Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way people use the internet. Blogs and websites provide links to share information on the sites, and advertisers have completely restructured the way they approach internet marketing as a result of the power such websites have in suggesting particular products and services. Of course, most of us look at [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The largest test yet of the Internet’s new IPv6 addressing system is taking place worldwide today.  Companies including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook are switching on IPv6 versions of their websites for a one day trial. The current Internet addressing system, IPv4 has almost run out of addresses as its designers never anticipated the explosion [...]

Categories: The Web

Facebook introduced a new facial recognition technology last year that offered a semi-automated way to tag people in photos uploaded to the social networking site. Back then, that technology was only available to users from North America. Since yesterday, that feature is available for the rest of world as well. Facebook will basically analyze photos [...]

Categories: Facebook

I just received a handful of emails from different individuals who all wanted to know how to change their primary Facebook email address. While it could be all the same person sending me emails from all of their accounts, I’d say it is still worth an article. When you sign up on Facebook you have [...]

Categories: Facebook

One of the dumbest ideas ever on Facebook is that friends can automatically add you to groups. I’m not sure why Facebook thinks that giving friends the power to add you to any group out there is a good idea, but the feature is there and it is actively used. So, if you ever wanted [...]

Categories: companies, Facebook

Facebook has been rolling out new or improved security and privacy features in rapid succession for the past year. Many of the changes have only been announced on the official blog and third party sites like Ghacks that report about them. Facebook users who do not read the official blog or third party sites like [...]

Categories: companies, Facebook

Both Bing and Google are dead serious that search engine users want a search that is more social, that weaves recommendation’s, likes and personal messages into the results. This change is happening right now, as both Bing and Google are already adding social recommendations in their search results. The two search engines may promote results [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Friends on the social networking site Facebook are not necessarily only people that you know. It is actually very easy to befriend someone on Facebook, and almost as easy to unfriend them again. Unfriend in this context means to remove the person from the friendlist on Facebook. Some Facebook users may want to know if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Opera

Bing back in February announced the integration of Facebook likes into the search results. Friend recommendations appeared only on some results pages at that time. This changed yesterday with the roll out of the second stage of Facebook integration. What’s the reasoning behind adding friend likes to the search results? According to Microsoft, it stems [...]

Categories: Facebook, Microsoft, Search Engines