Word to the wise: This app is not for people who can’t handle Foursquare. But if you can get past sharing your location to the world (and love to tweet and Facebook with rabid enthusiasm), Color, a social-network-slash-phone-app, is an interesting social network that’s designed to meet people.
Color is basically a smartphone …
Congratulations Twitter, you’ve made it past the five year hump! What are you going to do next?
Wait, what? You’re going to start a new website extolling how amazing and innovative you are? Is that really necessary, Twitter?
In conjunction with the company’s fifth birthday, Twitter unveiled discover.twitter.com, a separate site …
When Apple invented the App Store, it invented a whole new way of selling software – one so popular that other tech companies have rushed to build their own clones of the same idea.
Is Facebook among them? Possibly so, given the weekend’s news that it has signed a deal to buy UK/Israeli mobile technology company Snaptu.
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From zero to a billion dispatches each week faster than a speeding whim, the pithy microblogging service that chronicles everything from your lousy breakfast to how to coordinate protests in Iran celebrates a kind of fifth anniversary today.
Crazy but true, it’s been exactly half a decade since Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey got the …
European politicians are a circumspect bunch: they don’t tend to call out American tech companies directly. Still, the speech that European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding delivered yesterday left little doubt that the European Union is giving Facebook and Google Street View the stinkeye over …
No one likes to be alone.
The powers behind Facebook have been monitoring our constant stream of nonsensical status updates, and they see that we hate to do things by ourselves. Does anyone care about what salad we ate for lunch? No. So why do we write about it? We’re hoping that someone is sharing the minutia of our day, even if it …
First Google did it, then Facebook, and now Twitter’s following suit, adding an option to permanently shore up your account’s defenses courtesy the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, commonly abbreviated HTTPS.
Normally you type ‘http’ into your URL bar to conjure a website, but if you’ve ever used a service like online banking, you …
Be careful if you’re typing something on your Facebook wall today: the social network has made a tiny change to how things work.
As detailed by the Next Web, Facebook’s “Comment” button has disappeared. Now you just need to hit the Enter or Return key to post your comment. If you want a paragraph break in the comment, you have to
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Add Facebook to the list of sites you go to in order to find a good deal. The social network announced that it will be launching an online deal service that will cater to their over 500 million users.
“We will test a new feature for our Deals product that allows people to buy deals on Facebook and share them with their friends. …
The charge was serious: that Twitter on more than one occasion told consumers that the company was protecting their privacy when they, in fact, were not. Which is where the hackers come in.
Specifically, the FTC alleged that due to “serious lapses” in security, hackers obtained “unauthorized administrative control of Twitter, …
Did you know you had a Google Profile? Because you probably do, and as TIME’s Joel Stein discovered this week, it might be just another case of big business knowing more about you than you might think.
If you have a Google account – which you will have, if you’ve ever signed up for a Google online service like Gmail, Google Docs, or …
As someone who is always trying to look for a recommended dog sitter or the cheapest place to buy dog food, Pawsley makes sense. The social networking site is like a Facebook for pet owners. Instead of annoying everyone on your News Feed about your desire to figure out why Bruno keeps peeing on the bed, you can just post your request to …
