A new app name pplkpr (pronounced ‘people keeper’) can quantify users’ friendships and tell you which friends cause you the most anxiety, and which make you happy. The ...
January 29, 2015 at 10:58 am by Ashley Allen
Any Facebook user scrolling through their news feed over the last week have likely seen a slew of posts entitled “It’s been a great year! Thanks for being a part of ...
December 28, 2014 at 7:55 am by Ashley Allen
Facebook is trialling a new sales system, offering users the ability to officially sell goods on the social media site. The feature is only available to a handful of members, ...
December 19, 2014 at 1:00 am by Ashley Allen
Surely this is the biggest tech story of the year – soon you’ll hopefully be able to make GIFs from any video on YouTube with no effort whatsoever. Well obviously ...
December 13, 2014 at 4:43 am by Ryan Simmons
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is considering adding a “Dislike” button for members to utilize when interacting with posted content. Here is what Zuckerberg ...
December 12, 2014 at 4:58 pm by Michael Hatamoto
Alanah Pearce, an Australian gaming reviewer on the radio and on YouTube, has come up with a novel method of getting back at her online trolls and harassers. In a Guardian ...
November 29, 2014 at 5:08 pm by Ryan Simmons
The terms and conditions on social media websites should be radically simplified, the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has advocated, in a report released on ...
November 28, 2014 at 5:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Phones in classrooms have been the bane of teachers for over a decade, further exacerbated by the advent of smartphones and social media, but a school in Wisconsin has taken a ...
November 12, 2014 at 7:16 am by Ashley Allen
Facebook has taken the unusual move of supporting Tor, the anonymising “dark web” service. The social networking site was already accessible via Tor, ...
November 10, 2014 at 1:56 pm by Ryan Simmons
Redditmade, a new crowd funding website from Reddit is finally here! Taking inspiration from sites like Kickstarter, the new service was designed primarily to give support to ...
October 30, 2014 at 1:38 pm by Peter Donnell
Twitter has said that it will remove images and videos of dead people as long as immediate family members request it. Any photos “from when critical injury occurs to the ...
August 21, 2014 at 12:47 am by Dave Alcock
Microsoft have just launched the first dedicated console app for Reddit. ReddX will allow Xbox One owners to browse the ever-popular social media sharing site from their ...
August 19, 2014 at 11:54 am by Peter Donnell
Some of the biggest names in social media have joined forces to form The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (Derp). Somehow I doubt that acronym is a coincidence. Derp ...
August 19, 2014 at 9:54 am by Peter Donnell
Activist and law student, Max Schrems, has launched an international class action suit against Facebook Ireland for not being in accordance with European data protection law. ...
August 2, 2014 at 5:11 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Millions of users have noticed today that around 12 pm Eastern Time, the social media giant, Facebook, went down for about 30 minutes. This is not the first time the website ...
August 1, 2014 at 7:49 pm by Gabriel Roşu
