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Facebook tests new ‘buy’ button for online purchase

Facebook Inc is testing a new “buy” button on its website that will let consumers purchase products that are advertised on its social network. The new service, which Facebook described on Thursday as a test with a “few small and


What Happens in Just ONE Minute on Facebook

As thousands of new social media users log on every week, the numbers relating to the flow of information on Facebook become ever more staggering. This infographic from SumoCoupon illustrates just how much data is generated in a mere 60


How Smart Are Your Tweets?

Time magazine created a pseudo-scientific tool that measures how “smart” your tweets are. It uses a “commonly used reading comprehension survey known as SMOG, or ‘Simple Measure of Gobbledygook’ (gobbledygook being a word of three or more syllables) to assess


Twitter Now Supports Animated GIFs

Twitter has finally announced an awesome change to its social network. Now it supports animated GOF images. This new change is now live on website, Android and iPhone app. Twitter has announced this new update via a tweet containing the


Facebook Chat app for iPad

Facebook’s dedicated chat app, has finally arrived for the iPad. It has already been available for Android, iOS and even Windows Phone smartphones. There is no word on support for Android tablets yet though. Facebook Messenger for iPad can be


Facebook Testing ‘Missed Call’ Ads in India

Facebook has created a new “missed call” product for advertisers in India, marking the first time that the social network has designed a special ad format for a single country. When a mobile phone user clicks on one of the


Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand “emotional contagion” in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive. For one week in 2012, Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place


Facebook may soon launch ‘Sympathize’ button

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button has been one of its biggest successes, but it is not rare to find posts which one may not actually like. In such cases users often write ‘dislike’ in comments just to express their unhappiness about the


Zac Johnson Made $860,538.38 PROFIT in 4 Months!

Zac Johnson have posted in his blog that he made $860538.38 profit in 4 months from his web sites. He posted some screen shot of check and earnings. It was of the year 2005, 2006. Check out his blog at


NBC’s MySpace Clone

NBC Entertainment started new MySpace clone, that will be inagurated on september. http://my.nbc.com/ NBC says – myNBC is gearing up to be your one stop shop for exclusive access to NBC shows and characters. It is not an exact clone