Tag: social
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Hatch App – Cloud Gaming For Free
Hatch app is now released for trial in U.K. and welcome to cloud gaming! What is Hatch though? Hatch is a mobile cloud gaming platform that has fully integrated social features. It also has over 100 mobile games to play instantly, all you need do is set up an account, oh, and its free! Hatch […]
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4Chan Founder Moot Moves To Google
Time flies when you’re having fun. Or at least it has for Christopher Poole, the founder of one of the most storied and controversial websites of the golden age of the internet. The image and message board 4chan is just about the most notorious internet haven, where pretty much all of those dank memes we […]
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Pioneering Social Site Friends Reunited Set to Close
One of the internet’s pioneer social sites, Friends Reunited, is set to close in the next month after fifteen years of service. Four years before Facebook became the place to be, and even a couple years before Myspace, Friends Reunited was launched in the year 2000, offering a free-to-join social experience with which old school […]
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Miitomo – Nintendo’s First Smartphone Game Announced
Nintendo and mobile developer DeNA’s first smartphone app has been announced as a ‘free-to-start’ social game called Miitomo. As the title suggests, Miitomo will be based around Mii avatars and will allow Nintendo players to engage in simulated conversations between their Miis and other Miis across the Nintendo Network via their smartphones. Players will have […]
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Send Magical Moments to Friends with Disney Gif on Android
Disney is offering a charming way for Android using social networkers to express themselves through the format of animated gif with memorable moments from a number of Walt’s classics as well as some modern favourites to share! Disney Gif has now been added to the Google Play Store after a successful run on Apple iOS […]
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Social Media Victory as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Results Revealed One Year On
Remember about a year ago when your Facebook news feed was filled with videos of mates randomly dumping buckets of ice water over their heads for no specific reason and then telling you that you should do it too? The meaning may have become a little lost but there actually was a reason to this madness. […]
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Minds.com – The Facebook Rivalling, Encrypted Social Network, Backed By Anonymous
So, the big question is – Has Facebook met its match? Last week a new social media platform was launched which incorporates more transparency, security and privacy then any of the other social media giants. The platform is back by the ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous; it encrypts all messages thus shielding the user’s data from governments […]
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Is Facebook An Online Echo Chamber?
Politically speaking the internet is now one of the major battlegrounds in the ongoing conflict of ideologies. Social media erupted into election fever recently, as well as the infamous backlash that followed the results. However, some have said that certain topics, which are apparently important, are often absent from news feeds. Facebook has been blamed […]
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33% Of US Teens Are On Google+
A study over in the US has shown that increasing amount of teenagers are heading over to underdog social network Google+. However, youth figures from the US still reflected what we already know – youngsters in one of the world’s biggest social media using areas still prefer Facebook. Other social networks such as Instagram and […]
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Putin Bans Russian Putin Memes
In not-soviet-anymore Russia… this just happened. Anyway, Vladimir Putin is not known for his sense of humor, so a lot of the good people from the internet make sure to remedy the problem by making funny memes out of him. Everyone has a good chuckle before going back to their daily lives. However, Putin, ever the […]
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Twitter Adds Feature Explaining Hashtags
Twitter hashtags can get pretty obscure – the text limit and acronyms often leave users confused as just to what the topic is about. Often a quick Google search is in order, but sometimes you want to hear what the company itself has to say about a particular hashtag. Twitter’s now defunct Discover tab previously […]
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Google Granted Patent for Spoiler Blocker
One of the greatest annoyances of the social networking age is the dreaded Spoiler. Time after time a casual browse on Facebook or Instagram has ruined top telly like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, blowing the cover of secrecy surrounding a massive plot twist or character demise when some smug b*****d in the […]