The popularity of location based applications is on the rise with the global introduction to the likes of Foursquare and Yelp!. Though it seems many have forgotten Twitter has been location aware for some time now.

Twitter gives you the option of enabling Geotagging in your account settings (see image below). Once enabled, third party applications will add a link to your location along with your tweets. (Note that these will only be visible on third party applications and not on the Twitter website). Continue reading »

LinkedIn has recently opened it’s platform for compatibility with third party applications as well as launching Twitter integration. Is all this turning a professional network into a social one? Continue reading »

After releasing the long awaited and much improved iPhone application, Facebook have launched a few other neat features over the last week including @mentions, notifications for Mac and Facebook Lite. News about the ‘Facebook Movie’ also emerged. Continue reading »