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Twitter Crosses 145 Million Users

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Maybe Mark Zuckerberg’s fears were correct. The CEO of world’s biggest social media network expressed the threat he felt from Twitter when the new social platform started growing like mad last year. Zuckerberg famously said that Twitter could “beat us” if it kept growing the way it was. Later he retracted and said that he […]

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Push Notifications For Twitter For iPhone Coming Soon

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Twitter just announced in an email to all major tech blogging services that they’re currently testing push notifications for iPhone and iPad amongst themselves and the feature will be made available to users soon. The option is already available on the new Twitter for iPad app released recently and now it’s coming to the most […]

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Facebook Testing Twitter Like Feature Called ‘Subscribe’

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It looks like Twitter’s ‘Follow’ feature is all the rage these days. After Apple introduced it in their new musical social network ‘Ping’, Facebook has also jumped on to the bandwagon. AllFacebook reports that Facebook is testing a new subscription feature that will let users closely follow someone they are already friends with (or fan […]

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Search & Sort Your Personal Online Data With Greplin

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Greplin is a new fantastic personal search engine that has emerged through Y combinator. We all have tons of personal data stored online in the shape of emails, social media based private and public messages, tweets, voicemail transactions, SMS and much more. All this data exists in the cloud and Greplin now lets you search […]

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New Facebook Version For Jailbroken iPhones Released

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If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you might have experienced some difficulty in logging in to Facebook occasionally. Not any more. The app has a new version out, 3.2.2, which fixes the issue for jailbroken devices. You can go to your Updates tab in your iPhone’s App Store application and download the new version. The […]

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How To Install The Official Tweet Button In Your Browser

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After introducing the official Tweet button for web pages and blogs a few days ago, Twitter has just released a browser based tweet button to allow users to just click to share the web page they’re on with followers. It’s extremely simple to install and all major browsers are supported. Twitter users can drag the […]

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LinkedIn’s Upgraded iPhone App Supports Retina Display

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LinkedIn is a fast growing professional networking site with a user base of 75 million representing 150 industries from around the world. The site allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients. The company has just released an upgraded version of its iPhone app to make business networking and contacting […]

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Facebook Places Boosts Foursquare Signups

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Foursquare probably expected this and thus agreed on collaborating with Facebook on the Facebook Places project. Facebook is the biggest social network in the world and also has the biggest mobile market share and that’s paying off for Foursquare too. Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley tweetd earlier today that Foursquare set a new record of user […]

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Now You Can “StumbleUpon” iPhone & Android Both

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StumbleUpon is a web based content discovery and recommendation service that brings the best of what’s happening on the net and around the world to its above 11 million users. Now StumbleUpon is taking the next step and entering the mobile market with its iPhone and Android apps. The smartphone revolution has taken the world […]

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Facebook Launches Location Service & Its iPhone App

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Facebook has officially launched its location based service called Facebook Places in collaboration with the current big players of the field, Foursquare and Gowalla. The service was unveiled in a press ceremony at the Facebook headquarters yesterday where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that they had been working on the project for the last 8 months […]

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Yahoo Mail For The iPad With HTML 5

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Yahoo Mail recently launched its HTML 5 based version for the iPhone and iPod Touch and now it’s the iPad’s turn. Yahoo Mail product manager Lee Parry announced the news on the official Yahoo Mail blog and explained that the service is similar to the iPhone and iPod Touch version, only optimised for iPad’s larger […]

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Facebook Scam Alert: The ‘Dislike’ Button Is Fake

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The latest edition of Facebook scams is here: the ‘Dislike’ button. This is to warn users that the fake button is doing the rounds currently on Facebook and appears in people’s status updates with a message saying: I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your dumb posts lol!!” or […]

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Internet Explorer Turns 15

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Internet Explorer still enjoys the biggest chunk of the browser market, 60.74% according to the latest data from Net Applications, and the world will soon see Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on September 15. It debuted in 1995 on August 16 and was based on Mosaic, a web browser Microsoft had […]

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Put The Official Tweet Button On Your Site Or Blog

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Sharing web content through social media is currently the biggest trend world over and is definitely the fastest and easiest. We all recognise the green Tweet button currently seen on websites and blogs all over the web but what many don’t know is that it’s powered by a private company called TweetMeme. Now Twitter authorities […]

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TweetDeck For Android Releasing Today

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TweetDeck is one of the most widely used Twitter apps around the world as it integrates several social media services and makes updating and sharing easier. It was a shame that it wasn’t available for Android based phones till now but it has finally arrived. All Android users can head over to www.tweetdeck.com/api/android_whitelist/ and sign […]

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Yelp & YouTube Apps for Windows Phone 7

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is still in development and MS have been teasing with all the features it’s loading it up with and has also put it out for previews by experts. Several previews of the Windows Phone 7 recently pointed out that the device was missing one very big and key feature which could […]

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iOS & Android Users Can Now Call Their Facebook Friends For Free

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All of you iPhone, iPod Touch and Android for mobile users, who also happen to be Facebook addicts, there’s some great news from VoIP giant, Vonage. Now you can call everyone in your Facebook friends list for free. All you have to do is to download and install the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app on […]

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Facebook For Android Overhauled Completely

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Android users have not been the happiest of customers to date when it comes to the Facebook app for their preferred OS. Not any more. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently downloaded the app for his personal use and all users around the world knew that if the CEO feels their pain, he’ll do something about […]

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Twitter Now Suggesting People To Follow

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The latest new feature from Twitter, which just began to roll out a few hours ago, is similar to Facebook’s ‘friends suggestions’ appearing on users’ homepages. Twitter is now offering personalized suggestion for users to introduce them to other users who follow your followers or who follow the same people that you do. It’s named […]

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YouTube’s Video Time Limit Increased To 15 Minutes

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It was announced today, to the pleasure of millions, that YouTube has increased its video time limit from 10 to 15 minutes for all users. YouTube is world’s biggest video sharing site and increasing video limit is one request that its avid users have been making for a while. Well, they heard the pleas and […]

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