Archive for October, 2009

Twitter add trick and treat feature for Halloween

Twitter have added a new Halloween feature, if you Tweet “#trick” or “#treat.” On it’s own with nothing else it will turn your background into a scary image like above and below and all your avatars will turn into skeletons and ghosts. It’s pretty a pretty cool little feature by Twitter. The top trending topics [...]

Facebook helping the unpopular people out

So techcrunch wrote a good post about this and surprisingly enough I was just thinking about this today when I was asked to write on a guy from my old schools facebook it said ” make facebook better for this person, write on their wall”. So what is it? Well basically in the suggestions box [...]

Google Creates Fading Homepage

Google is testing a homepage design that only shows the logo and search box. When you move the mouse, everything else fades in. The buttons are missing. Below is a video from techcrunch of the testing of the new homepage. What do you think? Have you got too use it yet? document.getElementById(“post-685-blankimage”).onload();

“fly advertisments” Attach banner ads to real flies?

Ok this video was found online. I saw it posted on mashable but my god it is weird. A german compnay attaches their physical banner advertisments to real FLIES! It takes flying advertisments too a new level. But it seems to work. I’ll let you decide your own view on this one.. document.getElementById(“post-681-blankimage”).onload();

“Bing Jingle” Microsoft subjecting kids to its horrid sound

Jonathan Mann is the creator of the “Big Jingle” which was selected by Microsoft to represent Bing. But now Microsoft have subjected innocent children to the bad jingle lol. Check it out below document.getElementById(“post-676-blankimage”).onload();

Facebook awarded $711.2 million in anti-spam case

Facebook have been rewarded $711.2 million in damges relating to an anti -spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace. Wallace did not show up at the hearing on September 18th, 2009, nor did he oppose the motion. This is according to a filling on Thursday in San Jose, California federal court. Facebook had filed the [...]

Tweet Adder the best Twitter tool I have found

So I started using a great program that was recommended to me by a user on Twitter. It’s called Tweetadder. I’m not one for using twitter programs but this one I have to admit is good. This tool allow you to follow others , by keyword, user, a users followers and by who a user [...]

Twitter releases new “Lists” feature

Twitter has began rolling out its new “lists” feature which they announced that they were working on over one month ago. Twitter began with a beta mode but has now began adding it to all twitter profiles. According to an employee within Twitter 25% of all users have lists and more and more are being [...]