Following what Twitter and Google+ have done, Facebook will be introducing “verified accounts” for its celebrity users, which is expected to roll out beginning today. The popular social networking site began testing a system that allows users with large number of subscribers to submit a government-issued ID to prove their identity. This enables the likes of journalists, entertainers, athletes, and othe...

Well isn’t this sweet, and geeky! Drake Martinet, an associate editor of All Things D, proposes to his girlfriend, Mashable’s vice president of marketing and communications Stacy Green, on Valentine’s Day in a way tech bloggers do best: by an infographic. Infographics are graphic visual representations of information and data. You can usually see such images everywhere from subway maps to space ...

Angry Birds has become one of the most popular games in digital times, having been downloaded over 500 million times in various gaming platforms. But in case you have not noticed, Angry Birds is absent on Facebook until yesterday. The Facebook version of this addictive physics-based puzzle game from Rovio is not a mere port of the mobile app, as it adds a few more features such as exclusive levels and all-new powe...

A recent study conducted by fellows of Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Georgia Tech provide an insight on the sensibility of tweets and they conclude people who read posts on Twitter find only about one-third of tweets are worth the read. As part of its study, the researchers created a website called “Who Gives a Tweet?” that works similarly to “Hot or Not,” but for tweets. Users were promised fe...

After weeks of rumors and anticipation, Facebook has finally filed for its IPO (initial public offering). The uber-popular social networking site listed its offering size at $5 billion, although analysts say the IPO could value Facebook between $75 billion and $100 billion, which will make many of its employees millionaires in the process. The Wall Street Journal even speculates Facebook’s IPO, which is expe...

Do you wonder whether someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? While you can do so by looking through your friend list, but you might overlook the tiny details. Now, a script can be downloaded to give you a lowdown on who no longer is your Facebook friend. The Unfriend Finder notifies you when someone on Facebook writes you off their friend list. The script can be downloaded for free and works with a var...

Twitter has updated its system with an “ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country–while keeping it available in the rest of the world.” Yes, it sounds like selective censorship. This new feature would enable Twitter to be more effective in tailoring itself to the needs of certain countries. This can be seem as a good thing or a bad thing. For instance, it is a crime...

Facebook has announced that all of its users will be using its new Timeline profile layout whether or not they like it “over the next few weeks.” The Timeline archives all activities and contents of user in one page. Users who have not converted to Timeline will be warned by Facebook that their profiles would be converted in seven days, giving them time to find a perfect “cover photo” and e...

While the voice of disdain toward Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act spreads on Facebook, users wonder whether the hugely popular social networking site will follow the lead of Wikipedia and shut down its site in protest. Nope, it did not happen. Instead, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his say about the two bills on his Facebook account. “The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a...

Back in September, Facebook announced that it is collaborating with various companies to develop Open Graph Timeline apps. Over 30 companies including Airbnb, Path, Ticketmaster, Payvment, and Causes would produce apps that allow Facebook users to share when they “traveled,” “purchased” an item online, “donated” to charity, and other activities. Although we have yet to see the...