Tagged ‘Facebook’

Crysis developer Crytek has liftedthe lid on Gface, the OnLive-meets-Facebook gaming social network that could genuinely transform multiplayer gaming. Why’s it so special? And what does it actually do? Read on to find out. Read more

Today, Facebook has launched over 60 new apps that are designed to bombard your shiny new Timeline with a constant jotting of your daily activities. It wants you to catalogue literally everything you do in life, ever, and give everything a star rating or a quantifiable digit.

But… Well… Why? It strikes me that this spread of incessant, boring information is exactly the sort of disease the social network has always tried to avoid… Read more

wikipedia-blackout

It’s January 18th, the day the web goes dark in response to the SOPA and PIPA bills being proposed in the US. So how has the web reacted? Is it just one voice in the darkness, or a real movement? Read more

How to ruin your life online

The internet is a minefield. Every turn online is a possible pitfall in terms of your reputation and your general way of life. What’s worse is that many of the more friendly and innocuous-seeming services are often the worst; there are multiple ways to ruin yourself on the web. Here are the worst… Read more

Microsoft may be looking to move into the highly profitable social gaming business, having just inked a deal with one of that market’s biggest players. Hold onto your Facebooks… Read more

Morning all. It’s Thursday, meaning you’ve nearly made it through the first week back at work. If you’re sat on a dark, cold train and need some enlightenment, how’s about we take you through the tech news you may have missed? You know the drill… Read more

Your experience with Facebook apps may have typically been ignoring requests to exchange crops or play Bejewelled, but new app Property Place could revolutionise the platform by cutting the estate agents out of the moving process. Read more

Google’s been eating up IBM patents like they’re going out of fashion. The patents number in the thousands and will mostly come to nothing but court fodder, but one in particular stands out thanks to what it could mean for Google+. Read more

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