Tumblr has today announced that it is rolling out a new feature called Fan Mail, an interblog messaging service that users of the popular blogging platform can use to communicate...

Read More: Tumblr’s new Fan Mail feature will let you leave messages for other users

A class action lawsuit filed against Facebook over its FriendFinder feature was dismissed yesterday by a California federal judge. In the case of Robyn Cohen, et al. v. Facebook, a group of the network's members alleged that Facebook misappropriated users' names and likenesses to promote its Friend Finder service, which suggests new Facebook friends to a user who chooses to upload his or her email contacts.

The Robyn Cohen case was actually dismissed previously on June 28, 2011, but the plain [...]

Read More: Judge Dismisses Class Action Lawsuit Over Facebook’s Friend Finder Feature

With its SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin already declaring that Google would look to release its new Music Store "soon" and launching "with a twist", new details have emerged suggesting...

Read More: Google’s new Music Store reportedly to feature tight integration with Google+

When Google unveiled its latest mobile developments at the launch event for the Galaxy Nexus and Android 4.0 (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich), fans of Google's open-source mobile operating system were...

Read More: Can Android’s new ‘Face Unlock’ feature be hacked using a photo? Google says no.

While hardware junkies like myself may have spent the past few weeks drooling over the Galaxy Nexus, the onstage demo of Android 4.0 (a.k.a Ice Cream Sandwich) proves that the software powering the device is just as impressive (if not a little moreso).

Our hands-on with the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming shortly, but here's a quick rundown of what Android 4.0 will be bringing to the table come November.

Read More: A Quick Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Rundown

While Facebook's new user sign-up rate may have slowed, the user engagement on the world's largest social networking site continues to grow strongly. A whitepaper report from Efficient Frontier concludes that...

Read More: Facebook user engagement up 31%, ‘Like’ feature is key driver

In a blog post today, location-based app foursquare (yes, intentionally no capital F apparently) announced a new feature specifically for iOS5 called ‘Radar'. A lot of app makers are creating new features that take advantage of all of Apple's new iOS5 functionality, and foursquare was quick out of the gates to announce its own. The update for [...]

Read More: foursquare announces social location feature called ‘Radar’ for iOS5

In a blog post today, location-based app foursquare (yes, intentionally no capital F apparently) announced a new feature specifically for iOS5 called ‘Radar'. A lot of app makers are creating new features...

Read More: foursquare announces social location feature called ‘Radar’ for iOS5

As we noted earlier, Facebook is making a lot of changes since the f8 conference. One change that was sent our way is that the company is discontinuing the "Discussions"...

Read More: Facebook ‘Discussions’ feature on pages being discontinued on October 31st

Timelines Inc., a small venture capital-backed Chicago company that operates the Timelines.com website, has launched a trademark-infringement suit against Facebook on Thursday, claiming that the latter's recently announced Timeline feature could "quite possibly eliminate" its entire business.

Timelines.com is a website that basically allows people to record and share personal or historic events, and contribute descriptions, links, photos and videos related to those events, people, companies, ba [...]

Read More: Timelines.com Sues Facebook, Says Its New Timeline Feature Could “Eliminate” Them

Facebook today announced a revamped profile called the Timeline at its annual F8 conference. The new Timeline takes the place of your profile and provides a realtime stream of everything you’ve done, all...

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In June last year, we reported that Facebook had finally made it possible for any admin on a company or brand's Facebook page to delete the original ‘owner' associated with that particular account. But this has caused some to question whether this is in fact a good idea, given that it opens up a Facebook Fan Page to being hijacked, with the original creator left out in the lurch.As we wrote at the time, there are many reasons why a company or brand may want to change the ‘owner' of F [...]

Read More: Facebook Admin removal is a feature not a flaw. But how can hijacking be prevented?

Today I learned something new thanks to the Social Media Manager at O’Brien Auto Group, Dane Brooks. He had turned to me for answers on how-to turn off the “Also On” feature that is now displaying on Facebook Pages. This feature is so new, that it had me scratching my head wondering how to respond, [...]

Read More: How-To: Turn Off the Also On Feature on Your Facebook Page

Here's a dose of something that you might have heard before, but it's coming back to light today. Facebook, in a recently-released video that highlights some of the photo tagging features, has shown that it's still testing a feature that will allow you to "Subscribe" to someone's updates. Call it following without friending.What's interesting about this is that not only has Facebook been testing the feature since September of last year without it rolling out, it works a lot like circles on Googl [...]

Read More: Facebook is still testing a Subscribe feature for profiles

It wasn't that long ago when the vast majority of phones were feature phones with little or no graphics capabilities. And, features phone are still a huge market and important in developing nations. Despite the lack of high resolution graphics and GPS in many of these phones, they are not being left out of the ability to make use of geo-location and local search. Nokia Beta Labs released an app for Nokia's Series 40, S60 and Symbian phones to get such information even when GPS hardware is not av [...]

Read More: Nokia Nearby: Hyper-local Search for Feature Phones

Although Financial Times calls the Vodafone 555 Blue a smartphone, it is not.Vodafone and Facebook team up on smartphoneThe Guardian UK got it right by identifying it as a low-price feature phone for emerging markets optimized for use with Facebook.Vodafone 555 Blue Facebook phone will target emerging marketsIf you take a look at the 555 Blue's specifications, you'll find an EDGE only (much slower than 3G) phone with an FM radio and Bluetooth but no WiFi. It has a 200MHz processor that is far to [...]

Read More: Vodafone 555 Blue: Low Cost Facebook Feature Phone. 2G Only. No WiFi

The Google+ mobile web view on the iPhone and iPad has a feature that is not available in the desktop view. If you are in the stream view, there is a link under the Home button labeled Nearby. Tapping that link displays a stream of public posts on Google+ from people relatively nearby (within 20 miles or so from the looks of it).You can return to your public stream view by tapping the Circles link in the Nearby view. Based on what I saw it appears that only a few people are posting to public str [...]

Read More: Google+ “Nearby” Feature Unique to Mobile View

Fresh off a revamp of topics, Quora introduces a fresh new feature to question and answers: video.


Read More: Quora Introduces New Video Feature

Facebook continues to improve on their support for Java-based feature phones. They claim that the update the Facebook for Every Phone app works on more than 2500 different phone models.Facebook for Every PhoneThe app lets a feature phone user access the News Feed, Inbox and Photos. A new feature is the ability to also upload phones from a supported feature phone to Facebook.In order to encourage phone users to try the app, Facebook has negotiated a 90-day free data access period with a number of [...]

Read More: Facebook for Every Phone: Feature Phones Gain the Ability to Post Photos