Tonight it was announced that Facebook chat now supports XMPP (also known as Jabber). This means that it will work with a host of chat clients, including my personal favourite iChat. To get it working with iChat you simply follow these steps: Navigate to iChat > Preferences > Accounts Click the plus icon in the [...]
In the past 24 hours, 2 of my facebook friends have posted a spam comment on my wall: “Found some super potent legal bud at http://www.b_bzop.co_ !!” So it would appear that either their accounts have been hacked, or they have some spy ware on their machine that is hijacking their sessions and posting comments [...]
Earlier this week Techcrunch revealed that Google were about to launch a new social network project called OpenSocial. Rather than push out yet another social platform, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have decided to stick to their strengths and core mission, that is; to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. With OpenSocial [...]
OK so this is old news now, but it just dawned on me how much Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) paid for a bit of the Facebook pie. First, let’s put things into perspective: Investor Site Unique visitors(GigaOM Sep 2007) Traffic GrowthOn previous month PurchasePrice News Corp MySpace 68,449,000 +0.1% $580 million Google YouTube 47,486,000 +5.8% $1.65 [...]
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