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  • Some Social Media Icons

    If you’re looking for some social media themed images and icons there’s an excellent variety of them over here. Some are “free” for non-commercial use, while others are released under a Creative Commons license. Just check the license before you use them – though most of them seem to be pretty liberal. Enjoy! Related articles…

  • The Social Network Available For Pre-Order

    The Social Network is probably going to win a lot of awards before the year is out. If you haven’t seen it yet it will be released on DVD and BluRay in Ireland and the UK on February 14th. Play.com have it for €23.99 (bluray) and €18.49 DVD. Both prices include free delivery. Amazon are…

  • LinkedIn Loses Its Frontpage

    LinkedIn has been around for several years. For many professionals, including recruiters, it is “the” social network that they use. Unfortunately they seem to have “lost” their main page: But the content seems to have gone AWOL:

  • Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream

    Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!

  • The Social Network On Release In Ireland – What Do People Think Of It?

    Last weekend The Social Network went on general release in the UK and Ireland. It’s currently playing in most of the cinema chains across Ireland and seems to have been well received. Have you seen it? If you have, what did you think of it? Seemingly Mark Zuckerberg isn’t overly impressed with it, but then…

  • Twifficiency Shows How NOT To Use Twitter’s OAuth

    Twitter, in common with other social networking sites and services, has an authentication system. In Twitter’s case it’s called OAuth and it allows you, as a user, to give applications and service access to your account. For an application or service to function correctly it might need to gather information from your Twitter stream. Maybe…