Foursquare initially found its niche with the location-based 'check-in' model, allowing users to see friends' hunts, whilst sharing their own locations and places visited. Facebook, with all its might and hundreds of millions of active users, tried and failed with its own integrated version, which has since been scrapped.
If you have access to Timeline, the new profile feature Facebook has been rolling out in waves, you may have noticed something odd when modifying or adding events and statuses along your digital life. When clicking on that little pencil hovering to the right of your friend’s posts, you are given a few options. You’ll see the standard “delete post”, “report as Spam” and “Hide from Timeline” options, but now a new selection has surfaced: “Change Date”.
You know how everyone wants to read Twitter and Facebook updates on their televisions, and possibly update their own feeds at the same time? Oh, you don't? Well, someone should really tell Panasonic, because one of the biggest players in the television game have updated their internet TV offerings with just that ability.
Social networking site Facebook appears to be rolling out a restructured format to the way its users view ads, which are now being placed atop the sidebar on the right-hand side of the page.
Google has today brought forth a significant update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users of its social network app: Google+. Google announced its Plus service, aimed to compete with the likes of Facebook, back in June, and it’s been in and out of news ever since. Google is possibly the only candidate capable of toppling Facebook, and after the "hello, goodbye" of its other iOS social app Photovine, the Big G has focused its efforts on improving the app for iDevice wielding Google+ users.
Google has released a major update to their Google+ for Android app today. The updates include a brand-new look, performance improvements and, get this, the ability to sign out! You can read more about the update after the jump!
If you are a social media fanatic, then chances are high that you have seen users posting images from Instagram, which is an app exclusive to the iPhone that allows you to add effects to your images and post them on different social networks. Google, apparently wants in on the action.
Despite Facebook's official mobile app having been installed on many a smartphone during the last couple of years, the social network still felt compelled to release a separate app to cater for the instant-messaging side of things back in August, appropriately entitled Facebook Messenger.
There isn't exactly a shortage of apps which allow you to be in sync with your favorite social network 24/7. Whether you're a Facebooker, Tweeter or erm, a Flickr, there are droves of official apps as well as third-party creations which keep you in touch with the world when you're not sat at the desk.
With Facebook being the focal point of media attention lately due to various updates, the news that rival Google's social networking effort was open to signups didn't catch the eye of the press as much as it might have done.
