Tag: Social Networking
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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!
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Zuckerberg Redefines Pretentious
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been getting a lot of flak in recent weeks about Facebook’s attitude and handling of privacy for its users. During a recent interview Zuckerberg was asked several times about privacy. He failed to give a convincing answer. Watch the entire interview to see how Zuckerberg, yet again, redefines “pretentious” once again.…
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Should We Trust Facebook?
In the last few weeks and months Facebook has been receiving a LOT of media attention. While the social networking site would have attracted plenty of media attention related to its growth, the more recent spate of interest has centred around privacy. Or more accurately, the lack of it. Back in January of this year…
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Bebo Shutdown or Sale Iminent – So Where Does All the Content Go?
AOL bought Bebo a couple of years ago. At the time they probably thought they’d got themselves a bargain. Bebo was doing really well in the UK and Ireland. It wasn’t doing so well in the US, but that could have changed.. Of course it didn’t change. Bebo’s traffic shrank and upstart Facebook came along…
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Just Because You Can Is Not An Excuse – Ireland.com’s Stupid Automated Twitter Messages
Whether it’s technology or life in general you’ll always run into people doing odd things. When you ask them why they did it they’ll simply reply: “Because I could” Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that it’s either a good idea or even advisable. Take Twitter (again!) Using a 3rd party service you…
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The Apocalypse Is Upon Us (sort of)
Image via CrunchBase Today marks the day that Twitter “apocalypse” is upon us. You can read more about it here. Looks like most of the main stream Twitter clients updated to deal with the anomaly (or had already coded around it) Remember the Y2K bug? Remember how it was meant to mean the end of…