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Attention all obsessive internet pirates: If SOPA has you worried about your ability to continue to perform your pixelated perfidy, there’s one clear and unexpected solution to your problem: Move to Sweden, which has just recognized file-sharing as an official religion.
Facebook has worked out a new strategy to try and strengthen its relationship with advertisers and the advertising industry: Flattery. The social media company is preparing to award the first Facebook Studio Awards, created to recognize the most creative and most successful social marketing on its site.
Google got a late Christmas present from IBM last week when it purchased 217 patents from the company in areas such as data caching, video conferencing, instant messaging software and network performance. The transfer of the patents — 188 already granted with a further 29 pending — was noted by SEO by the Sea blogger [...]
What happens when a company accidentally ends up breaking its own ethics rules? Google is having to deal with that embarrassing situation right now, with the revelation that promotion for its Chrome web browser may have strayed outside of the company’s guidelines on paid links.
Well, now you can guess how many people got iPads, iPhones and Android devices for Christmas: Last week saw a massive jump in the number of devices activated and apps downloaded, with the latter number reaching a record 1.2 billion apps across iOS and Android devices. That’s significantly up from the previous record of 857 million. [...]
With Netflix now having multiple series of original content in various levels of production, including shows that it beat out HBO and other cable channels for the rights to, you might be forgiven for thinking that 2012 was going to be the year when the internet stepped up and became a genuine force in television production. But the reality is a little more complicated.
Sure, social media sounds like something that increases quality of life, but two recent stories out of the U.K. demonstrate just how easily the opposite could be true: Facebook apparently has the power to not only end your marriage, but also get you fired. Be very afraid.
Did Amazon.com really try and extort a higher commission from a small company selling Kindle accessories and then, when the company refused to pay up, bury the company’s products deep within Amazon’s labyrinthine structure?
The Tweet Smarter blog has released a chart of 2011′s most popular subjects in terms of how many tweets they produced per second, and the leader by a wide margin is the December 13 Japanese television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated movie Castle in the Sky, which resulted in a staggering 25,088 tweets per second.
If the Internet’s top news searches are anything to go by, 2011 was all about glamor, gloss and more than a little frivolity, with Kate Middleton, Charlie Sheen, Kim Kardashian and American Idol dominating people’s attention over the last 12 months.
Around 40% of Facebook users access the social networking site via mobile app, according to a research firm, with half of all active iOS and Android users (as well as an estimated 70% of BlackBerry users) installing the Facebook app.
