March 1, 2010
Just a day back, iTunes posted news about its 10 billionth download. The figure is just a statistic for most of us, but it is indicative of the popularity of music on the World Wide Web. Come to think of it, iTunes is just a slice of the pie. I don’t have the figures for [...]
February 26, 2010
Using your Blackberry to stay plugged into your favourite social networks may not occur to you to be one of the first ways to use your smartphone, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a few useful apps for keeping up with what’s going on Facebook, Twitter and a few other popular networking sites. The four [...]
February 11, 2010
Plurk is a Twitter clone that offers a wealth of features. Much like “better than Windows” operating systems or “better than Internet Explorer” browsers, Plurk has never managed to surpass Twitter. In November 2009, Microsoft launched its own microblogging platform in China, featuring an exact copy of the Plurk layout. In the meantime, Plurk has [...]
February 11, 2010
The Facebook home page changed again! They are so good at it, aren’t they? I’m not sure how I feel about this “gradual unveiling” thing. I received the new and improved navigation design a few days before many of my friends, even my wife! Facebook usually catches a lot of flack whenever any kind of [...]
January 22, 2010
Those of us that have been using “the Twitter” for a while have it pretty much figured out by now. We hop onto our favorite free Twitter tools like TweetDeck, quickly glance at our many columns of rapidly-updating information, check out trending topics, and casually send replies and retweets. This type of usage is no [...]
January 20, 2010
Searching Twitter is easy enough. Along with Twitter’s own official search engine, there’s a whole flurry of websites and apps out there dedicated to searching the popular social networking and microblogging service, like Scoopler, Twazzup, and TweetScan just to name a few. By now, we all know the power of Twitter and its users to [...]
January 18, 2010
Your personal newspaper in less than 5 minutes. Custom news sites are nothing novel. Google itself has a Custom News feature. Then there are a host of other news aggregators like Meehive and DailyMe. We have top lined quite a few ourselves. These web services allow you to personalize your news just the way you [...]
January 18, 2010
While the iPhone interface for Google Reader is pretty slick, there are a few extra options that it could do with. The free version of MobileRSS [iTunes Store link], a Google Reader iPhone app makes up for what Google have missed out on. Setting up the Google Reader app is simple. On launching it, you’ll [...]
January 13, 2010
We have covered 8 steps to regain control of your Facebook Privacy in Part 1. If you haven’t already, please read it, as we covered privacy basics in search visibility, photos and videos, relationships and contact information. Let us now proceed with the next steps concerning Facebook privacy controls in the context of applications, friends, [...]
January 12, 2010
My earlier post on 10 Solid Tips to Safeguard Your Facebook Privacy was one of the Top 10 Most Popular MakeUseOf Posts in 2009, indicating that users are seriously concerned about their privacy on the world’s largest social network. However, Facebook has updated their privacy settings and philosophy since then, which brings us to this [...]
