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Facebook is taking a further step towards turning its messages into a full email client. The newly styled Facebook Messages include easier ways to attach photos and files etc, and keyboard shortcuts which allow the user to move around more efficiently. The new version of Messages is being rolled out to all users. Facebook’s new …

Using and understanding node.js can be a daunting prospect for beginner developers and event-driven programming can make you want to run for the hills but here we will try to go over some of the basics of node.js to get you started and to let you know why it is a good choice of technology. …

Twitter was the most popular social network for discussing the Olympics Opening Ceremony, with 97 per cent of all online conversations occurring on the microblogging site, according to new research carried out. Twitter, YouTube and Facebook were monitored during the opening ceremony in order to establish which was the most popular site for discussing the …

Stumbleupon has recently been continuing to roll out minor changes to the site. In the last few days, the social networking site added search capabilities to segments of the site, like user search to find your friends in Stumbleupon. Stumbleupon has now made another interesting addition. The social network has added a new feature that …

Instagram, the photo-sharing program and social network founded in 2010, played a big part at the Olympic 2012 summer games. Although London officials attempted to stop people taking photos, it was reported that spectators, reporters and athletes tagged in excess of 64,000 photos from Olympic venues on the photo-sharing site. Due to copyright reasons, London’s event …

Every developer or designer has a set of code snippets, hacks or syntaxes that are etched into their memories with others that we have to look up each time we use them, depending on how many times we use them or how important we feel they are. Below is a list of 10 CSS rules …

We have been aware of the benefits of social media for a long time now. A survey of 2100 organisations that was recently carried out revealed that 79% of those surveyed are using social media channels currently. In the same survey the organisations revealed what they thought of as social media benefits for businesses. Here …

Tablet computing has been a surprise revolution, as back in 2010 when the iPad was introduced, many people were skeptical. However tablet sales have now exploded and the field is very competitive. Your business should pay a great deal of attention to table users, as there are a reported 56 million of them in the …

If you want to build your Twitter following and increase your Twitter effectiveness, you must attract followers who are interested in the content you tweet, and who will then share it with their followers. Findings have revealed that a major Twitter marketing challenge is that one out of every four Twitter users has no followers. …

In June of this year, Twitter reached the 500 million user mark. 140 million of those users are in the U.S., with Brazil coming in second with just over 40 million Twitter users. Not all users are active, however. In addition, one challenge in reporting Twitter users is that spam accounts are easily and regularly …