Month: December 2010

Want to work for Facebook? – they're hiring in Dublin

It won't save the Irish economy by itself, but Facebook are to consolidate their base in Dublin Ireland by hiring another 100 people to work there. Dublin is the nerve center for Facebook's Europe, the Middle East and Africa headquarters and they're looking for international sales, finance and developer management staff. Facebook have a very…

Tumblr back up now, puts outage down to growing pains

Hipster blogging platform Tumblr is back up and running now after an outage of roughly 24 hours. That's a long time in blog hosting world and the site got a lot of flak for going under and taking all its blogs with it for most of yesterday. They say it was just "growing pains" due…

Poll: What do you think of the new Facebook profile?

It sticks your key data at the top along with a carousel of recent pictures and displays your interests and hobbies in cute pictorial form that makes it all look like the app store. Do we like it? Do you like the new Facebook profile page?online survey More info on Facebook Profile Page here Related:…

Firefox Sets Up Baby Firefox Webcam

Did you know that the cute little 'Mozilla Firefox', isn't actually a fox? It turns out it is in fact a red panda. To help clear up this massive confusion, Mozilla in a stroke of marketing genius, has adopted a family of firefoxes and are streaming their every move by webcam for the whole world…

Literary Social Network Figment Launches As Social Studying Trend Grows

Last week I wrote about the emerging online trend of Social Studying. This growing trend seeks to bring together social networks and more academic pursuits together. The latest site to throw it's hat into the ring is Figment. The site which launched yesterday, was founded by the former managing editor of The New Yorker, Jacob…

Real Life Version Of Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver In The Works

Ever wished you had your own version of Doctor Who's trusted sonic screwdriver? It seems the ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, do. The two recently teamed up, finding inspiration for their latest experiments from the much loved television program. Ultrasonic engineers at Bristol University and…

Facebook Ditches Restrictions On Competitions

It seems like the new profile page isn't the only change Facebook has made recently. Last week the social network changed their policy on contests. Until now Facebook has insisted on pre-approving all on-site promos and restricted access to only those spending more than $10,000 on advertising. However, according to "Inside Facebook", the site is…

Can this Facebook cartoon character against child abuse get any weirder?

Well I thought I understood this 'change your facebook avatar to a picture of a cartoon to help raise awareness of child abuse' thing. I thought I did. I thought - "well that sounds a bit lame but well-meaning". But the whole thing has descended into a maelstrom of conspiracy theories and accusations of paedophilia,…