Did any of your Facebook friends share the news about Facebook closing down on March 15th, 2011? The rumor originated from an article published on Weekly World News two days ago, claiming that Mark Zuckerberg decides to shut down Facebook due to stress. Summary of the news article: Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook will be [...]

Quora is a relatively new Q&A service that had been covered extensively on top tech blogs and news site, most notably TechCrunch. I have just got an account yesterday and took a quick tour. What sets it apart from more established Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and Mahalo? The community. People on Quora are mostly [...]

How do you identify spam links received on instant messengers? One of the easiest way is to identify the domain. If your friend is sharing random links with unknown domain, the fancy ones especially, you should be very wary (pun). Some phishing sites might also use domain similar to popular social networking sites, faceb0ok.com for [...]

Remember the good old days of Friendster or MySpace, where friends can leave you a testimonial on your profile page? After everyone migrated to Facebook, no one seems to be doing that anymore.

Trunk.ly was just launched less than a week ago, very timely considering the havoc on Delicious thanks to Yahoo. No, it’s not a Delicious clone. Instead, it indexes links that you have shared on your Twitter and Facebook account, and make them searchable. Like Twitter, you can follow someone on Trunk.ly and view their shared [...]

TweetDeck’s CEO claims that Chrome TweetDeck, available in Google’s newly launched Chrome Web Store is “definitely our best version of a desktop TweetDeck so far“. While I have to agree it is quite decent, the Chrome version of TweetDeck is definitely not ready to completely replace its desktop version.