Digg v4.0 Invitations Giveaway

by Haris on August 21, 2010
in Internet, Social Networks

Digg v4 is going to be officially launched for public this Friday, but almost a week earlier, we have got our hands on a few invites to giveaway for our readers!

Power ‘diggers’ all around the world are waiting on how this new Digg will effect them and their ways to pop up an article on the Digg front page. I just got an invitation myself to the new Digg 4.0, and I’m still exploring it.

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Facebook for iPhone 3.2.1 Released, Download Now!

by Haris on August 20, 2010
in Facebook, Social Networks, iPhone

Facebook for iPhone 3.2.1 was just released and is now available for download from the App Store!

This update only brings bug fixes and enables Facebook Places for users in the US. Other regions will be added soon, according to Facebook.

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Facebook for iPhone 3.2: Places Support, Background Photos Uploading

by Haris on August 19, 2010
in Social Networks, iPhone

Facebook for iPhone 3.2 app is now available in the App Store for download. This update brings support for Facebook Places, a new geolocation feature announced by Facebook earlier today – and it also adds background upload of photos and videos.

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Facebook Places Unveiled

by Haris on August 19, 2010
in Facebook, Social Networks

Facebook Places is the latest feature added in Facebook today. We knew this was coming as the rumours had been circulating for a while now.

Places is all about location services and how Facebook users can utilize it. Facebook Places allows you to check-in places just like you do with Foursquare.

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Add Skype Friends to Facebook

Facebook ‘s Friend Finder previously allowed you to connect with your IM buddies on Facebook. It still does, but with a new addition.

AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ Chat and Windows Live Messenger were the supported ones, but now Facebook also supports Skype.

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Twitter to Launch Their Own Tweet Button

by Scorpio on August 12, 2010
in Social Networks

If you are familiar with StumbleUpon and TweetMeme, a service which lets users share web content directly from the webpage they are visiting itself and not logging in to any separate pages, then we’ve got good news for you. Twitter is introducing its own button feature which will allow users to post and share their favorite web pages or URLs directly to Twitter without using StumbleUpon or any other third party source like TweetMeme etc

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Facebook for Android 1.3: New UI, Friends Requests, Video and Events Support

Facebook for Android was one ugly app that badly needed an update with its ugly UI and some features. This new update brings many new features such as a new UI, friends requests, video playback and events support.

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In the last update, Facebook added Inbox support to the app, but the latest Facebook for Android 1.3 is a much-needed update we all wanted from the ugly UI it had.

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Twitter for Android Review, Screenshots

twitter-logoTwitter for Android official app has just been released for public in the Android Market! Twitter promised an official Twitter client for Android, after the release of Twitter for BlackBerry app – and it’s finally there!

Just like my previous quick reviews and screenshots posts on Opera Mini 5, Fennec for Android and Skyfire 2.0 Android, I’m doing a similar one for the Twitter for Android app too!

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Twitter Launching @anywhere Service

by Scorpio on March 16, 2010
in Social Networks

twitter-logoEvan Williams, Twitter CEO, plans on introducing a new feature in Twitter, @anywhere, which will allow Twitter users to connect to their Twitter accounts using third party websites. This service allows users to easily share news while reading them online from different websites like The New York Times, eBay etc.

Twitter said they have developed a new set of framework which will improve Twitter experience. The new @anywhere feature does not work on the API already implemented by Twitter but works with simple javascripts. The owner of the side needs to add few links of javascript on his site to use this feature.

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