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Facebook’s People Tagging Feature Reported Broken

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Are you having difficulty tagging friends in your status updates using the ‘@’ sign? If yes, chances are you enabled the new publisher rolled out by Facebook for its ‘Facebook Questions’ product released on Wednesday. Facebook officials announced that they’re fixing the problem since the feature is still in the process of rolling out to […]

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Russia Bans YouTube Over Racist Content

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A Russian court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has ordered an ISP to block YouTube in the country as the site carries “Russia for Russians”, a video with hateful content against the multiethnic population of Russia. Russia now joins China, Brazil, Indonesia, Iran, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates: countries […]

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Safari 5.0.1 Released With A Massive Extensions Gallery

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After updating its computers yesterday, Apple took the next logical step today releasing the new Safari 5.0.1 with a great new twist. Apple has also formally launched the Safari extensions Gallery, a directory of extensions and browser ad-ons now available from Amazon, eBay, Bing, MLB.com, the New York Times, and Twitter. Apple introduced extension support […]

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Now You Can Put The Facebook ‘Like’ Button On Any Website

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The ‘Like’ button first invented by Facebook now features on more than 350,000 sites worldwide and of course the number is increasing every day. It’s become a very handy tool in customer feedback about all sorts of things; from music videos and photos to status updates and even deciding Facebook competitions held by official fan […]

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Facebook iPhone App Keeps Crashing, Thousands Of Complaints Pouring In

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All iPhone users (all models) have been reporting furiously online about the iPhone app for Facebook crashing repeatedly with no solution is sight still. While some users also reported it getting back to normal but the majority still have the app refusing to load and re-installing doesn’t help. The biggest number of complaints was reported […]

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Adobe Flash Going 3D Soon

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Adobe’s 3D plans have come to light via a leaked agenda for the Adobe Max Conference in October 2010 by Adobe Flash Player engineer, Sebastian Marketsmueller. The agenda includes a presentation titled ‘Flash Player 3D future’ and the company is promising a deep dive into the next-generation 3D API. It was later confirmed by Flash […]

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Facebook Fever Killing Orkut In India

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India and Brazil are the biggest Orkut using countries in a Facebook and Twitter crazy world but things are changing very fast in India in favour of Facebook. Data from ComScore reveals that Facebook attracted 18 million unique visitors from India in the month of May, compared to Orkut’s 19.7 million. In the past year […]

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Mobile YouTube Gets a Major Update

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YouTube’s mobile website, m.youtube.com , has just received an update revealing a new and improved user interface and support for better quality video for mobile devices. This is being called a major downer for iPhone’s YouTube app which may become irrelevant in the update’s aftermath. Google made the announcement on its YouTube blog calling it […]

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YouTube And Ridley Scott Bring “Life In A Day” For You

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After launching its search for the world’s most creative video last month, YouTube is now giving anyone and everyone around the world a chance to become a film maker and show their product at the next Sundance Film Festival. The project is called ‘Life in a day’ and YouTube has brought on board 2 Oscar […]

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Mozilla Releases First Beta for FireFox 4

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Mozilla has been teasing with the news of a FireFox update for about a year now and it took the first step today in actually bringing FireFox 4 to users around the world. The first Beta version of the new Firefox is available now and even though the official launch won’t be till the end […]

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TweetUp Becomes Twidroyd After Buying Twidroid And Popurls

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TweetUp is a popular search and advertising platform on Twitter and it’s now spreading its wings by acquiring Twidroid, creator of the popular Twitter client for Android phones. Of course the hook-up deserves a new name and to avoid legal trouble with Lucas films (trademark owner of the term ‘droid’) the owners are calling the […]

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Youtube & iTunes Hacked, Wikipedia Down

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A huge numbers of online complaints via social media and updates by news sources created a small pandemonium today when YouTube was hacked by the famous internet prankster group 4chan and a few other computer whiz kids. A huge number of videos went down but the biggest brunt was felt by the 16 year old […]

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What’s Still Wrong With Facebook’s Privacy Controls

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Facebook has been on a major damage control spree for the past few weeks regarding its privacy controls and has introduced simpler and easier to understand options and lots of new features too. The company though has addressed quite a few issues based on users complaints from around the world but has chosen to ignore […]

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Facebook’s New Face Detection Technology Makes Tagging Easier

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Sharing photos with friends and family on Facebook is one of the top most user activities and about 100 million photos are uploaded to the network every day. As if uploading 220 photos of your wedding, vacation or graduation is not tedious enough, tagging several people in each of the photographs is a drag. Facebook […]

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Never Watch a YouTube Ad Again

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Wall Street Journal reported today that YouTube is about to introduce a skip button to allow users to stop playing an ad embedded in a video and will not charge advertisers for ads that were skipped. This was announced today at a Google press conference by senior product manager Baljeet Singh. YouTube began testing skippable […]

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Yahoo Mail & Messenger Apps for Android Launched

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Yahoo and Google may be rivals when it comes to email and internet search but Yahoo is making a smart move by recognising the massive size and potential of the smartphone app industry and has launched today Yahoo Mail and Messenger apps for Android users as well as a Yahoo Search Widget for Android. Not […]

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