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Now Facebook videos can share on websites/blogs

Facebook now allows to you easily embed videos on web pages outside Facebook. That means if you come across an interesting video on Facebook, you can easily put it on your blog without having to direct your audience to the


Twitter search now indexes every public Tweet

Twitter has announced that it’s making its entire public tweet archive searchable to everyone. Previously it had only made the archive accessible to select partners. From a blog post by Twitter search infrastructure engineer Yi Zhuang: Twitter’s search engine will


Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App

Facebook is launching a new free mobile app for its popular Groups feature that lets users create and interact with communities on the site, whether they’re based on hobbies, geography or culture. More than 700 million of Facebook’s 1.35 billion


How to remove blue ticks on whatsapp ?

Recently, WhatsApp introduced a new feature which totally destroyed the use of Hiding Last Seen feature. As far as I am concerned People really disliked this “Blue Tick” feature in Whatsapp. However, don’t worry I’ve found the solution on How


Facebook in talks to provide free internet access across Africa

Social media giant Facebook wants to sign a deal with satellite company Avanti, which would supposedly bring free access to the internet over large regions in Africa. This is not the first time that the social network has pushed to


Facebook to launch work-based social network called ‘Facebook at Work’

Facebook is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” to get a foothold in the office that will see the social network of more than 1 billion people compete directly with Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn. The website,


Latest WhatsApp now lets you disable read receipts

WhatsApp introduced a new feature recently that showed two blue checkmarks next to messages when a message was read by recipients. Now the newest version of WhatsApp for Android (version 2.11.44) allows you to disable the new receipts under the


Facebook launches new Places Directory

Facebook has launched a new Places Directory, which allows you to search for the best destinations in cities across the world. Once you have searched for a specific city or town, you can select from restaurants, hotels, bars, cafes, attractions,


Facebook launches video tool to help friends say ‘thanks’

Facebook today announced Say Thanks, an experimental service for sending personalized video cards to your friends. There are a number of different themes to choose from, though it doesn’t sound like customization will extent far beyond choosing that and what


TweetDeck now lets you add multiple photos to your tweets

TweetDeck, a social media dashboard app for managing one or more Twitter accounts, is now allowing users to embed or attach multiple photos in a tweet – a feature that was introduced by Twitter earlier this year. The feature was