• YouTube will delete all of its Videos, as it is shutting down on April 1st [Shocking News]

    Oh no! Another shocking news from Google that the company is planning to shutdown YouTube after successful eight years of service. Google recently announced that it will shutdown Google Reader and now this shocking news was unveiled in a video posted on YouTube. The video was created along with The Onion, which…

  • Twitter is Reducing Tweets with HTTPS URLs To 117 Characters

    Tweeting a URL? Then your tweets just got a bit shorter. Yes, Twitter has announced that starting Wednesday, any tweet with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links. The reason for this reduction is the change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper, which extends the maximum…

  • 11-year-old launches a Kid Social Network, Grom Social

    The Web has been a great place to learn but no doubts, it is an unsafe place too! We always refrain kids from use of Social Networks and yes that is because we have a stronger reason for it. But to beat all these things, here is a Social Network by a…

  • Facebook will be closed for maintenance between Feb 29-31 – Hoax

    Messages have been spreading on Facebook that the social network will be closed between February 29th and February 31st, 2013. May be its true as you won’t be able to log into Facebook (or even Twitter) on February 29th, February 30th or February 31st this year.   Apparently comical as these…

  • The dark side of Facebook Graph Search! [Pictures, Video]

    People may have some peculiar likes, also it doesn’t need to be cracked upon. Facebook looking to make search easy like using simple phrases to explore your connections, has indeed made some Graph Search jokes that  makes a  good way of startling people into checking their privacy settings! It’s has only been…

  • Alicia Keys joins Pinterest and creates a pinboard for each song

    Alicia Keys – the leading diva who sung during the President Barack Obama’s inaugural function and also set to perform at the next month’s Super Bowl, has now joined the social media website Pinterest. Soon she created 21 Pinterest boards in the names of individual songs. “I’ll admit — I’m a…

  • Create a Fake Girl Friend on Facebook for this Valentine’s Day

    Don’t have a girl friend for this valentine’s day? or get your ex-girl friend feel jealous. An unusual service from Brazilian based website called “NamoroFake” lets you hire a Fake girl friend on Facebook for $10. The service offers four plans: Signifier ($10), ex-girl friend ($19), girl-friend ($39) and virtual…

  • Is Facebook Charging its Users $100 To Message Mark Zuckerberg?

    Are you a Facebook user who makes use of the FB message often?! Then you should read on.. Are you one among the 16,338,069 Followers of Mark Zuckerberg? Then we have a good news for you! You could message him free (incase you are wishing to).. If you are not, and want…

  • Microsoft to end the life of Windows Messenger Live in March

    It’s all over for Microsoft’s Windows Messenger Live, as it is approaching the end by the month of March this year. According to the reports from Microsoft, the company has decided to end its instant messaging client to promote Skype – Skype was acquired by Microsoft in October, 2011. The…

  • Facebook will Charge $1 for Sending messages to Users who are not your Friends

    Now it is getting too costlier to be a social media user. Especially Facebook was charging users for promoting their posts and now it will charge you $1 for sending messages to users who are not in your friend’s list. According to the reports from Facebook, the social media has started a…

  • Watch all the popular viral videos of 2012 packed into 4 minutes Clip

    Well, the year 2012 gave plenty of successful viral videos. You can say by this time everyone would have watched the Psy’s Gangnam Style, which was the biggest hit across all the social media websites. Similarly there were endless flow of viral videos flooded in Youtube in 2012. Here’s the collection of…

  • Yahoo acquires OnTheAir – A video chat startup company

    Recently Yahoo! announced that it is discontinuing several messenger features, following this the hot news is that – Yahoo Inc has acquired a five-person video chat company OnTheAir, to boost up Yahoo’s mobile capabilities. OnTheAir is a  start-up firm, launched in March. It allows  users to host video conversations in a “television talk show” setting,…

  • McDonald’s releases TV Commercial With Twitter Hashtag for Pro bowl celebration

    McDonald’s is inviting  users to join the Pro-bowl conversation on Twitter by ad titled McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets Celebration of Dunking – Pro Bowl. For two weeks McDonald’s will drop 20 trips to the Pro Bowl in Hawaii with a package of 20-piece McNuggets. It will also give away surprise prizes like tickets…

  • Are you updating your tweets by SMS? Wait you are vulnerable!

    Anyone could tweet in your name by just knowing your mobile number which is associated with the Twitter account!.And you would know and never will be alerted too! Seems very straight forward isn’t it? A team of security researchers have discovered this security hole. Same was found with sites like Facebook and…

  • Yahoo developer feature (YQL Console) might be exploited to steal user emails and other data

    YQL is similar to SQL (Structured Query Language) and was created by Yahoo. YQL can be used to query, filter and combine data stored in databases.The Yahoo developer website provides access to Web-based console for aiding to execute YQL queries against Yahoo’s own databases. According to an independent Romanian security researcher, Attackers…

  • Tumblr hacked by GNAA – “Dearest Tumblr User” spreading viral ! Quicky remediation: Log off you Tumblr account!

    The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) is an anti-blogging Internet-trolling organization. They have trolled several prominent websites and Internet personalities including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama’s campaign website, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the blogosphere. These hackers have now created a worm to target Tumblr Brony tag, a meeting place for fans of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. So…

  • Pope Benedict XVI joins Twitter officially: First tweet to be expected on December 12

    The head of the Catholic Church at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, has signed Twitter with the handle @pontifex (latin for “pope”). This account has already gathered about 70 thousand followers. And the first tweet of the first papal will be at December 12th to coincide with the festival of…

  • Albania Pirate Group Page taken down from Facebook for posting details of hacked Twitter accounts

    The Albania Pirate Group (APG) was first thrown off the social network for sharing RDP (Windows Remote Desktop) logins, giving hackers unauthorised access to computer systems which compromised banking details. Again now the group attempted to regroup on Facebook – creating a new page and sharing passwords of breached systems. APG had…