While many people online thought that the battle between Google and Facebook might cool off once Google+ was released, the events of the past week have proven quite the opposite. First, Google+ surprised the world by being remarkably good. After a number of failed social networking projects there was a great deal of speculation around [...]

Categories: Facebook, Google

I’m watching Facebook’s live video stream right now like many other tech interested users. Facebook promised to announce something awesome today. The rumor that it was live video chat, or video calling as they call it, proved to be true. But that’s only part of the announcement. Facebook is actually announcing three new features today, [...]

Categories: Facebook

It seems the Facebook development team is not at all amused by Google+’s way of handling groups. The new social networking network utilizes “circlets” – small units in which you can arrange your groups of friends. The idea is that you might find the process of choosing and organizing friends less fabricated than on Facebook. [...]

Categories: companies, Facebook, Google

I received my Google+ invite this morning and have been playing around with Google’s “answer” to Facebook since then. The thing that I like about it most is the circles feature which allows you to create groups of friends or contacts. One of the problems that Facebook currently has is that you do not have [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Storage has become a lot cheaper in recent years. Still, most services that you find online do not offer unlimited storage, and those that do are often not the most trustworthy when it comes to holding their end of the bargain. Photo hosting is one of the most popular online services on today’s Internet. The [...]

Categories: Google

Video chat has not met up to the standards that we, the people of the world, hoped it might. The hope was the perhaps webcams could become the way of the next generation and that they would become the prominent means of communication with other people. The telephone would simply be replaced by the webcam. [...]

Categories: Facebook, Online Services

There are so many different buttons available to promote, like, write about or +1 pages on the Internet that it is sometimes difficulty to keep an overview of the available options. Two of the most commonly used buttons on today’s Internet are Facebook’s Like button and Google’s recently introduced +1 button. If you are a [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

In an unexpected twist to begin the day on Thursday, technology news agencies began reporting that Facebook may be working on a brand new mobile application platform to challenge Apple’s App Store. Code named “Project Spartan,” the top secret undertaking poises Facebook to take on Apple’s dominance in its own self-created bubble. Rather than focusing [...]

Categories: Apple, Facebook

After the sweeping successes of Facebook and Twitter (and, in a distant, simpler time, MySpace), everyone wants to know around what social application or website the next social frenzy will occur. Many contenders have thrown their hat into the ring, including some of the biggest names in computers today, but the only really successful social [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome