In what is probably the “biggest” news in the month of April, Facebook has officially opened up its activity stream to developers through the launch of the new Facebook Open Stream API. So what’s the big deal? Apparently, the new API would allow developers build applications which would enable users “read and interact with their [...]

Facebook’s redesign has come under intense fire from a large section of its 175 million users. The new design has been described as being complicated, less practical, hard to use, etc. Some have even referred to the new design as “a cheap replica of twitter”, with others going as far as calling it ”completely stupid”. What [...]

If you logged in to your Facebook account this morning, you would no doubt have noticed the glaring “Terms of Use Update” which read; : Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return [...]

2008 saw a number of significant changes in IT trends globally, the most distinctive being the rise of social media in 2008. Chris Crum of Web Pro News takes a look at the Year in Social Media. It is quite obvious that there was a lot of activity in the world of social media. There [...]

A post on  Wired seems to suggest that blogging is “old-school” and that blogs are not what they used to be a couple of years ago. Paul Boutin’s controversial article begins with some words of advice for intending bloggers; “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got [...]

In a completely bizarre incident- not to mention a huge blow to social networking- a man in the UK has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife over her “status change” on social networking platform Face Book. Wayne Forrester murdered his wife Emma on 18 february 2008. The couple had [...]