About three years ago Ars Technica has pointed out the Facebook flaw where the photos deleted by its users still exist in the cloud, and accessible via direct links after months or even years. And still there are no improvements done by Facebook to resolve the issue. According to Facebook’s spokesman: “Facebooks’s older systems for storing uploaded content did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site, whereas company is working for new systems which will make the deletion process quicker.” To [...]

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Yahoo has launched a dedicated search portal for Andriod and iOS apps, where user can search for applications by category, mobile platform, ratings, reviews, price and more. You can visit Yahoo Apps Search page for details.

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With the collaboration of a design firm Definition6, Facebook launched TimelineMovieMaker web application which can create a movie of all stuff under TimeLine for a Facebook user by adding special effects and music. Facebook TimeLine feature was introduced by the end of last year, which is a visual representation of entire life events of a user shared over Facebook. To create your Facebook TimeLine movie, visit timelinemoviemaker page, click on “Make Your Movie” button and give access to your Facebook account and let it complete rest of the process which may take few minutes.So, give a [...]

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In June 2011, George Hotz (GeoHot) was hired by Facebook after getting sued by Sony for hacking into Playstation 3. Basically, GeoHot was popular for its unlock and jailbreaking tools for iPhone users, and now when he is quitting from Facebook, it seems he will join back jailbreak community and hope so some other jailbreak tools would be on his credit in near future. GeoHot’s previous developed jailbreak tools are Blackra1n, Purplera1n, Limera1n and BlackSn0w unlock tool.

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Reuters, reported that YouTube is getting approximately 4 billion video hits per day, as the figure has changed with an increase of 25% since May, 2011. Google relates the increase of Youtube video viewership to the increase of smart mobile devices. Furthermore, YouTube owner Google also announced some other figures, that about 60 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube each minute, whereas this figure was 48 hours of video upload every minute in May, 2011.

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Facebook engineer Blake Ross has led the creation a web tool which allows users to by-pass Google’s controversial Search Plus Your World feature. The ‘focus on the user’ project which is compatible with Chrome, IE and Firefox replaces the Google+ inspired results with more prominent results from the social web. The fix is made possible by a piece of code, or bookmarklet, called “don’t be evil” written by Ross and a team of engineers over the weekend. Now, by dragging the bookmarklet into your bookmarks bar, you can update the Google+ social search results with [...]

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According to the Nielsen research group’s provided data for January-October 2011, Google, Facebook and YouTube are the most visited web sites under three respective categories of over all web brands, social networks&blogs and video brand. Top 10 Web Brands in 2011Google Facebook Yahoo! MSN/WindowsLive/Bing YouTube Microsoft AOL Media Network Wikipedia Apple Ask Search NetworkTop 10 Social Networks & BlogsFacebook Blogger Twitter WordPress Myspace.com LinkedIn Tumblr Google+ Yahoo! Pulse Six Apart TypePadTop 10 Online Destinations for VideoYouTube VEVO Facebook Yahoo! MSN/WindowsLive/Bing AOL [...]

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Facebook officially took the “beta” label off its much-publicized Timeline this evening, but it’s rolling out the new feature gradually. New Zealand is currently the only country to get Timeline, the company said in a blog postthis evening. Other regions will get it in the “near future.” Facebook first unveiled Timeline in early September, and quickly provided the means for developers and curious users to enable the feature. A more general release was planned for later that month, but it never came, ostensibly to address technical issues and privacy concerns having to do with the software. Timeline, [...]

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Here’s a situation: you create a Facebook account. You fall in love with said account. You’re on it all day, every single day. And then, your computer explodes. You go to login on a new machine, and you realize that your minty fresh browser has no recollection of your Facebook password. At this point, you’re probably pondering the point of taking another breath. Evidently, Facebook understands your dilemma, and in the coming weeks, it’ll be testing out a new password recovery system for those who can’t / won’t take advantage of the existing methods. Christened [...]

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Scientists have found a direct link between the number of “friends” a person has on Facebook and the size of certain brain regions, raising the possibility that using online social networks might change our brains. The four brain areas involved are known to play a role in memory, emotional responses and social interactions. So far, however, it is not possible to say whether having more Facebook connections makes particular parts of the brain larger or whether some people are simply pre-disposed, or “hard-wired,” to have more friends. “The exciting question now is [...]

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