News comes today of Facebook and their plans to hop on the geo location bandwagon.
Recently, there has been lots of hype surrounding sites like Foursquare. So in a predictable move, Facebook has decided to add a similar service to their site.
After concerns over user safety and even insurance companies wagging …

This has been one of those weeks at HQ.
Between all sorts of things IRL and the web, I’ve had very little time to sit down and post things. And wouldn’t you know that our other site writers are busy too.
So most of my linking and news has been via twitter …

This week, Facebook is buzzing with the new trend of Doppelgangers.
Basically you change your profile picture to a celebrity you look like.
Now, not only is it showing us which of our friends are utterly delusional, it’s also illegal and breaches Facebook terms and conditions. according to The Download Squad.
It has …

A young Irish girl who moved to America with her family committed suicide following a campaign of bullying, both online and offline.
Phoebe Prince moved from County Clare to Massachusetts last year.
Phoebe was targeted by the “popular girls” at her new school, through text messages,email and via Facebook.
Even after she had …

You may have seen some of the recent update statuses lately and noticed many following a trend.
Last week we had females posting colours. Then young males posting numbers. Then the females started updating their statuses with positions (positions of their favoured hair style, don’t get so excited.)
Tonight it appears to …

Two days ago LA Times announced how Facebook was battling its enemy Web 2.0 Suicide Machine.
For those of you (like me until today) who don’t know what the hell suicidemachine.org is, here’s a short cheesy video describing the service :
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web 2.0 suicide machine promotion from moddr_ on Vimeo.
SuicideMachine is …

Merry Twitmas!

This coming Friday Twitter addict Stephen Fry is holding an xmas bash online.
The event will stream here.
Follow @stephenfry for more updates.
Upcoming Harry Potter sex scene? Bleurgh!!!

Director David Yates is to create a more mature version of J.K Rowlings hit book for the 2010 movie Harry Potter and the …

The following Facebook story is actually two stories that broke yesterday and today.

Story One- Facebook Privacy Settings Push

Over on RRW, they have the story on Facebook pushing its members to be more open and visible on the site.
Of course Facebook has said the new settings in your privacy tab are …

Nerin moved house lately, sorry for the lack of updates.
Good news though, Mr.Fonnen lives here too, so hes actually got some content done.
In other announcements, im very sorry to hear about the loss of a contributors family member and i hope everything is/turns out ok with them.
 
Now, less personal, …

Yaaawwn. I’ve been very tired and suffering with some wild boar flu lately.
 
Facebook Buys FriendFeed…Whats That About?

Yes, Facebook has dug into its pockets and purchased the site FriendFeed. Developed by two very clever chaps (early Google employees,invented Google Maps and Gmail) the site is a very public cousin …