Facebook Home: Integrating Facebook Features with Android Phones
A couple weeks ago, there began to be rumblings of the possibility of Facebook finally announcing something that has long been rumored to be the next step in the company’s evolution, a Facebook phone....
View ArticleTwitter Expands: From Vine to Twitter Music
In recent months, Twitter has been pushing harder to expand their market and also to expand on the features that Twitter can provide for its users. The first instance of this would be Vine, the...
View ArticleTwitter #Music Has Launched!
In my last blog post, I talked about Twitter’s recent acquisition of We Are Hunted and their eventual plans to launch a music application that would work alongside Twitter. Well, it appears that the...
View ArticleRecent Twitter Hacks Lead to Real-World Consequences
It is beginning to be very apparent how much effect Twitter and social media in general is beginning to have on the real world. Twitter has led to many major changes in the real world; people have been...
View ArticleHow Ads are Evolving on Social Networks
Those without a depth of knowledge regarding social media may wonder where revenue is generated from for these multi-billion dollar companies, considering the services are free for anyone to use and so...
View ArticleFacebook Charging Money for New Features
Facebook’s primary source for revenue has generally come from the enormous amounts of ad sales that they have made to countless companies that are looking for the incredible amount of exposure made...
View ArticleVine is Coming to Android
In a blog post I wrote back in January, I mentioned the launch of Vine, which at the time was a new social networking service launched by Twitter that allowed users to share six-second video clips...
View Article‘Facebook Phone’ Not Doing So Well
In a previous blog post, I discussed the announcement of Facebook Home, a feature that would be used as a custom homescreen for Android smartphones and would be launched on the HTC First, which has...
View ArticleFacebook and Google Plus Appropriating Hashtags
Hashtags are a relatively recent addition to a number of social networking platforms; the website they are most associated with would be Twitter, who have been using them since 2009. Essentially,...
View ArticleWaze: The Billion-Dollar GPS Social Network
If you haven’t heard of it already, Waze is a recent up-and-coming social GPS application that has been the talk of the town in recent months. Essentially, Waze combines the traditional interface of a...
View ArticleBe Careful What You Put on Your Social Profiles
Internet privacy has been a huge issue in the news lately, and for good reason. With the massive amount of information we all offer on the Internet, through social networks, blogs, personal websites,...
View ArticleFacebook Launches Video for Instagram
There was quite a bit of speculation going on back in June, where a number of reports were stating that Facebook was working on launching something big. In particular, all signs were pointing to a...
View ArticleFacebook Enters the World of Mobile Gaming
Facebook has offered games for a long time, with popular games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars becoming worldwide phenomena. It’s no surprise – especially with Facebook’s recent pushes towards mobile...
View ArticleFacebook and Twitter Cracking Down on Sexist Hate Speech
Recently, Facebook and Twitter alike have come under fire from certain activists and advertisers regarding hate speech, particularly that of a misogynistic nature. In May, after a weeklong campaign by...
View ArticleFacebook Making More Tweaks to the News Feed
At the beginning of August, Facebook announced a press event that would be focused on finally clearing up some of the confusion regarding how the Facebook News Feed works. In particular, they wanted to...
View ArticleEven More New Features Coming to Facebook
Facebook has been pushing a number of new features lately. Recently, I talked about a few tweaks that the social network would be making to the News Feed, but the News Feed is not the only area of...
View ArticleFacebook Launches Shared Photo Albums
Though some may not realize it, the major social networks are constantly evolving, regularly pushing out new features and making tweaks and updates in order to stay relevant. Historically, when social...
View ArticleTopsy: The Google for Twitter
Twitter has long had a search function that allows users to search for certain words or topics that they might want to find tweets about. However, the search function has always been limited to a...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening with Foursquare?
Foursquare originated in 2009 as a social network that allowed its users to ‘check in’ to different locations. Whoever checked in to a location the most would be deemed the ‘Mayor’ of that location and...
View ArticleThe Value of Facebook Likes
The Like button has been a major and iconic part of Facebook since it was launched in February 2009. In addition to its presence on Facebook itself, it has also become an integral part of the Facebook...
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