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Social Network Wars Explained

Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services. Of course by doing this they can upset each other…

Twitter Goes Offline

Twitter has been offline for the last 30 minutes. It’s not even showing the (in)famous “fail whale” at the moment! So you can expect to see a surge of traffic to Facebook and Google+ 🙂

Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…

Google+ Vs Facebook Humour

Came across this animated image on Google+ earlier today and thought it was amusing enough to share: No idea where it originated, so if you know the image source please let me know

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…

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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