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Wednesday, 25th January 2012

Anonymous Claims Responsibility For Facebook Outage

Noticed some Facebook downtime? We have. It's intermittent, but Facebook has some trouble with uptime right now, and a Twitter account representing Anonymous claims responsibility (somewhat obliquely, in order to troll tech bloggers). In some kind of conflation of Facebook with the government, a puppet representing Anonymous threatened Facebook…

Social Jon Mitchell comments

How Salesforce Chatter Connect Ate the Social Network

One thing you can plainly say about Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: You know where he stands, and he's never on the fence. Over the past two years, one of Benioff's key themes at conferences and speeches is how software design, as part of the inevitable journey of all software to the cloud, is embracing the concepts of social networking…

Scott M. Fulton comments

Will Free Mobile Wikipedia Change Africa?

Many of us take cheap high-speed Internet access for granted. I think nothing of downloading an MP3 album from Amazon MP3 while streaming a movie from Netflix on the Roku and browsing the Web on a powerful computer. That's not a luxury that's available to everyone, and in some parts of the world data charges prove prohibitive for going online for…

Enterprise Joe Brockmeier comments

Big Answer: Social Network Chats

When I'm on Facebook and a chat pops up, I typically curse and close the browser immediately or quickly attempt to find the "invisible" setting. It's not that I don't like my friends, if I am on the computer I am probably working. If I want to socialize I may send out a Tweet or a text message, which they can respond to at their leisure. I…

Robyn Tippins comments

Top 5 Non-Creepy FB Apps

When Facebook announced 60 new social sharing apps, I wrote about two that weren't joining the party. And now I'm trying to tell you about the top 5 social apps on Facebook? I know what you're thinking. But as much as we (and I) have issues with Facebook's feelings about privacy and data, sharing intrinsically makes us feel connected. Here are…

Social Alicia Eler comments

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