The video that I show them next is one more sample of what the technology and the social networks have influenced in the way of acting of the persons. A man called Dana Hanna, who is employed like architects’ chief at an Internet place on pets, has hung on Internet a video in [...]
Just today I wondered whether I could sing Facebook Emoticons, note I gave it possible. I asked the parents and friends, they said it might be possible, but it took me one hundred percent correct answer out of him I could definitely profit. I was looking on the internet, but in vain. I accidentally on [...]
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Marie* was expecting a typical day when she arrived at her advertising job one January day [...]
Christmas time is around the corner and everyone is busy with shopping and making arrangements for celebrations across the globe. The festive spirit is all around us. One thing i love about Christmas is sharing: sharing the love, the message, the gifts, helping someone, and making someone feel loved. Coming to Facebook, BioWare’s new R&D group, BioWare [...]
Exactly one year ago, Facebook officially opened up Connect for all developers, and one year later, Facebook’s identity service is in the lead, rivaled only by Google and Twitter both of which have much smaller representations of the global social graph. Since launch, the company has generated a ton of buzz for the still [...]
Zynga’s at it again with another virtual world game, PetVille, which lets users raise a pet. If it sounds familiar, that’s because it’s extremely similar to Playfish’s most popular game, Pet Society. Zynga now has competing applications to most of Playfish’s top games and they don’t appear to be stopping. You might [...]
Washington D.C. has been abuzz about the couple who crashed a Presidential party and proceeded to post photos of themselves on Facebook. Yesterday the secret service confirmed that they had used Facebook after the event to find out that the couple was not permitted to attend. The photos of the Salahis with President [...]
Hackers and spammers have been using relatively similar tactics over the past few months to compromise Facebook user accounts. The most recent scam spreading on Facebook involves the use of hijacked user accounts for sending out chat messages with links to the standard Facebook phishing page. When the user clicks the link, they [...]
Casi Lumbra, 17, is an advisory board member for MTV’s A Thin Line campaign, which launched today to help teens stop the spread of digital abuse. She’s also a member of WiredSafety.org’s Teenangels, a group of teens trained in all aspects of online safety, privacy and security. While people on Facebook may never encounter [...]
Zynga, the company behind hit Facebook games like FarmVille and Cafe World, is going all out with the “ville” games. While many are still getting used to the idea of FishVille, which followed close to FarmVille and YoVille, the company has gone ahead and launched a new Facebook sim game called PetVillie. According to the company, [...]