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Extensions not only make your browsing experience much more fun with cool social extensions and customisations, they also help you perform every day tasks more quickly. From price finders to URL shorteners; weather forecasts to feed readers; and bookmark synchronisation to text and image editors; we’ve got them all.

Google+, the search giant's new social network, has rolled out trending topics within Google+ Search.

The U.S. government needs to be certain that our response to the genuine and massive threat of cyber attacks is not as bureaucratic and fractious as everything else that goes on in Washington these days.

A Facebook phone would entwine the social network too deeply into your life, privacy, and everyday tasks. No thank you!

Google says it's adding +1 recommendations to Google News. But has the web giant lost the social news market to Twitter and Facebook, or could the integration of recommendations with the Google+ network allow it to catch up and become a strong competitor?

China’s notorious Great Firewall — or as they call it, the Golden Shield — is known for blocking some high profile sites. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are all victims. But that has not kept the world’s most populous country from getting into social networking. Some 500 million Chinese citizens are online and a quarter of the world’s social network users live under the firewall.

For all the good it can do, social networking also has its share of downsides. Putting personal information of any kind on the internet raises plenty of privacy concerns on its own, and handing over your username and password can … Continue reading →

Daily deals have become a bridging segment between social media and eCommerce. With the holidays just a few weeks away, the post-Black Friday buying frenzy is starting to ramp up and sites like Groupon and Living Social are making pushes for their share of the pie. Daily Deals Dashboard startup Frugalo launched this week and wants to be a part of the conversation. Should we be listening?

When the social network goes public in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg's company may instantly become one of the the biggest hits in IPO history.

This bit of advice may be a bit too late for many of you, but there are still a lot of people that can benefit from this sage advice.