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
More parents and older people are getting in on the Facebook action (swelling the ranks to 750m people), so it’d be a shame if they couldn’t access it on the move. Well help is at hand in the shape of the new Facebook for Every Phone app: it does pretty much what it says on the tin, letting you access all the standard Facebook features from your ageing handset.
To find out more, as well as how to get free data for 90 days using it, click through.
It’s nearly time to chow down on some well-earned lunch, but before you do, check out what’s happened today in the world of tech. We’ve got it all right here, in our news round-up.
The former vanguard of social networking has been sold for just $35m, a fraction of its once valued $12bn, and low even compared to when News Corporation bought it out for $580m six years ago.
So who’s bought it? Where does Justin Timberlake fit into all this? And what can you expect for its future? Read on for more.
Twitter has angered developers with a post to it’s development mailing list which warns them off creating apps that duplicate the official Twitter client? Why have Twitter bosses said no more clones? Find out after the jump.
Microsoft’s Kin phones were axed before we could get a look in the UK, now a source within Microsoft has revealed just how poor the sales of the social mobiles really were.
