Facebook is always looking for new ways to entice their users deeper into the system and keep them engaged. The more recent way they have come up with is to allow the user to designate their friends as Trusted Contacts. These Trusted Contacts will have the ability to restore access to your Facebook account if [...]

It has been only 2 or 3 weeks since a criminal case was solved by the police via checking out the accused person’s Facebook profile and it looks like the game has went to a higher level this time. Boston Police Department is allegedly having fake Facebook profiles that resemble punk music loving users and [...]

The last time Apple’s marketing chief, Phil Schiller, made it into headlines was by his tweets regarding Instagram. Last April, Phil Schiller claimed that Instagram had “jumped the shark” in its expansion to Android. And now he’s again topped the front page by throwing it at Google’s mobile OS. “Be safe out there,” reads Schiller’s [...]

Facebook has become a way of life but it still lacks something. Yes, it is none other than live streaming. But it looks like some people knew that this was going to change and that’s why they have already come up with the cutest and gorgeous gadget called Looxcie HD. This is a small video [...]

Facebook has let you pay to promote your own posts since October. For $7, the company promised that you could make a given post appear higher in your friends’ feeds. It was a new revenue stream and hasn’t created any hassle till now. But that may change with social pressure to promote certain important posts [...]

This is how a company should to treat their employees. Handing out freebies to employees surely speaks of some special love and acknowledgement for their hard work. Valentine’s Day is showering more love, especially for LinkedIn employees. Every staffer at the company has been gifted an iPad Mini. The company’s Chief Executive Jeff Weiner sprang [...]

Being a space junkie is kind of freaky these days as there is nothing much to do other than sitting in a room and watch all the stars twinkle. It is at this time that Google thought of stepping up things, and as a result, some of the lucky ones who love space can directly [...]

There is a Facebook app incoming, which is capable of locating your friends for you in real life, and not just on screen. The app is yet to be named, and hopefully it will have one when it lands next month. To summarize what the app would do in a nutshell is that it would [...]

It was revealed in a study at the University of Missouri that Facebook activity provides a window into the psychological health of the participants. According to study leader Elizabeth Martin, doctoral student in MU’s psychological science department in the College of Arts and Science, social media profiles could eventually be used as tools for psychologists [...]

There is no better way to reach out to the masses than through social networks, and even the pope realizes that fact. That is one of the reason why Pope Benedict XIV joined Twitter on December 3, and counts 1.4 million followers. While there are people who feel that social networks induce tardiness and addiction, [...]

What’s the first thing that President Barack H. Obama encountered at his inauguration? A down and almost out Twitter indeed! Oh yeah, that’s true folks. The microblogging site saw itself being brought to its knees, thanks to a peculiar case of tweet overload. After the outage started by around 2 pm, Twitter chirped about issues [...]

If you are single and feel bad about it on your social profile, here is a simple way. Just go to namorofake.com and pay those guys an amount of $39.99. After that, just sit, do nothing, and lo, you get a girlfriend (at least virtually) in seconds. So how does these girls come out of [...]

Social media is such a spread out, that almost everyone everywhere is immersed deeply into it. And that can’t be such a good thing if you are a gang member. A gang, who was hung up on social networking, got nabbed by cops, partly because they were bragging about it online. That’s never a wise [...]

Facebook is holding the Android torch, requesting its employees to turn to Android instead of iOS. They are even using posters to encourage employees to make the transition from iPhone to Android. The company’s walls, at headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., are being adorned with posters that say “switch today”. This new inclination of the [...]

Twitter’s finally done something that other well-known third-party Twitter apps can do. You can send emails of tweets directly from the Twitter stream. The new feature would be a helpful one to those who tweet daily, and keep a watch on their as well as their friends’ tweets. The feature will be available soon to [...]