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Facebook announced today that it’s purchasing Hot Potato, a special kind of check-in service. While other similar services only allow users to list actual physical locations for which they are checking into (say, for instance, a restaurant they are visiting), Hot Potato takes it a few steps further. Those registered with Hot Potato are allowed [...]
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What’s the first social networking site that pops into your head? Think fast. Chances are pretty good that it’s Facebook. Facebook has become the “king” of social networking sites. Boasting over 500 million registered users, Facebook has become the social networking “place to be.” People use it to reconnect with old classmates; while companies use it [...]
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Taking everyone by surprise, security vendor McAfee announced that it has been purchased by Intel, in a move that costs $7.67 billion dollars and will surely leave an impression on the security network industry. McAfee has long been known as one of the security network giants, and with this acquisition by Intel, many are questioning [...]
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iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users, rejoice! Accessing Facebook via the Apple iOS operating system just got a whole lot easier with the launch of a new software development kit. Apple users have traditionally struggled to go social on via their mobile devices. Facebook addresses this issue with two new main features. One is [...]
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A few months ago, Swipely was available by invitation-only. All that changed today, as Swipely has made its membership available to the general public. What is Swipely? To put it simply, Swipely is a service that allows members to share purchases by either allowing the service to grab purchase info from email receipts or [...]
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