Zynga, creators of the popular/ annoying (depending on your perspective) series of Facebook games such as Farmville, Cityville and Mafia Wars, have completed their eighth purchase in seven months by buying the Flock browser.
Flock, “The Social Browser”, was originally built on the Firefox architecture but the latest version has utilised Google Chrome as its base and incorporates Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, sharing of links and the ability to write blog posts directly from the sidebar. It can be considered a direct precursor to the much-hyped Rockmelt browser released late last year.
Foursquare, the leading geolocation-based social networking game was the subject of much ire yesterday with its user base after a server issue had led to it being unavailable for over nine hours.
Although the service is back online now, there has been no official word on what the cause of the issue was or how it was resolved. The service has reached widespread adoption in the US and is often used to arrange social gatherings and is being leveraged by businesses offering discounts and such forth for regular visitors, but hasn’t quite reached the same level of usage in the UK just yet.
There’s Probably No Need To Worry About The Ubiquitous Search Engine Going Anywhere For The Foreseeable Future – After All, People Don’t ’search’ These Days, They ‘Google’ When They Want To Find Something. However, Following On From Yesterday’s Announcement That They Were Pulling The Plug On Wave, It’s Possible To Think That The Steps They Have Taken Into Leading The Cloud-based Medium Could Be A Mistake.
If all the years of hammering the importance of internet security home have taught us anything, it’s that people simply never learn.
That’s probably a slightly harsh assessment – after all, there are new users taking to the internet every day, from youngsters to grandparents – but it can still be a little surprising to see people falling for very similar scams on Facebook over and over again. Today, a new wave of the “Shocking Video” style links is doing the rounds on the popular social networking site and despite the similarity to previous scams, people are still clicking the links.
The good news is that Apple have noted the complaints about the loss of signal on the iPhone 4 and will be issuing a software fix in a couple of weeks. The bad news is that Steve Jobs believes that the loss of reception isn’t the problem – the iPhone is actually displaying more signal bars than it should be in the first place.
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