Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
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New Facebook Timeline Profiles Begin Life In New Zealand
You may need an actual time machine to go back far enough to remember when Facebook promised its innovative Timeline feature which would replace our standard plain social profiles to provide our friends (and potential stalkers) with a unique look into our history. It’s been a long time since September’s announcement and unless you cheated…
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Official Facebook for iPad App Finally Released
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After what has seemed like an age, the number one social network Facebook has finally announced that the official app for the Apple iPad is here and ready to be downloaded. In an official statement, the company announced that Facebook would be coming to the iPad and iPad 2 as a part of a new…
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Google+ reaches 50-million and Facebook’s counter-strikes
Better late than never! So, you’ve decided to join us on Google+ after the full launch just a week ago – and now the new kid on the social block has grown to 50-million users since going live publically, which shows a 1269% increase in traffic to the buddy site since it left its incubation…
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Facebook Timeline Unveiled – Completely Redesigned Profile Page Layout
As well as announcing Music integration with Spotify, Facebook announced a brand new Profile Page layout called ‘Timeline’ today at their f8 event. Creator of Facebook Mark “The Zuck” Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce Timeline and give us an idea of what it’s about. The idea of ‘Timeline’ is to show everything you’ve…
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Facebook music with Spotify coming this afternoon?
There are sound-waves of speculation emerging from the social web today, ahead of Facebook’s F8 conference in just a few hours time. Many suggesting that one of the major announcements to emerge from the press event will be that Facebook will finally be launching that long-rumoured music platform – and it’ll be powered by none…
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Facebook updated News Feed is bad news – Get your old one back here!
Whoa! What’s going on here?? We checked our Facebooks this morning to find another unexpected new ‘improvement’ to the layout of the social network and this one’s really causing some uproar! You may have noticed when you logged in today that the previously simplistic News Feed with choice of ‘Top News’ or ‘Most Recent’ has…
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Skype aquires GroupMe – Multiperson text-based chat to rival Google+
Skype has just announced its purchase of GroupMe, a mobile group texting service – which adds another social weapon to the arsenal against Google. Working much like the Huddle feature on Google+ for mobiles, GroupMe brings friend together for multiperson conversations using text-based “chatting” allowing easy organisation of get-togethers and keeping everybody involved “in the…
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Facebook purchases digital publisher Push Pop Press
Facebook has snapped up digital book publisher Push Pop Press – turning a new page in the evolution of Zuckerberg‘s Social Network. Push Pop Press is a relative unknown and its big break into the world of online publishing came last year when it made digitally available the book written by Al Gore entitled “Our…
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The Guardian releases “Media 100” 2011 results – The Zuck is up while Ballms bombs!
A few of the Gadget Helpline’s regular namedrops pop up in The Guardian’s annual list of 100 most influential people in UK media, and Mark Zuckerberg – social mogul and founder of Facebook has it topped. Experts in tech, PR and media put together the “Media 100” list, which saw social networking take the top…