Social Networks Archive

  • SPIDERSS For Android: Browser, RSS Reader And Social Network Update Aggregator In One

    SPIDERSS For Android: Browser, RSS Reader And Social Network Update Aggregator In One

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Tokyo-based jig.jp has been developing mobile browsers since 2003, claiming its "jig browser (which was downloaded over 4 million times so far) is the world’s first Java-based browser that made it possible to view PC sites on cell phones. And now the company has released an ambitious Android app called SPIDERSS, which combines a browser with an RSS reader and an aggregator for social network updates. Available in English and Japanese, the free app's main selling point is that all elements are accessible from a single screen: You can either choose to directly type in a URL or search term in the top bar (to then open a full browser window), check your Facebook newsfeed and Twitter timeline in the "Application Deck" under that or scroll through your RSS feeds in the bottom part. All feeds and web pages can be easily shared by SMS, Email, Twitter or Facebook with the push of a button. Read the rest on TechCrunch.

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  • Nokia Messaging for social networks hits beta, brings Twitter, and leaves out the N900

    Nokia Messaging for social networks hits beta, brings Twitter, and leaves out the N900

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    See, this is what we were saying. It's not that we're not excited about Maemo, or that we hate S60, or even that we dislike it when a company like Nokia builds a free messaging app that integrates social networks like Facebook (and now Twitter) into the handset experience. It's just that Nokia has just built an app that only works on the N97, N97 Mini and the 5800, leaving the company's quasi-flagship handset the N900 out in the cold. The new app can upload pictures and videos, integrates with email and the dialer, and pushes Facebook and Twitter updates live to the homescreen. It also serves as a all-too-timely example of how hard it is to support two operating systems at once. Alright, we're done preaching, time to fire up the N97 and tell some people about our day. A video demo is after the break.

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  • Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Why are people falling victim to Facebook scams?

    Posted on December 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The beauty of essentially quitting social networking, as I have, is that I don't have to worry about all of the associated nonsense. “Facebook's new privacy settings cause uproar.” Really? Not if you quit the site it doesn't. “Malicious programs causing social network malaise.” Again, not an issue if you're not all-consumed with tweeting every 10 seconds about what you're eating for breakfast.

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  • Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network

    Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network

    Posted on November 5, 2009 | No Comments
    A Pew Internet & American Life study has refuted the idea that use of the Internet necessarily leads to decreased social isolation. Quite the opposite!, yelled a character in a Charles Dickens novel. It turns out that as people continually use things like Twitter, Facebook, and the like, they're both expanding their social circle and increasing contact with said circle.

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  • Civilization Network headed to Facebook next year, for free.

    Civilization Network headed to Facebook next year, for free.

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Sid Meier—yes, the Sid Meier—just posted a note to Facebook announcing Civilization Network, which “will allow you to join together with your friends to create the world’s most powerful, richest, smartest, or just plain coolest civilization.” It will probably be huge, yes.

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  • Survey: 13 percent of teens have posted nude photos of themselves online

    Survey: 13 percent of teens have posted nude photos of themselves online

    Posted on August 10, 2009 | No Comments
    A new poll, conducted by Common Sense Media, suggests that teens are complete idiots when it comes to comporting themselves online. A whopping 13 percent of teens have posted online nude or semi-nude photos of themselves or someone they know. And then some 25 percent of teens have posted something online that they later regretted. You know, drunk photos and the like.

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  • Facebook ain’t cool with the kids no more

    Facebook ain’t cool with the kids no more

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Sorry, but social networks simply aren't cool anymore among the 15-to-24-year-old crowd. (I'm 23, and have all but quit Facebook (I stopped tweeting a few months ago), but that's more of a function of me being an anti-social cad than anything else.) Why? It seems the older crowd—people 25 and older—has given social networks the unmistakable stench of being not cool. Why would an 18-year-old kid want to mimic the lifestyle of a 30-year-old?

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