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Facebook scouts for suicidal beings with new tool
I’m worried about Emo-kind since this subculture totally digs talks of misery and death. Now, with Facebook bringing their suicide-detecting tool in play you know that they’re going to be framed as possible suspects. Well, the tool has a provision for contacts of a disturbed person to notify the 800 million strong social network about…
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Facebook might be building its own Android phone with HTC
The folks at AllThingsD has reported that Facebook had teamed up with HTC to dole out the first ever Facebook book which will run a modified version. The phone is expected to arrive in the next 12-18 months and the tweaked version of Android lets Facebook deeply integrate its services as well as support HTML5…
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HP Wi-Fi Touch Mouse X7000 packs Facebook button
The extremely stylish and curvy HP Wi-Fi Touch Mouse X7000 doesn’t need much praise for its looks since it pretty much gets your eyeballs in the first go. However, what really matters is the gesture-friendly response it sports. Left-handers like myself who have trained themselves to live in this right-hand-dominated planet will be thanking out…
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More FB friends, smarter you are
I will be printing out this news and storing copies of it in my side sling and when I meet the severe-cynical anti-social networking critics the next time, I will plaster this on their face. Researchers, yes, pay attention, researchers (close to terms like scientists and Einstein) have drawn a conclusion that the more number…
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Zynga to turn back on Facebook with plans to kick off its own online gaming splatform
Facebook users have been enthralled by Farmville and Cityville since quite some time now, though the developers, Zynga, have some pretty surprising plans in store. The developer is currently planning to lay out its own gaming platform called Zynga Direct where players can interact and play their favorite “Ville” games without having to use their…
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Facebook Timeline launch delayed over trademark lawsuit
While Facebook is still in the middle of a legal spat with Timelines Inc., it has announced that they have pushed the official launch of their Timeline product to a TBA date. Timelines Inc. bought a suit against the social networking giant for trademark infringement and also argued that its new Timeline product would put…
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Facebook engineer denies allegations of cookie tracking
Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian technologist had recently reported that Facebook continues to track the webpages you visit, even when you are logged out of Facebook. He also says that when the user is logged out of Facebook, the site, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, it merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique…
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Social Media Propaganda posters
Facebook, Twitter and a little bit of Google Plus is what defines the social networking space now. Aaron Wood, a Google Plus user has created some cool propaganda posters asking us to – tweet more, post more pics on Facebook and like statuses. [More after the jump]
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Motorola EX225 Facebook Phone expected soon
Not many social networking phones have made it to our shelves in recent times. The idea of a dedicated button or so for social networking can really fuel addiction for such sites, just what Motorola aim to do with their EX225 Facebook Phone. It’s quite necessary for a social media phone to include a QWERTY…
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Stanford student’s social research tool can predict your Facebook friends
Stanford University’s Jure Leskovec collects data to analyze human behavior on the web. So the traces of activity you leave on the internet, like your tweets, and the blogs you read can be used to predict who you would befriend on social networking websites like facebook. And all this can be gathered by using the…
