Want to stay ahead of the Dow Jones? Apparently, the new way to do it is to pay attention to Twitter. A paper from the Universities of Indiana and Manchester called “Twitter Mood Predicts The Stock Market” seems to suggest that the overall mood of the social network is a surprisingly good indicator of where the market will go soon …
Color: A Social-Networking Phone App That Connects to People Around You
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 …
40% of Social Network Users Attacked by Malware
The newest battleground for malware attacks? Facebook and Twitter. And, according to the experts, it’s one of the most productive for the attackers. Why? Well, people can’t help but click social links.
Last December, the anti-virus firm Sophos discovered that 40% of social network users had encountered malicious attacks. Despite …
Twitter Celebrates Their 5th Birthday By Launching A New Website
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 …
For Twitter’s 5th Anniversary, Our 5 Favorite Tweets
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 …
Japanese Nuclear Plant Owners Join Twitter
It’s modern public relations 101: When you want to humanize your negative publicity, create a Twitter account. But while that kind of thing worked wonders for Charlie Sheen, it’s unlikely that the Tokyo Electric Power Co. – the owners of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant that has been threatening to meltdown since last week’s …
The History of Twitter According to Soulja Boy and Ken Burns
Gasp, it’s been five whole years since Twitter made its mark and forced everyone to condense everything into 140 characters. (By the way, happy birthday, Twitter.)
In this Funny or Die video, Ken Burns takes a #retrospective look on the whole thing from Twitter’s pioneers: Ashton Kutcher, Oprah and even… Sarah Palin.
Hey, how …
Twitter Boosts Security with Permanent HTTPS Support
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 …
TechFast: YouTube Upgrade, Green Luxury Cars, End of Internet as We Know It
Google upgrades YouTube with Irish video company purchase
Google has bought Irish video technology company Green Parrot, in the hope it can use their code to sharpen, straighten, and generally tidy up a lot of the video content that gets uploaded to YouTube. What you see is no longer what you got. Look out for more on this story later
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TechFast: Pi Day, Quake Updates, Twitter Scam
Good morning! Here’s the tech stuff that’s breaking this morning, more on the big tech news stories of the day coming up later.
Happy Pi Day!
Yay, today is Pi day! Happy 3.1415926535 to you and all your loved ones!
Link: Pi Day
News travels faster than quakes
Everyone knows news goes fast, but the Japanese disaster shows
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Twitter Settles With FTC Over Privacy Complaint
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, …
Japan Captures Tsunami, Quake Footage with Camera Phones
Given the prevalence of advanced mobile devices in Japan, there’s been no shortage of citizen-broadcast videos and imagery from the recent earthquake. Here are some of the better places to follow along online.
VIDEOS
YouTube’s CitizenTube channel has established a playlist of videos related to the disaster, with footage rolling in …