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Facebook SIM Card Coming Soon

16 February 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Facebook is working on a Facebook SIM Card that will allow users to update their Facebook profile instantly, via SMS, even without owning a smartphone.

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Paolo Nespoli Nominated for Shorty Award

28 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Paolo Nespoli (@astro_paolo on Twitter) has been officially nominated for a Shorty Award in the “science” category. You can vote for the Italian astronaut who tweets, here’s how.

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Facebook Credits, Facebook’s Official Currency, Mandatory from July

26 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Facebook has minted its official currency: Facebook Credits. How do they work and what are they?

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Google Prepares to Take On Groupon with Google Offers

21 January 2011 Anna Bruno 0

Google is about to launch its Groupon clone, which will be called Google Offers. After rejecting the $6 billion acquisition offer, Groupon is now preparing to face Google with the same weapons.

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Facebook Messages Arrives in Italy: @facebook.com Email Ready

17 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Facebook Messages is the @facebook.com email, also arriving in Italy for users registered on the social network. Here are the main features and the presentation video of Facebook Messages.

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MySpace for Sale, It’s Official

13 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

MySpace is for sale, the news is now official: News Corp itself has made it known.

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Quora, question and answer social network

13 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Quora is the social network of the moment: based on questions and answers, it already has about 500,000 users. How to sign up for Quora and how does it work?

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Facebook closing in March: the hoax circulates online

10 January 2011 Redazione FullPress 0

Yesterday, the news of the upcoming closure of Facebook spread. The official denial arrived promptly, but the online hoax traveled fast.

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Mark Zuckerberg: Man of the Year 2010 and Generous Benefactor

17 December 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Mark Zuckerberg graces the cover of Time as Man of the Year 2010 and pledges half of his personal fortune to charity: a wealthy benefactor at the helm of the Facebook empire.

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Paolo Nespoli on Twitter: Space as told through tweets

16 December 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Paolo Nespoli will narrate his mission into space thanks to Twitter: one tweet a day for the Italian astronaut connected from the International Space Station.

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UK: Traffic to Retailer Websites Increasingly Social

1 December 2010 Anna Bruno 0

Traffic to online retailer websites from social networks is steadily increasing in the UK. Compared to last year, the growth is 13%, according to Experian Hitwise, a British company specializing in analysis and surveys.

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Jumo, social network for NGOs and activists

1 December 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Jumo is the social network that speaks to activists and NGOs, born from the project of Chris Hughes. The founder’s name is no stranger to the web: Hughes is indeed the co-founder of Facebook. The

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MySpace reaches agreement with Facebook to avoid collapse

19 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

MySpace has said yes to Facebook: the two social networks will now be linked, allowing MySpace users to “tie” their profile to their one on Facebook. An inevitable decision to try and stem the hemorrhage

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Facebook Messages: Facebook mail has arrived, always very social

16 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

The Facebook mail is about to invade the private communications of millions of users, but not before a few months. The official announcement came directly from Mark Zuckerberg who explained that, at least initially, the

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Path, a smartphone social network that’s more personal than social

15 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Path is the new smartphone social network that, unlike all other social networks, does not allow for a large roster of friends (or supposed ones): on Path, only 50 contacts per person can be accepted.

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Facebook Webmail, the Anti-Gmail is Coming Soon

12 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

All things considered, Facebook is only missing a webmail service to definitively capture the millions of users who use the father of social networks every day to communicate with friends near and far.Well, according to

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Facebook Responds to Google on API Block: How to Export Contacts

10 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Facebook’s response was not long in coming, after Google’s decision to block APIs useful for exchanging information and exporting data from Gmail to one’s Facebook profile.More than a response with press releases and words, the

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Google Blocks Facebook APIs

8 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

How many users enter personal data online without fully realizing how it’s disseminated? To bring order to this vast amount of information that travels from one service to another, from a social network to a

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Facebook News: Mobile and Geolocation Take Center Stage

4 November 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Geolocation on Facebook goes hand-in-hand – as is logical – with smartphones and devices that allow for mobile connectivity.The two new features presented are indeed closely linked: the growing number of accesses to Facebook from

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New MySpace: New Logo, New Suite, Many Innovations for MySpace

28 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

A change of air at MySpace, the social network fundamentally based on music that in recent months has not been immune to the surge of Facebook. Today, however, it’s time to announce all the innovations

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Facebook Banned During House Arrest

19 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Even the interpretation of the Penal Code is adapting to the times, or at least the rulings derived from it are. In the case of house arrest, the principle of prohibiting contact with individuals outside

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Farmville, Privacy, and Facebook: Applications Transmit Personal Data

18 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

There’s no doubt that privacy on Facebook is a pipe dream; not even profiles with the most restrictive settings escape the insidious spread of personal data if, in addition to staying in touch with friends,

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Facebook launches one-time password

13 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

The operation of Facebook’s one-time password is very simple: just send an SMS from your confirmed mobile number (i.e., known to Facebook for security checks) with the following text: otp. The SMS should be addressed

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Tools for Twitter, list of the best 50 applications

7 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

How to best use Twitter with some simple and very useful Twitter applications. A guide that gathers and lists 50 Twitter tools, free and available to everyone to fully utilize their Twitter account.

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Facebook Places: Geolocation also in Italy with Facebook Places

4 October 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

Pure and simple connection between people: Facebook Places aims to make people aware that, in a certain area, at a certain moment, there is a friend nearby. The service is also aimed at businesses that,

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Google Me: Google’s Anti-Facebook is Coming

30 June 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

The tweet that initiated the flood of rumors surrounding this potential social network is no longer traceable, having been promptly removed. However, the profile that originated it does not belong to a novice: it is

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The Ancestors of Chat

13 February 2010 Anna Bruno 0

The first BBS was created in 1978, and it was CommuniTree BBS in Santa Cruz (USA). A BBS is therefore a service, accessible via modem, that functions as a centralized information source for files, programs,

Google Buzz: Gmail Becomes Google’s Social Network

10 February 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

An integrated system within Gmail to organize the myriad of tasks and information that arrive daily through the various online services used by an ever-increasing number of people.Google Buzz essentially aggregates everything and makes it

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Gmail and Social Networks, Google Moving Towards Facebook and Twitter

9 February 2010 Redazione FullPress 0

News is expected following the press conference announced for today, however, the rumors about the social turn for Gmail are overwhelming.

Stayinme.com, social network to remember the deceased

4 November 2009 Anna Bruno 0

From the idea of journalists Isa Grassano and Lucrezia Argentiero, there was born Stayinme (www.stayinme.com), a social network perhaps peculiar and currently unique in Italy. The premise is that sharing one’s feelings about the loss

Facebook, boom in username registration

17 June 2009 Anna Bruno 0

Wake-up call at 6 AM on June 13th: a large number of Facebook users stormed the social network to claim their desired URL address, whether it was composed of a first and last name or

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MySpace Surpassed by Facebook, Layoffs Begin

17 June 2009 Redazione FullPress 0

MySpace, the social network born as a reference point for musicians and aspiring ones, is undergoing a strong restructuring that will impose job cuts with 400 employees laid off.

Windows 7 to be Sold Without Explorer

12 June 2009 Anna Bruno 0

The axe of sanctions previously imposed by the European Commission on Microsoft has led to the proposal of a kind of unprecedented version pre-installed on new PCs for sale in the coming months: Microsoft has

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Google Squared, Semantic and Interactive Search Engine

4 June 2009 Redazione FullPress 0

From Mountain View comes the new service Google Squared: an attempt to resolve ambiguities in search results.

Interview with Giulio Montemagno, Country Manager of PayPal Italy

3 November 2006 Redazione FullPress 0

What does the Italian online payments market look like and what are the prospects?Paypal has been present in the Italian market for just over a year and has already reached over one million active accounts

Netiquette, chats also have their own etiquette

3 February 2006 Anna Bruno 0

Among users of telematic network services, especially the Internet, and in particular among readers of Usenet “news” services, a series of “traditions” and “rules of good behavior” (etiquette) have developed over time, collectively known as “netiquette.”

Chat Abbreviations

3 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

There are words that are abbreviated in chats for convenience. Below is a substantial number of symbolic words used in chats, a sort of glossary for chats.

Blog: freewheeling chats and thoughts on the web

2 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

But then, what is a blog? The term was officially coined in December 1997 by Jorn Barger, author of one of the first and best-known blogs, RobotWisdom (www.robotwisdom.com). The term blog is an English neologism,

Emoticons, here are the funniest ones

2 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

Emoticons are those little faces used to express a state of mind. Emoticons are widely used by SMS users, email and newsgroup users, and chat participants.

IRC, the original chat

1 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

IRC is a small program that allows remote computers connected to the Internet to chat and talk with all the other users connected to IRC servers scattered worldwide. IRC servers are very numerous and today

The Cousins of Blogs: E/N Websites

1 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

The history of E/N websites began in 1998 when the webmaster of a video game site decided to open a section where anything was discussed, except games. The section was called “Everything but the games”.

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“Members” or “inhabitants,” a snapshot of those who bring communities to life

1 February 2005 Anna Bruno 0

The Moderators
The moderators of a virtual community are the so-called “peacemakers,” meaning those who are responsible for preventing some members from letting the “discussions” degenerate within the community. They are very important within forums dealing with important topics and within relevant newsgroups. Moderators can be distinct figures from the staff and leaders. They are highly valuable in newsgroups as they filter out spam and inappropriate messages.

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