Features of the new Facebook profile page redesign include the ability to group your friends into specific groups, such as family members, classmates or team mates. You can also choose to ‘feature’ your friends to help you select those who are closest and most important to you. Also found in the update is a new [...]

Facebook are expected to reveal the @facebook.com e-mail address this Monday in a move that analysts believe will pose a serious threat to Gmail’s present e-mail systems crown. In fact, the belief in this new vehicle as a genuine competitor to Google has led some quarters to dub the new initiative “the Gmail killer”. The [...]

MySpace may have been off of most people’s online radars for a number of years now given the meteoric rise of facebook, Twitter and even recent advents such as Apple’s Ping application, but bosses of the ailing site are hoping a new revamp will return the them to the top of the tree. It seems [...]

Emotional Twitter users may be inadvertently predicting stock market swings according to new research. The research carried out at Indiana University examined more than nine million Tweets which began with the phrase “I feel” for 11 months in 2008. It found the data found in such posts which expressed emotion increase the accuracy of market [...]

Industry giants Microsoft have made the first steps in integrating web search, with social networking. The Microsoft owned ‘Bing’, a search engine ranked most popular behind Google, and Yahoo have begun to offer US based users the opportunity to be view webpage’s, products and other interests that are ‘liked’ by their Facebook friends. The news [...]

Social network integration is the main new update found in the revamp of the BBC iPlayer. Users can now share their favourite programmes with friends via Facebook and Twitter, effectively meaning they’re doing the BBC’s own job by advertising and broadcasting their content to a whole network of potential audience members. The redesigned site also [...]