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Top Twitter Client

By Sharafat • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

We’ve written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more.
The new client includes support for Facebook, [...]



How Job Seekers Are Using Social Media for Real Results

By Sumaira Bajwa • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Misc

Whether you’re looking for your first job, exploring a career change, or just setting yourself up for future success, social media sites have proven themselves as important platforms for facilitating connections, demonstrating passions and interests, and ultimately landing you the job you actually want.
We know it’s possible to land a job with social media know-how [...]



Facebook Zero

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Looking to avoid data service charges from mobile operators and still satisfy your Facebook craving? Good news, Facebook plans to release a new web site called ‘Zero’.
The site will be a text-only version functioning on a low-bandwidth designed for people who want to stay connected on their cell phones.
Facebook has not made any official statements [...]



Pakistan’s First Facebook Game!

By Hassan Baig • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Entertainment

We are one of Pakistan’s first Facebook gaming company and are run almost entirely by students! You can play our first game at http://apps.facebook.com/feline-frenzy

It is a privilege to be able to represent Pakistan in this growing industry and we really feel that with support from our countrymen, we can bring a lot of good tidings [...]



Gmail will Kill Facebook and Twitter

By Sumaira Bajwa • Feb 10th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Google may be adding new social features to Gmail that would allow users to more quickly and easily share status updates and media the Wall Street Journal reports, citing ‘people familiar with the matter.’
Gmail’s new feature would make it ‘a little more like Facebook,’ says the Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Vascellaro (see video below). ‘Google [...]



Facebook Rolling Out Redesign To Some Users

By Sumaira Bajwa • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Technology

Facebook seems to be rolling out its new site design to at least some people outside the company, although none of us at TechCrunch have yet to be graced with its presence. The new design is “exactly” like the screenshots that GigaOm posted on December 27, says one source.
Applications are taking the biggest hit, as [...]



Google Is About To a Faster Search Index

By Sumaira Bajwa • Dec 29th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Google is getting serious about realtime search, adding Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace streams into results and adding a recent “updates” option which is addictive. But behind the scenes Google is also getting ready to push out an entirely new way for indexing the Web. Codenamed “Caffeine,” Google has been testing it since last summer in [...]



New Facebook Clickjacking Attack Is on the Loose [WARNING]

By Sumaira Bajwa • Dec 22nd, 2009 • Category: Technology

A new Facebook clickjacking attack is making the rounds, and this one is as sly as they come. The attack spreads through a malicious website, http://fb.59.to, leading users to this YouTube video.
The method used to spread the link is particularly interesting. A Facebook user sees a post on a friend’s wall, with a thumbnail and [...]



Get redy for Mafia Wars Bangkok

By Bilal Sulehri • Dec 10th, 2009 • Category: Entertainment

Mafia Wars Bangkok is almost ready, get a head start by collecting the loot items required to unlock Bangkok

Triad Coin (Located in the NYC Soldier Tier)

Yakuza Sake (Located in the NYC Hitman Tier)

Thai Note (Located in the NYC Enforcer Tier)

Thai Passport (Available on launch date)

Bangkok Unlockables
Look for the “Elephant” icon to locate and collect [...]



Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer

By Sumaira Bajwa • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Technology

Affiliate marketing is 15 years old this month—CyberErotica is said to have launched the first program in 1994. The adult industry has always been ahead of the curve, but I digress. Despite 15 years of existence, which is essentially an eternity in “online years”, the performance based marketing method is still in its infancy. Sure, [...]