Telethons no more: Non-profits around the world are working to raise AIDS awareness via social media.
Silent For A Cause:
The Digital Life Sacrifice campaign, lead by singer Alicia Keys, is raising money for the Keep A Child Alive fund, which provides support to people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. To raise finances, …
Google Me is back in the news yet again. Mashable says that sources tell them that the purported social media site or functionality that is rumored to take on Facebook tell them the product will be pushed back to spring 2011 because of design delays, execution and, most importantly, the point of the whole function.
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has taken the wraps off of Jumo, a social networking site focused on helping people find and support reputable charities. Hughes told the New York Times that he hopes the site will do for charities “what Yelp did for restaurants.”
Eligible charities must be certified as tax-exempt organizations to …
A website developer has discovered a little tweak in Facebook’s code that will allow video chatting functionality.
Tal Ater from Green Any Site was working on his website’s Facebook application, when he noticed a “VideoChat” object in their code, which would allow the inevitable. He delved further and found out it has several …
Facebook is one step closer to trade marking the word, “face.” The very idea would be ridiculous if it wasn’t proof of the company’s rapid escalation within the race for web sovereignty.
More on Techland: MySpace Integrates Facebook
The trademark, which only applies to the word “face” when it’s used for online …
Soon you can be an omnipotent being on Facebook. Pocket God is coming to Facebook courtesy of Frima Studios, a Quebec-based developer. The iOS game had remained on the iTunes App Store Top 100, but now it’s ready to take on the social media realm.
(More on TIME.com: 18 iPhone Games To Keep You Occupied)
The episodic game has you …
It had to come sometime. MySpace has conceded the battle for supreme social network to Facebook, saying that they prefer to focus on “music entertainment content” on Fox Business Network.
(More on TIME.com: The End Is Near: Will MySpace Sink After Departure Of Another CEO?)
“We are no longer competing. MySpace is focused …
You can now log into the social network that nobody uses anymore with your username and password from the social network everyone uses. And with that, MySpace has pretty much given up on trying to be a social network in the interest of serving as a personalized entertainment site instead.
That’s actually pretty smart.
You can now …
Facebook unwrapped its new “Messages” feature earlier this week, and announced that it’ll slowly be rolling out to users over the coming months. Here’s a quick, basic look at the upcoming service that aims to blur the lines between e-mail, instant messaging, and text messaging.
More on Time.com:
Zynga, the company behind wildly popular Facebook games such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, has announced that CityVille will be rolling out “in the coming weeks.”
(More on Techland: Rumor: Zynga Prepping ‘CityVille’ Social Game?)
Zynga is calling CityVille its “most social game to date.” You’ll be able to build your own city …
No, this isn’t the start to a really bad joke. Both Bill Clinton and a pastor based out of New Jersey have put bans on Facebook, though for completely different reasons.
(More on TIME.com: Should Governments Be Able To Censor Facebook?)
Though Clinton might have partnered with the man who created the Internet Al Gore, he’s banning …
This past weekend, Facebook was blocked for a few hours for people in Saudi Arabia trying to get on the social networking site. Whether it was done on purpose by the government, as an anonymous source told AP, or an accident, which is the official statement from the government according to ArabNews.com, will remain a mystery. The …
