June 29th, 2011
You can’t fault their tenacity. Or their ambition. Because it’s becoming clear that Google’s going to keep coming up with new social media products until one of them sticks, finally, like well-cooked spaghetti to a virtual wall. The search giant’s latest foray into the world of social is Google+, which is not to be confused [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Now I have no definite statistics on this but we must surely be getting to the point where there are more virtual than actual farmers in the world? In excess of 60 million people play FarmVille and, according to the developers Zynga, players receive more than 500,000 gifts in the game each day. Do you [...]
October 18th, 2010
When a company holds personal information on 500 million of us, is it too much to expect them to keep it secure? The latest security breach to hit uber-social network Facebook involves the games that many people like to fill their social time with – Farmville, Frontierville and the like – and the advertising networks [...]
October 13th, 2010
Everybody’s “favourite” social network promised it last week and, apparently, it’s beginning to role out for users this week: the ability to download ALL your information from Facebook. Every photo. Every video. Every wall post, email, event and piece of profile information. In one zip file. At the click of a button. The only limitation, [...]