The death toll from floods that tore through the port city of Jeddah this week has risen to 103, with another 1,400 rescued, according to the state news agency. This was one of the strongest rains that lashed the western city of Jeddah right in the middle of the pilgrimage season, or hajj, when millions of Muslims from around the world arrive in the city on their way to the holy cities of Mecca and...

Slate’s The Big Money.com released the first annual list of “The Big Money Facebook 50,” a ranking of the top fifty companies making the best use of the social networking site, Facebook. Later this week, they will release the “Twitter 12,” the twelve brands making strategic and successful use of twitter. Various metrics—including fan numbers, page growth, frequency of...

Three boys have been arrested for allegedly bullying red-haired students in regard to the “Kick a Ginger Day” incident that happened at a Calabasas school last week. Authorities said four girls and three boys were targeted on “Kick a Ginger Day,” which apparently started because of a Facebook message that pomoted “Kick a Ginger Day.” It is also believed that the...

On and off news have been around in regard with Facebook and third-party providers where developers can run their Facebook applications on. Finally Facebook have posted an update specifying the safe and the unsafe ad networks. The most recent entry into the list of blacklisted group is Gambit, about which we have been hearing a lot in in the recent weeks. Briefly, the four unsafe group listed by Facebook...

Over the weekend, many of you may have noticed that there is no longer a link to send an update to your Facebook Page fans directly on the sidebar. Page updates are vital for a particular page to keep themselves from to vanishing out of  people’s memory.Many people becomes a fan of  Facebook pages just “for the sake of” reason though i cannot argue with the fact that there are also...

Facebook never seems to get itself away from the news. A recent news reports of a new technology that allows access to webpages without internet. Cable television subscribers can now check their Gmail, watch YouTube videos or connect with their friends on Facebook at the cost of the regular cable subscription of Rs 150-200 per month. Logic Eastern, a Noida-based manufacturer of cable infrastructure...

Hong Kong police are on the hunt for the creator of a second Facebook group encouraging teenagers to commit suicide. The group apparently came to light after police launched an investigation into the case of a 15-year-old boy who tried to throw himself off the roof of his school two weeks ago. The boy was a member of the group. This new group emerged on Wednesday and nearly 100 people have signed up...

Electronic Arts who recently purchased the London-based Playfish for up to $400 million is testing the waters on Facebook with a game called Poker Rivals following the success of Texas Hold’em Poker from rival developer Zynga. Playfish have gone all in with Poker Rivals to take Texas Hold ‘Em Poker to a whole new level. Whether you’re a newcomer to Hold ‘Em or you’re an...

“The police are not going to inspect online activities, but we will try to contact people who have logged onto the page,” Li Jianhui, chief police officer in Yuen Long district, told China Daily. But he said it would be hard to track down every member as many of them may not be based in Hong Kong. Mr Li said police and education officials would also be working with parents and teenagers...

Recently, a victim basing on a updated status message, a teenager was acquitted in a robbery case. Now, there is another news going around that basing on some photos and posting on Facebook, a woman had her insurance benifits pulled back. Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year and a half after she was diagnosed with major depression. She...

According to security researchers, some Facebook users have been recently infected with a worm after clicking on an image of a scantily clad woman, which then redirects the victims to a pornography site. The worm posts an image on a victim’s Facebook Wall with a photo of a woman in a bikini and the message “click ‘da button, baby.” Since wall posts are viewable by a Facebook...

Only last week, Facebook served as an alibi for a robbery suspect. The latest news is, a victim tracked down her attacked through Facebook. The victim, a UK woman who was glassed in the face told Sky News Online how she used Facebook to track down her attacker. Jennifer Wilson, 20, was dancing in the Walkabout bar northwest of London when a drunk woman lashed out at her, Sky News reported. Jennifer...

All the recent news about leaked images of Sony PS3 integrating Facebook is legit. Sony has officially announced that the upcoming PS3 firmware 3.10 update will bring  Facebook integration to PlayStation 3’s XMB interface. The update will allow linking user’s Facebook account to their PlayStation Network account. Although it had already been possible to access social networks through the...

Social-networking-made-up words are giving a hard time to all the technical words that comes out every year in the run for WOTY or “Word Of The Year” title. Every new technology brings along a lot of new words with it. Meanwhile made-up words used on social-networking site are also on the rise with millions of people online on different social-networking sites day in and day out. Our own,...

Links are an easy way of sharing something that you like. Link feature can be use to share videos, songs, sites, or pages. Every one knows how to post links or share them. I want to show you an easy method available on Facebook for sharing links. This particular method was discussed in brief in the tutorials section, but i feel that making a separate post on it will be more helpful to those who already...