- New desktop Messenger application keeps Facebook omnipresent Just hours after an initial leak, Facebook counteracted and released a beta version of their first official desktop client - Facebook Messenger for Windows.
- Facebook phasing out support for IE7 One year after Facebook officially renounced support for Internet Explorer 6, it seems that Internet Explorer 7 is destined to experience a similar fate as support for the ailing browser is lacking in Facebook's most important recent innovation - Timeline.
- Google+ adoption rate accelerating, reaches 62 million users Google+ user adoption rate has accelerated to 625,000 new sign-ups each day, with the social network reaching 62 million users in total by December 27th, according to unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen and his team.
- Dropbox experiments with frictionless photo and video importing Dropbox has introduced an experimental new feature to the latest forum build of the application that automatically syncs photos and videos from cameras and smartphones to Dropbox once connected to a user's desktop or laptop.
- Smartphones continued to replace traditional cameras in 2011, here's why In 2011, smartphones continued to replace traditional point-and-shoot cameras as the default device of choice for recording still images and video, with the percentage of photos taken on smartphones rising from 17% in 2010 to 27% this year, according to NPD Group data concerning the United States.
- Go Daddy: How to lose 21,054 registrants in a day Even after Go Daddy's apparent reversal on their initial decision to support the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) the fall-out continues in this escalating PR disaster as a reported 21,054 domains were transferred away from Go Daddy on Friday last.
- Report: Ireland, the internet and mobile devices in 2011 As the year draws to a close we delve into our own site analytics to see what mobile devices Irish internet users were using in 2011. It comes as no surprise to find that Apple's iPhone leads the way by a country-mile.
- YouTube gets into Christmas spirit, adds falling snow video overlay Although increasingly mild conditions of late suggests with certainty that we won't experience a white Christmas this year (at least here in Ireland), YouTube is attempting to bring some much needed festive cheer by providing a snow overlay option on some of the millions of videos available to watch on the video sharing service.
- RTÉ Player app for iPhone and iPad arrives in time for Christmas As promised by RTÉ's director of platform development Aisling McCabe at October's Dublin Web Summit, the RTÉ Player app for the iPhone and iPad has been released in time for Christmas. The universal iOS app made its way through Apple's App Store approval process last weekend, and was made available for free download as of this morning.
- More from The Sociable A short update on what's been keeping us busy lately and a hint of things to come in 2012. We introduce our sister site Football Pantheon, hint at another network addition early next year and mention our feature in this month's edition of Click Magazine.