Category: Social Networking

Keep Track of Your Likes on Facebook

Here’s another quick tip for those people finding pages appearing in their Facebook feeds with updates whilst having no recollection of liking them in the first place. Periodically pruning your “likes” can be beneficial in reducing the noise in your news stream whilst giving you an opportunity to review what you like as time progresses. …

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Panasonic Live @ IFA

Another quick one for tonight. A lot of electronics vendors are at IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) for the next few days to show off their wares and latest advancements in their product lineups. Panasonic had a Q&A this evening with one of their product experts live from the floor of the IFA which worked incredibly …

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The Perils of Pulling Out Your Smartphone Battery

Just a quick one tonight. If you have a smartphone with a removable battery (like an Android phone or a Windows Phone) you should take particular care to avoid accidentally or intentionally removing the battery while the device is powered up. Smartphones are essentially small computers with file systems contained within their internal storage. Pulling …

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Disable Social Advertising on LinkedIn

LinkedIn - Manage Social Advertising Option

This might have gone under the radar for many people who use LinkedIn in terms of being opted in for “social advertising” on its service. In a nuthshell, your photo and name may be used in ads shown to other members of LinkedIn in relevance to companies and services when you make recommendations or follow …

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Ignorance Would Be Bliss on Google+

Sometimes ignorance is bliss or silence is golden depending which way you look at it. Last week at work I was discussing Google+ with someone who had noted that there was a distinct lack of ability to add someone to your circles but to completely suppress their content from showing up in your stream. You …

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta 2 – First Impressions

Windows Phone 7 Mango Beta 2 - Customised Ringtones

Well, I have had about 24 hours with Mango Beta 2 for Windows Phone 7 and wanted to share with you some of my first impressions of this forthcoming update for this mobile platform. While it’s speculated for a September release, I could easily see this being delayed to October or later by the carrier …

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Hide Your Google Plus Profile From Search Engines

Changing Search Visibility Setting in Google Plus

As more and more people are trying out Google Plus a good number of them will be conscious of the default setting to make it visible in results generated by the various search engines. If you are one of those people, this is how you can change the search visibility of your profile to suit. …

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Indirect Twitter Integration in Mango Update for Windows Phone

Test Tweet from the Official Windows Phone 7 Twitter Account

One of the great features of Windows Phone 7 is its ability to integrate with social networking services such as Facebook directly through the phone and other services such as YouTube, WordPress LinkedIn through your Windows Live account to your Windows Phone. Of course, the most glaring omission at the moment is Twitter. Sure, you …

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Why an Official Facebook App for iPad is Nearly Useless

Over the last few days there have been murmurs of an official Facebook app for the iPad which has been noticeably absent given high expectations when the iPad was launched last year. As time wore on, people came to accept that an app was just a fairytale and that using the full website in Safari …

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Google “Plus One” – A Human Factor in Search?

In what looks like a potential emulation of the concept of “liking” something on Facebook, Google quietly rolled the ability to “+1” (or “plus one”) a piece of content you might come across on the internet in the last few months. Furthermore, it also allows your searches to be enriched (or potentially polluted depending how …

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