If you are social on the web and want to organize all your accounts in one client under Ubuntu Linux 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx… then this tutorial is for you. Gwibber, a social client that comes standard with Lucid lets you manage your Twitter, Flickr, Facebook microblogging accounts and more, all in one place right on your desktop. Adding accounts is easy, just look below to see how quickly Twitter was added. Configuring Ubuntu’s Social Microblogging Client Gwibber 2.30.1 Launch Gwibber (Applications > Internet > Gwibber Social Client) and choose the

Wirefly have made an official announcement that they secured some of those rare HTC EVO 4G handsets for their Facebook fans. The company received a batch of EVO 4G mobiles and will start selling them over Facebook, today, at a very special Wirefly price.Wirefly Reserving HTC EVOs for Facebook Fans!Wirefly has received a cache of EVOs today! As you know, HTC Evos have been hard to come by online or in stores. Because of the huge demand for the amazingly hot superphone and the limited supply constraints, we are reserving this offer to our loyal Facebook fans. 

Today, Facebook announced that they won’t be supporting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 for their service anymore. This has come as yet another sign to the various companies and individual users out there that it’s probably finally time to move up and upgrade to a more recent version of the browser. Still, it should be noted that the change in Facebook’s policy is only related to their chat function and not the site as a whole.According to a blog post from Facebook representatives, the move came as a response to some user complaints about the chat’s

Just this morning, Facebook made the announcement that they’ve reached a staggering half a billion users – and this is just counting the active ones and not the “dormant” profiles. To celebrate the event, Facebook are launching a new app called Facebook Stories – the app is designed for sharing your best stories related to using the service. And while most will probably describe how it’s managed to keep them in touch with their friends, there are some more interesting ones in there as well.And just to put this into a bit more perspective, here

Recently it’s come to light that Mark Zuckerberg may not actually fully own Facebook at all. A lawsuit filed in a New York Court by a Paul D. Ceglia states that the original Facebook site has been bought by him for the sum of $1000. According to the lawsuit, in 2003 Zuckerberg was paid $1000 by Ceglia for the service of building a website which was to be called “TheFacebook”.Ceglia should’ve gotten a 50% interest in the website’s revenue, as well as 1% of the company for every day following January 1, 2004 during which the website wasn’t yet

It is time that you make the world of Facebook your very own and a new application at the App Store by the name of Vonage Mobile for Facebook will help you do so. All the people on your Facebook friends list can be directly contacted through a voice call with this Vonage application provided your friends also have this viral application downloaded.The experts to have come up with this application see Vonage as an odd, viral solution for voice communications. The best part is that this app is not limited to any particular kind of bandwidth and hence it functions on WiFi, 3G, as

Recently, a highly controversial post appeared on Sarah Palin’s official Facebook page, which caused quite a lot of commotion in the Internet community – and now the post has mysteriously vanished, with some speculating that a campaign to remove the post is responsible for the ordeal.In the post in question, Sarah Palin expressed strong negativity towards the idea of building a mosque in New York several blocks from the location of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks – which, as most of you probably remember, were performed by Muslim extremists. According to

Accessing social networking and micro blogging sites from your handhelds has quite become the trend and this is a definitive factor which people consider while buying a smartphone or any other type of handheld devices. Direct access is what most of us seek. This is exactly why the news of an updated Facebook application for Android becomes such an important piece of information in the apparent context.You read it right people, Facebook for Android (I mean the Official application) has been upgraded to version 1.3.0 and by the look of things, it definitely looks better than all the

Okay, we have to say this is getting a bit too awkward for our taste. It’s understandable when a video game franchise expands beyond pixels on the screen and spawns its own line of real-life products… but FarmVille-themed food? Oh well, like it or not – it’s here anyway.The picture you see above was snapped in a 7-Eleven, which means that the products are probably already making their way through the US stores. We can’t make out exactly what is in those packages, but we sure hope the manufacturer isn’t one of those that only wants to milk a

A German privacy regulator has threatened to issue a fine to Facebook, since they don’t have the consent of the people whose information is stored in their databases. The problematic areas in question are related to Facebook’s functionality for inviting friends and synchronizing your address book, allowing it to upload and store contact information from your e-mail as well as mobile phone address books.The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information are claiming that some of the personal information that’s related to people who