The majority of users today hop online primarily to visit social networks and stay connected with friends and family. As such, developers are gearing more and more towards stitching together all of those social media experiences into the clients and applications we use most. Microsoft is no different. The Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta saw the [...]
I first read about RockMelt in my newspaper. No, not in an RSS feed–in my dead tree version of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, via an AP story announcing “Internet pioneer backs new way to surf.” The fact that I read about a new way to surf in the old media raised a flag for me. [...]
Like most Gen-Y’ers, I refuse to learn anything unless you present it to me in the form of a game and/or allow me to brag about my mad skillz on my Facebook wall. For example, Guitar Hero’s initiative to teach frat boys how to push buttons in time with Van Halen songs was a smashing [...]
Last Friday was an eventful day for drop.io founder Sam Lessin, he sold his company and was recruited into a major internet company. For the rest of the internet however, this day was a defeat in the battle between good vs. Evil. Drop.io was acquired by the internet giant, Facebook, on October 29th. For drop.io [...]
Today Facebook is rolling out two new updates. One of them is concerning user groups, and the other is a feature that will allow you to download ALL of your user data. It reminds me of a lot of filing for Discovery when you are fighting a court case, you get a copy of all [...]
OUCH…. I just got an update on Facebook from a friend asking what I was doing in a video they saw. I clicked on the link and discovered I needed to login again to Facebook again… Huh, that’s odd I thought as my fingers quickly leveraged muscle memory and banged out my username and password again. [...]
Facebook just rolled out a new friend request “feature” that is replacing the good ole’ Ignore button. The new button is called Not Now, and it is completely redefining the way you reject people. Previously, when you were sent a friend request by someone you had two options; confirm or ignore. Now, instead of the [...]
A lot of changes have been happening on Facebook. One of the more surprising things I noticed was that the entire Info tab of my profile was turned into nothing but a giant link list to Facebook Fan Pages. I mean, I may be interested in cheeseburgers but that doesn’t mean I want to join [...]
In an earlier article we took a look at how to use Google to track global flu trends in search. This time we’re going to use Google Trends to track the status of Facebook. According to the results, many Facebook members are attempting to flee, or at least wanting to know how. Here on groovyPost [...]
Does your Facebook account have installed applications? If so, due to recent privacy changes over at facebook you might want to consider just how much personal information (including photos) you have stored on your facebook account. While applications already had full access to all of your personal data, now they will be able to store [...]
For quite some time Google Docs has been dominating the online document sharing business, but now Microsoft is striking back. As announced by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during the Facebook F8 developer live conference Microsoft Fuse Labs has teamed up with Facebook to create an all new document sharing site, Docs.com. The URL is simple [...]
When we previously talked about your Privacy on Facebook, things didn’t look good. Now Facebook is taking it down another notch. With the current communication system in Facebook you’ll receive app alerts through the red-flag notification button at the bottom-right of your page. With a new update coming from Facebook, they plans to instead force [...]
Whether you’re a casual Facebooker, or a full-time twit-a-holic, wouldn’t it be nice if you could just update your status in one place and have it update both your accounts? Huge time saver right? Good news! Twitter has a Facebook application that will allow you to post all your tweets directly to your Facebook status. [...]
How to permanently delete your Facebook account vs disable or deactivate it. Simply follow this tutorial with screenshots to easily delete your account.
