Some users, like Ryan Spoon, have already seen the implementation of Facebook’s newest media offering, a homepage take-over advertisement for eBay. A large display area on one of the most popular ‘left on screen’ pages we’ve ever seen, that ties in with a pretty useless* social advert displayed in the bottom right hand corner. As […]
Trending all over ‘social’ circles today is the discovery by Tom Waddington of the upcoming ‘Want’ button, that we assume will allow users around the world to add items to a wish-list on Facebook that any app can access (with your permission of course). This opens up the gateway to many forms of social commerce […]
According to a Google Lat Long blog post, you can now browse and find locations inside more than 40 buildings in the UK with the latest version of Google Maps for Android devices. Although most are in London, we do see Manchester’s airport there in the list. We see this navigation assistance becoming more and […]
It’s been a while coming, and today Facebook finally announced their own official plugin for WordPress. We’ve just begun testing it now, and will be doing even more vigurous testing with our partners at Divine Advertising over the next few weeks. (We are still busy testing another social integration method that opens up a site […]
With reports spreading about the distribution of over 6 MILLION decrypted passwords from LinkedIn’s user system, we must urge you that if you have made the error of using the same email and password combination for other sites that you CHANGE ALL YOUR PASSWORDS IMMEDIATELY! This goes for your email, facebook, twitter, or any other social […]
Those looking to invest in the social network will be happy to know that they have now bumped their total share offering to just below 337,500,000 shares. Facebook had this to say: We and the selling stockholders have granted the underwriters the right to purchase up to an additional 50,612,302 shares of Class A common […]
A few months ago we covered how Facebook officially said that there was no plans to implement a premium user group to boost their revenue. Today however a few friends of ours were greeting with an option to pay to promote or highlight their posts to even more people. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the […]
We are glad to see that the European Union is trying their utmost to push down roaming fees, and have already successfully dropped rates by 75%. As from July, it has been decided by Ministers of the Economic Parliament, that call rates will drop by around 20%. The goal is to have a gap of almost […]
A few days ago, Facebook announced that they have reached a partnership with some major online security companies. In order to enforce how seriously it takes user’s online security and privacy, they have informed us that they will be combining efforts to combat the rise in eWorms and Scams that are designed to spread via […]
Another playful Easter egg by Google was spotted earlier today. Search for Zerg Rush on Google (or click here you lazy people) and click on the attacking little O’s to take them out before they destroy your search results. *Update: You need to use Google.com if you are in the UK as it doesn’t work […]