Twitter made an announcement earlier today that they have added an “always use HTTPS” option on the popular messaging website. HTTPS protects the connection to Twitter from third parties that try to eavesdrop on network traffic. A small example: Say you log in via http while sipping on a hot cup of Java in your [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

With the recent Google Search algorithm update I finally decided to go ahead with my plans to diversify the traffic profile of this website. I was far to long dependent on one company and would like to change that. The first step is to revitalize the Facebook fan page and Twitter account to add social [...]

Categories: ghacks

Creepy is a free program for Windows and Linux that can be used to track Twitter and Flickr users. Track how? Via the geolocation feature that both services make use of. All you need to do is to enter the Flickr or Twitter username in the application and wait until the first longitude and latitude [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Some amazing charts have been released today by Digital Surgeons showing the demographic breakdown of who actually uses the social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.  It reveals some extremely interesting data.  This includes the fact that of Facebook’s 500 Million users, a massive 41% log in every single day and that 12%, that’s 60 Million people update [...]

Categories: The Web

One of the best things about the Internet and social networks these days is that it makes it easy and simple to identify trends and capture the mood of entire nations.  With another Christmas spent in a period of economic uncertainty that’s what social media agency Yomego did to find out what it is we [...]

Categories: The Web

Two interesting stories about Microsoft and the world’s most popular social networks have emerged and been reported on NeoWin here and here. In the first story it’s now emerged that after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo! he then also turned down a whopping $15 billion buyout offer [...]

Categories: Facebook, Microsoft

If you are an active Twitter user you know that there are hundreds of scripts and add-ons to improve the popular online messaging service. From expanding shortened urls over inline viewers for media to interface changes, if you search long enough you are likely going to find exactly what you want Twitter to look like [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Occasionally a really good news story about social networking comes along.  Today NeoWin is reporting the story of a 7 year-old Chicago girl who, as an avid Star Wars fan, took a Star Wars drinks bottle to school but was bullied after classmates told her Star Wars wasn’t for girls. Little Katie said about the [...]

Categories: Misc

Twitter is offering RSS feed links on public profile pages and the user’s own profile. The problem with user profile feeds is that they cannot be copied and pasted into many RSS readers since they require authentication, which many web based readers and some desktop readers do not support. The solution? Gtweet, a service that [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web