Sexuality, political leanings and even intelligence can be gleaned from the things you choose to “like” on Facebook, a study suggests. Researchers at Cambridge University used algorithms to predict religion, politics, race and sexual orientation. The research, published in the…
Social media has taken over the world. New sites are sprouting up every few months, and we came across this great visual explanation of how they differ. Enjoy, hope it helps.
Yesterday Facebook accidentally previewed an upcoming feature which forced engineers to shut down the site as they scrambled to put the “internal prototype” back in its box. Facebook Memories introduces a timeline to users’ profiles, showing how many statuses…
So we were just on Facebook, up to the usual shenanigans…updating passwords and editing various profile tabs….and then we noticed a strange new option in the “account settings” menu…it looked like this: WOW! REALLY!? DOWNLOAD ALL MY PICS AND…
You’ve probably already noticed that Facebook automatically detects faces and prompts you to tag your friends when you upload pictures. What you may not know is that in a few weeks, Facebook’s new facial recognition feature will scan your…
It’s old news, but it’s just leaking out now. Apparently Microsoft tried to acquire Facebook in 2007 for somewhere around $15 billion. According to the book The Facebook Effect, Ballmer of Microsoft asked Mark Zuckerberg directly, “Why don’t we…
Get ready for a new invasion wave from Facebook: Mail. According to Techcrunch’s sources, a full webmail client integrated with Facebook will debut next Monday. This could be your favourite mail service. Google, Yahoo and Hotmail must be very…
“I like it on the floor,” “I like it on the couch,” “I like it on my desk” … you may have seen some of these Facebook status updates today. But what is “it”? It is for “purse.” The…
I came across a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X called Adium. Adium is a fast and free open source instant messaging client which supports AIM, Facebook chat, ICQ, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour and…
A report from TechCrunch today claims that Facebook may be working on a phone of its own to compete in the ever-warming smartphone race. According to a “source who has knowledge of the project,” the social networking site has…