Tag Archives: social networking

Nov
11

Kids becoming more internet savvy

internet A new survey carried out by kids’ social networking site Yoursphere has found that children between the ages of 9 and 15 years are pretty clued up on the issue of.. more
Jul
22

Google+ hits 20 million users

google-plus Google’s foray into social media continues is success reaching 20 million users despite not yet being widely available to newcomers. In just three weeks of opening the members list has recently.. more
Jul
13

Over half of parents spy on kids social networking

internet Internet security firm BullGuard has posted the results of a survey it commissioned on 2,000 UK internet users to determine how they monitored their offspring when online. And the results show.. more
Jun
30

Google Plus: Revealed

Google recently announced their new social network, named Google Plus, was to be released shortly. Today more information about it has been revealed, and it has become open for limited field trails, which has allowed people to request an invite to the network to start.. more
Dec
06

Facebook introduces new profile page design

Facebook has been tinkering again, and the result is a new, more visual focused profile page for its half billion plus user base. The rejigged page is headed up by basic information about the user, such as their job, where they live and who their.. more
Nov
23

Berners-Lee warns Facebook is fragmenting the web

Web architect Tim Berners-Lee has had his soap box out again, on the subject of the great worldwide construct he is credited as inventing. Berners-Lee has written an article in the Scientific American accusing online juggernauts such as Facebook of subverting the web for their.. more
Nov
18

Facebook Credits gift cards now on sale in the UK

Tesco and Game in the UK are to sell the virtual currency of Facebook in gift card form. In other words, you’ll be able to drop into their shops and pick up a gift voucher present, which can then be spent by the recipient on.. more
Nov
10

Wednesday NewsBytes: Queen has 200,000+ Facebook fans; Android now on 25% of smartphones worldwide

The Queen now has 205,000 fans on her Facebook page. She had just shy of 200,000 this morning, so it appears that her explosion in social networking popularity over the last 48 hours is now spluttering out. The pro and anti royalty debates are still.. more
Sep
21

Facebook aims to do more to tackle scams

Facebook users being scammed and their accounts being hacked is becoming a major problem, the Head of European Public Policy for the site, Lord Richard Allan, has admitted. Allan told the Guardian newspaper that as a result of this, Facebook was tightening up its security.. more
Sep
15

Twitter gets a facelift

Twitter has undergone a substantial redesign in order to provide a more streamlined and richer tweeting experience. The new Twitter features two panels, with one on the left listing a stream of tweets as ever, although you can also switch away from the standard tweet.. more