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Google Goggles – Use Pictures to Search The Web

17 February 2010

Google Goggles lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It is ideal for things that are not easy to describe in words. There is no need to type or speak your query all you have to do is open the app, snap a picture, and wait for your search [...]

Facebook Removes Microsoft Banner Ads From site

6 February 2010

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Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world’s No. 1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business. However, Microsoft the exclusive provider of Web search on Facebook will continue to sell text-based search ads on the website as the partners [...]

Teens Lose Interest in Blogging: Study

6 February 2010

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Blogging by teenagers and young adults has dropped by half over the past three years as they turn instead to texting and social networking sites such as Facebook, a new study shows. The study released this week by the Pew Internet and American Life project also found that fewer than one in 10 teens were [...]

CEO Mark Zuckerberg Prepare for Some Big Privacy Changes in Facebook

2 December 2009

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In a rare open letter, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of privacy changes, starting with the removal of regional networks. Since its inception, Facebook has been based on networks. First, it was your college and university, then it was your city or region, and now it’s a combination of those plus companies [...]

Facebook to Introduce Charity Gifts

28 August 2009

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Last week, we reported that Facebook was opening up its virtual gift shop to third-party developers and also introducing physical gifts, for example, being able to send someone a dozen roses using Facebook credits. Speaking at today’s Social Good Conference, Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg made another announcement surrounding the Facebook Gift Shop: charity gifts. In a test starting next week, (RED), Kiva, Toms, and WWF will each offer 1-2 gifts at $5 or $10 each. Facebook users will be able to buy these gifts for friends, and the proceeds will go to the charity associated with the gift. This is essentially an extension of an increasingly popular offline concept the idea of giving a gift to a recipient’s favorite charity as a present.

Facebook to Tighten Privacy Policy

28 August 2009

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Privacy has been a central, often thorny issue because so many people use Facebook to share personal information with their friends and family The company will give its 250 million users more control over the personal information they share with third-party applications such as games and quizzes and will clarify what happens to data when a user deactivates an account. Currently people who wish to use such third-party software have to agree to share all their personal details with the application. With the changes, the application developer will have to specify which categories of data the software needs, for instance birthdays or geographic location, so users can give explicit permission. Users will also have to specifically approve any access Facebook applications have to their friends' information. Such access would still be subject to the friend's privacy and application settings.