Tag: Social networking

Facebook on iPhone: sexy phone's second "killer app"

iphone_facebook.gifSome commentators are calling Facebook for iPhone its second killer application. Pete Cashmore at Mashable is certainly in love with it. Let’s face it – if you like Facebook and you like the iPhone, then this is a kick-ass application to get hold of.

Even if you don’t have an iPhone, you can experience what it looks like by visiting iphone.facebook.com. Full of scrolling goodness, it gives clear and easy access to all of the main features you’re likely to want to use on the move.

Andy Merrett iPhone

Opinion: Facebook numpties deserve to be defrauded!

Jon_small_new.jpgJonathan Weinberg writes…

Two days into the week and TWO Facebook security threats appear. The first in The Guardian on Monday warned secret code from FB’s inner-workings had been published on the internet prompting warnings of a security risk for users. Boring! Code, schmode, it’s far too technical.

But then this piece of wonder appeared today in The Times and it’s far more worrying, not least because everyone I know does it – and also because it involves a frog!

Freddi Staur is a cute green frog who has stolen email addresses and mobile phone numbers from users on the social network website – in an experiment to show how easily people give out their personal information to strangers…

Jonathan Weinberg Columns & Opinion, Facebook Applications, Internet, Web 2.0, Websites, Weirdness

Opinion: I Facebook therefore I am… but when did it get so complicated?

andy-merrett.jpgAndy Merrett writes…

Oh no, not another opinion piece about Facebook?

Yes, Facebook is now almost as ubiquitously talked about in non-geek circles as the iPhone or the iPod, or Potter’s latest escapades.

Irritating isn’t it?

Oh sure, Facebook is now the fastest growing social network for over-25s in the UK (much to the disgust of their kids, I imagine), but when did it start getting complicated?

No, the system’s not technically difficult to use – that’s the whole point and is why you shouldn’t really be taken aback when your gran adds you as a friend, however wrong that might feel socially.

What’s more complicated is managing all these pesky applications.

Andy Merrett Columns & Opinion, Web 2.0

TrustedPlaces social networking site links up with Facebook

trusted_places.gifThe UK-based social networking site TrustedPlaces, which relaunched in February, has now announced new features, and collaboration with Facebook.

Thanks to Facebook opening itself up to application developers, its members can now access TrustedPlaces and seamlessly ‘roam’ its content, and share relationships across the two communities.

New features at the TrustedPlaces include the ability for members to upload video reviews of their favourite places. They are also encouraging members who have met online to meet in the real world.

Andy Merrett Web 2.0

2007 Tech Trends No. 6: Social networking goes mobile

myspace-on-voda.jpgTalking about mobile social networking as a new trend is a bit silly, really. Billions of people socially network on their phones already by, er, calling and texting each other.

But the big trend is for online social networking sites to ramp up their mobile features, via dedicated applications or mobile internet sites. MySpace, Facebook and Bebo have all announced mobile strategies earlier this year, which’ll play out in the next six months. Meanwhile, there’s a host of dedicated mobile social networking startups looking to take them on.

Stuart Dredge Mobile phones