If you’re a Facebook addict and use Flickr at the same time, you’re in for a treat! Flickr has finally joined the bandwagon started by Orkut, Facebook and other such social networking sites of tagging pictures with people’s name to identify them. The feature is called “photos” which works on the same principle as the Facebook & Orkut image tagging goes.
To add the name of the person you’d like to tag on the photo, you simply click and drag a boundary around the area you wish to tag and enter …

Millions of search queries hit Google a few days back, after the king of pop, Michael Jackson died at the age of 50. Google, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by this sudden strike of queries and interpreted the mass fan following as a denial-of-service attack. Since more than millions of search requests were hammered on the Google servers, Google’s anti-botnet mechanisms interpreted this as a massive Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.
The servers were automatically shut down, to avoid being victim of further attacks, leaving users frustrated with a message reading, “Your …

This Friday evening, i.e, 13th June, 2009, will witness a huge load on the Facebook servers, with people from all over the world, trying to get the best Facebook URL they can think of to either sell or use for themselves. The social networking website had promised that they would be launching such Vanity URLs soon around a month back, and they’ve lived up to their promise.

As of now, Facebook generates irrelevant URLs for your profiles, with gibberish numbers at the end of the profile.php in the address bar. This …

Gamers all over the world were shocked and surprised by Microsoft to no limits. The Gaming scenario was completely changed by the heavy artillery attacks by Microsoft on it’s competitors, the Sony Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. The Xbox 360, before this conference, was one of the most preferred gaming consoles in the world, since Sony’s Playstation was just too expensive and Nintendo’s Wii didn’t have comparatively good graphics or any good games for that matter. Microsoft always managed to keep it’s foot hold in the gaming industry by …

Many social networking websites still seem to have photos and similar media content on their servers, even though the respective owners had deleted them from their accounts. Popular websites like Facebook, reportedly have the pictures that the users had uploaded and later deleted on the website till date, according to a British Research group. The researchers claim that they posted few of sample photos on an array of 16 popular social networking websites, including facebook, myspace and similar types and then noted down the links that defined the location of …