If you use Twitter, and follow lots of people who post photos from Instagram, you may notice that those photos don’t look quite right.
Social Networking
Why Facebook Will Have Trouble Killing the Text Message
Facebook has started to roll out a new version of its Messenger app for Android that only requires a name and a phone number, not an actual Facebook account, to sign up.
Wavii Comes Into Its Own on the iPhone
The unique service which turns everything into Facebook-like status updates has a nice (albeit busy) new iPhone app.
‘Trekkie Dating’ Site Is Pretty Much Exactly Like It Sounds
Now there’s no need to wait until the official Star Trek conventions to meet your match.
Social Network Connects Breast Cancer Patients and Survivors
Imagine a Facebook or Pinterest for women with the chronic disease.
Netbot: Good News for App.net’s Anti-Twitter Insurrection
A couple of months ago, I got excited about App.net, Dalton Caldwell's social network which was both a Twitter clone and an anti-Twitter. (It looks and works much like Twitter once did, but charges for service and aims to welcome
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The Art of Social: Users Share Artwork on ArtStack
If you like going to museums, ArtStack may be the social platform for you. The site, which launched at the end of 2011, is a place for users to find, share, and discover art, architecture, design, and video.
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Kickstarter Aims to Make Gadgets Less of a Gamble
For the new dead-tree issue of TIME that comes out today, I had fun profiling Kickstarter, the highest-profile site enabling crowdfunding of creative projects. (Subscribers can read the article here.) I write about some of the …
Site Lets You Simulate a Facebook Hack, Goes Viral at PennApps
At the beginning of every school year, most college students receive the same warning email or lecture from campus safety: don’t leave your laptop unattended because someone could steal it. But they don’t warn you that a friend …
50 Best Websites 2012
TIME’s annual salute to sites and services that keep you entertained and informed, save you time and money — and maybe even change your life
Back to the Farm: Zynga Launches FarmVille 2
At the height of the FarmVille craze, back in 2010, there were two kinds of Facebook users: those who were addicted to FarmVille, and those whose friends were addicted to FarmVille.
Zynga’s creation wasn’t the first one to let …
Wolfram Alpha’s Facebook Analytics Tool Digs Deep into Your Social Life
Quick: who’s your oldest friend on Facebook? What’s the most popular photo you’ve ever posted? When are you most likely to be found updating your status?
I actually know the answers to those questions—and a lot of …
