Tag: social networking

Instagram announce Instagram Direct

Instagram is rather popular these days, now available on most platforms (even including Windows Phone). It’s a photo sharing service that allows you to post pictures and images and your followers can see them, but what if you have a photo you only want to share with one …

Google+ for Android gets an update

Google+ is slowly becoming my social network of choice, Twitter is getting bogged down by API restrictions and Facebook is just….. Well… Let’s just leave it there. Last night Google pushed out an update which added a range of new features. The update has also tweaked a few …

Help beta test Facebook for Android

Facebook have decided they want some user feedback, which is nice of them. They obviously don’t want a repeat performance of Facebook Home with future updates of the standard Facebook app. The good thing is that if you want to install the beta version of the Facebook Android …

Google+ Android app updated. Now includes video chat.

In the Night Google+ updated their Android app. The update fixes a few bugs and also allows you to start a video hangout from within the messenger app on your Android device. Ideal if you are struggling to get your point across using text. This feature will make …

Google Buzz Buzzes off

Hey, come close. Remember when we all fell over ourselves to get Google Buzz invites? Remember when we all thought it would knock Facebook to one side? Yeah…. that didn’t happen.. In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on …

Google+ now available on iPad/iPod Touch

Google have now made their Google+ available for all the iPad and iPod Touch users who were left out  when the app originally launched on iPhone last month. There aren’t any discernible differences between the new version and the previous iPhone only one so it’s unclear why the …