Category: Social Networking

July 19, 2019

YouTube Music got a nifty new feature this week for its Premium subscribers, allowing you to switch seamlessly between audio and video playback without interrupting the flow of a song. YouTube announced the feature in a blog post on July […]

July 12, 2019

Google+, which was shut down in April, may have been the Internet search giant’s most popular (albeit ill-fated) stab at creating a social network, but it wasn’t the first. Technically, it was the fourth—following in the footsteps of such mishaps […]

July 8, 2019

Google Chrome currently lets users know about which sites are playing audio and mute them permanently, useful in case of intrusive auto-playing content. A new feature spotted in the browser’s Canary version reveals that a button will now enable play/pause […]

June 17, 2019

News that Mozilla could release a suite of privacy focused tools and services to complement its popular Firefox browser sent tongues wagging across the security and privacy industry. Many believe this might be a blessing in disguise as it will […]

June 13, 2019

Just a few years ago, most people barely acknowledged LinkedIn as a social network. “Oh, LinkedIn? I never really pay attention to that.” was a popular refrain. While most people were snoozing, LinkedIn was growing, and a combination of LinkedIn […]

May 6, 2019

YouTube announced over the weekend that it’s shifting its original content strategy and will start to offer all its original programming, currently accessible via monthly subscription, completely free. The announcement mentions that all new YouTube Original series, as well as […]

April 19, 2019

YouTube has become a ubiquitous part of our online world, one where privacy is an issue. Your video-watching habits may be open for the world to see, along with your likes, dislikes, and more. If you create and upload videos, […]

April 12, 2019

Sometimes, you make a decision, and years later you look back upon that moment and think: Wait, why the hell did I do that? Now, Facebook appears to be experiencing something of the sort. According to app researcher Jane Manchun […]

April 2, 2019

You’ve probably forgotten all about it already, but today, April 2, is the day Google officially shuts down its social network, Google+. The company disabled the creation of new accounts in February, and will start deleting content today. “On April […]

March 14, 2019

If you’re bothered by Facebook’s notoriously shady data harvesting methods and various other controversies surrounding the privacy and security of the social networking titan’s user base, it’s probably not a good idea to switch to Instagram. But there are actually […]