, to be a very large volume of animated gifs So will Google+ result in an upswing in popularity…
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Google To Kill Off Private Profiles
As Google rejigs its entire user interface and renames a bunch of its services to fit in with its new web 3.0 (or whatever) vision user profiles are being changed. …. From July 31st 2011 private profiles are being not only disabled, but actually deleted: The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to…