Features

  • Article | 21/05/2012 10 ways Facebook will rule our lives
    After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded company worth $104 billion. With shares trading at a hundred times...
  • Article | 10/05/2012 Study: Facebook relies on good design to retain users
    What is Facebook's secret to keeping the world's largest user base content? Sticking to well-proven software design principles, one study has conclude...
  • Article | 24/09/2011 How to prepare your business for Google+
    Google+ just opened its doors to the world by enabling open signups and moving to the beta, testing phase. The nascent social network is still thin on...
  • Article | 7/08/2011 Video chatting for newbies
    Video chat is all the rage these days, thanks to new services such as Google+ Hangouts and Skype/Facebook integrated video chat. Video chatting is a g...
  • Article | 21/06/2011 How to take a great Facebook profile picture
    Recently, I saw something online that struck me as a little funny: Someone was advertising a service to take portraits for Facebook profile photos. Wh...
  • Article | 25/11/2010 The Golden Gobblers: Biggest tech turkeys of 2010
    For the fourth year, I'm trotting out my nominations for the biggest turkeys of tech.
  • Article | 5/11/2010 First Look: Facebook Single Sign-on
    Facebook is getting serious about on-the-go social networking with a suite of new features announced during the Facebook Mobile event on Wednesday.
  • Article | 22/09/2010 The five pros and cons of a Facebook phone
    Is Facebook building a phone? The company won't say for sure, but for some the idea of a Facebook phone is social networking overkill. To social butte...
  • Article | 17/09/2010 Diaspora could open new social scene for business
    The code was released to the public for a new social network designed to deliver the benefits of Facebook without the privacy concerns. The project--c...
  • Article | 13/09/2010 Things you might not know about Facebook
    Facebook has been in the media spotlight this year over privacy concerns, thanks in part cases such as the horrific murder of Sydney teenager Nona Bel...
  • Article | 27/08/2010 Google's Realtime Search update does what Twitter won't
    Searching for status updates is not Twitter's forte, so leave it to Google to make its own Realtime Search engine more powerful instead.
  • Article | 23/08/2010 Facebook Places vs. Foursquare: Who has the business edge?
    Facebook's unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Fa...
  • Article | 21/08/2010 Can you trust Facebook Places?
    Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location ...
  • Article | 20/08/2010 Facebook places will crush foursquare
    One of the odd aspects of the Facebook event launching the new Facebook Places service was the participation, support, and partnership of competing lo...
  • Article | 13/07/2010 Google and Zynga: 5 burning questions
    Popular social games like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Fishville may soon be available to Google users, if recent rumors turn out to be accurate. Google...