What if you could take Facebook pokes and bring them into the physical world? If given the chance, would you? Dutch Designer/Developer Jasper van Loenen has created a way to do just that! He calls it the Poking Machine. It’s a wearable device that pokes you, physically, whenever you are poked on Facebook. Creating a custom circuit, van Loenan enables a motorized lever connected to a 9-volt battery and a Bluetooth chip, to extrude and resembling a human finger, poke the...

As useful as and engrained as Twitter has become in our daily lives, we’ve always had a bone to pick concerning searching for new people in the vast sea of twits. Those looking for a more fine tuned searching service had to resort to third party services or jump out of “new twitter” into the past. But search aimlessly no more according to a post on Twitter’s official blog. Twitter has updated the search algorithm to now also take into account the...

Social butterflies on RIM’s BlackBerry platform have some new and exciting things to look forward to in Facebook 2.0. Pictures of the new v2 app leaked out onto the interwebs tonight showing among other things, a much needed UI redesign that makes the app more pleasing on the eyes overall, and less like a 2003 mobile app. But besides the added eye candy, v2 of Facebook for BlackBerry adds in support for Facebook Chat, the ability to view friends’ profiles,...

The great twitter ban of 2011 is over. Late last week, we learned that two popular Twitter mobile apps, UberTwitter and Twidroyd, were banned access to Twitter’s mobile app API for numerous policy violations. What was more odd than the actual policies reportedly broken was the fact that Twitter claimed to have given the parent company of said apps, UberMedia, over 8 months to correct the problems at hand. And then, on the day of the ban, the company issued a...

Well that was quick — mere hours after learning of Twitter’s banning of popular 3rd party services, UberTwitter and Twidroyd, parent company, UberMedia has already stated that the accusations made by Twitter have been fixed. This is slightly odd in the sense that Twitter themselves had stated that they had been warning UberMedia since April of last year about the suposed violations — violations which included insecure handling of 140+ character Direct...