Facebook wants to become the key player for online communication and displace services like Skype, ICQ and email. In this context, Facebook just aquired Beluga, an eight-month old group text service which allows users to create groups in real-time and send messages to all the members of the group at once. The acquisition of Beluga [...]
It was Steven Spielberg himself who announced the best picture winner at the 83rd annual Academy Awards on Sunday. But in the end, “The Social Network” couldn’t stand up to “The King’s Speech” which won four Academy Awards on the night, including best original screenplay, best director and best actor. However, David Fincher’s The Social [...]
South Africa is one of the world’s top raising countries in terms of the development of Facebook population. In the last 6 months, South Africa gained 750.000 new users (+ 25 %) and now has more than 3.76 million users in total. In Africa, only Egypt has more users with over 5.6 million, of which [...]
Eminem is Facebook’s new most popular living person and has more than 28,880,000 fans on the biggest social networking site. The number of fans increases rapidly by every minutes that goes by. He adds up as many as 546,000 new fans each week. Only the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has with 29.1 million fans [...]
What is the best city in the whole country? Cape Town, Jo’burg, Durban, Pretoria or Soweto?! These are actually the biggest cities in South Africa. But are the cities with the highest population also the ones with the largest Facebook community? We searched for interessting and popular Facebook “City Pages” and these are our results. [...]
After the successful revolution in Egypt which resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian called his first daughter after the social network Facebook. People were using Twitter and Facebook as an active platform to spread information, mobilise and organize protests and action against suffocation in an undemocratic system in Egypt. As a [...]
Facebook has changed the way to show photos in newsfeeds. If you now click on a photo, a light-box will pop up which shows the picture instead of linking to the page that contains the picture. With the new photo viewer Facebook wants to simplify commenting and sharing of photos. Also, you better keep on [...]
There are new reports which say that Google and Facebook may do battle to aquire Twitter. In 2008, Twitter rejected an offer from Facebook of $500 million in stock. Now, the company increased in value and is worth more or less than $8 to $10 billion! At least that is what Google and Facebook offered [...]
The Facebook headquarters will move from Palo Alto to the former Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park which is situated ten kilometers away from the old offices. Facebook has signed a 15-year lease contract with an option to buy the campus after five years of lease. The eleven buildings of the complex can accommodate 3600 [...]
Recently, I received some mails asking me the same question which is how one can remove the Facebook profile from coming up on Google and other search engines. There is an easy way to delete oneself from Google search. You just have to know how as this function is a little bit hidden in your [...]
