Youtube link for mobile viewing Waze this morning has taken the wraps off Version 3.0, which brings Foursquare and Yelp integration to the Android navigation app. It's also bringing a new minimal user interface, and social location stack, meaning …
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Waze 3.0 brings Yelp, Foursquare integration
January 31st, 2012 
Phil Nickinson 
Posted in News 
Tags: Applications, community, foursquare, navigation, social, waze, yelp 
No Comments »President Obama to host a Google+ hangout Monday at 5:30PM
January 30th, 2012 Dan Graziano President Obama will be hosting his first Google+ hangout tonight at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. In the discussion, the president will be answering questions that were submitted over the past few weeks through YouTube. Google maintains that the White House has had no role in which questions will be selected. Google’s team will instead choose the top-rated questions among those submitted, ensuring there will be several different issues discussed. The event will take place in the Roosevelt Room of the White House and is scheduled to last 45 minutes. The hangout will also be streamed on the White House’s web site, and reporters and press cameras not permitted inside during the event. Obama has previously hosted town hall meetings on Facebook,
Posted in News Tags: Barack Obama, facebook, google, president, President Obama, social, Social network, twitter, youtube No Comments »Twitter announces ability to censor content by region
January 27th, 2012 Todd Haselton Twitter announced recently that it now has the ability to, and will begin to, censor content on the social network by country. “As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression,” the company said in a blog post Thursday. “Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there.” Twitter gave France and Germany as examples, two countries that ban pro-Nazi rhetoric from being posted on the Internet. Previously, Twitter would have had to delete specific content worldwide in order to prevent it from being visible, but it can now remove content on a country-by-country basis. Read on for more. The company’s
Posted in News Tags: Arab Spring, censor, censorship, country, Revolution, social, twitter No Comments »Google+ is now open for teens
January 26th, 2012 Christian Zibreg Google’s social network Google+ is now open for teenagers, according to Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz’s announcement in a post today. Everyone who is old enough for a Google Account (13-years-old and up in most countries) can now sign up for Google+. The executive boasted the many security and privacy features of Google+ that [...]
Posted in News Tags: google, google account, Google Corporate, google plus, social, teenagers, teens No Comments »Twitter looks to squash spam and malicious links with new acquisition
January 24th, 2012 Zach Epstein Twitter finally appears to be preparing a new wave of attacks on the malicious spammers that have overrun the popular social network during the past year. Web security firm Dasient on Monday announced that it has been acquired by Twitter. ”Since its inception, Dasient has been focused on solving web-scale security problems involving malware and other types of online abuse,” the firm noted in a blog post. “In 2009, Dasient launched its web anti-malware platform, capable of scanning URLs and websites for the presence of harmful content. In 2010, Dasient launched the industry’s first anti-malvertising service to protect ad networks and publishers from the scourge of malicious ads. Over the last year, we have been very active in securing the ads and content
Facebook forcing Timeline on users ‘over the next few weeks’
January 24th, 2012 Dan Graziano Facebook announced on Tuesday that the company’s Timeline feature will be forced on users “over the next few weeks.” Facebook introduced the Timeline feature last year, which transforms a profile page into a timeline of a user’…
Google Plus now aims its sights at Quora
January 24th, 2012 Christian Zibreg Google is adamant on accelerating work on its Google+ social network. By doing so, the company has already stepped on people’s toes. An upcoming Q&A feature from Google does not seem to be aimed squarely at Quora, a popular question-and-answer website, but the Quora people understandably cann0t be too happy about this development. See, according to VentureBeat, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Ask on Google Plus, google, Google Corporate, google plus, Quora, Search, social No Comments »Facebook launches apps for Timeline
January 19th, 2012 Todd Haselton Facebook on Wednesday evening announced new applications that can be used to populate users’ Facebook Timelines with new information. The initial launch apps include Foodspotting, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest,Rotten Tomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Gogobot, TripAdvisor and several others. “If you’re a traveler, you can add the Gogobot and TripAdvisor apps to bring a virtual passport to your timeline, and show your friends where you’ve been and share tips about your favorite spots from around the world,” Facebook product manager Carl Sjogreen explained in a blog post. Thankfully, Facebook has added an option that allows users to choose exactly who can see the updates from each application, which means Timelines shouldn’t be too flooded with updates about what an old friend from highschool has been cooking for dinner all week. Sjogreen
Posted in News Tags: Applications, Apps, facebook, social, Social network, Software, timeline No Comments »[New App] TurboCollage Creates Fun Picture Pile Collages In Moments
January 19th, 2012 Liam Spradlin Adding an entry to the long list of novelty photo apps in the Android Market, SilkenMermaid has introduced TurboCollage – an aptly named app that allows users to make "picture pile" collages in just a few moments, with a surprising amount of co…
Path for Android updates to fix ICS-Twitter authentication
January 14th, 2012 Phil Nickinson I've been desperately trying to convert from Foursquare to Path for bothering most of my social networks at once, but a pretty critical bug was keeping that from happening. But Path's just released an update that fixes Twitter authentication i…
Posted in News Tags: Android, app, Applications, Apps, bug, bugfix, facebook, foursquare, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, path, social, Social network, social networking, twitter No Comments »
