Pinterest, which lets you collect and share images and links from around the web, is quirky, addictive — and wildly popular. So it’s not surprising that it’s also proving to be influential. It sure influenced Glimpse, a new …
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Foursquare Sees Stars, Signs with Hollywood Talent Agency
In a rare move for a social media site, Foursquare has partnered with United Talent Agency to promote its presence in Hollywood.
The details of the arrangement are vague, but Variety notes that the move is probably geared …
Facebook Now Lets You Download More of Your Account History
Ever wonder what information Facebook is collecting about you? Well, you’ve been able to find out since 2010, when Facebook first introduced the Download Your Information feature.
Now the company has announced that it’s making …
Google+ Gets More Colorful with Big Redesign
Google+ has always worked just fine. When it comes to uploading photos from Android phones and engaging in discussions with large groups of people, it’s actually more convenient than Facebook, not to mention Hangouts are pretty …
Wavii: The World Reorganized to Look like Facebook
Before the dawn of Facebook, the notion of organizing information into never-ending feeds of terse status updates would have sounded like gobbledegook. But Facebook proves that when it comes to keeping track of your friends’ …
Facebook to Buy Instagram: 5 Lingering Questions
When Facebook announced on Monday that it will buy Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stocks, both companies emphasized that the photo-sharing app isn’t going away. But that’s about all they focused on in the announcement, …
Facebook to Acquire Instagram Photo-Sharing App
Facebook just announced that “it has reached an agreement to acquire Instagram, a fun, popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices.” The deal consists of “approximately $1 billion in a combination of cash and shares of Facebook” …
Twitter Hates Spam Too, Finally Brings Lawsuit Against ‘Bad Actors’
Tired of Twitter spam? So is Twitter. So tired, in fact, that they’ve released their legal hounds to run down several of the worst spam-tastic perps. Does this mean we can finally stop using all those clumsy, fidgety, …
Why Combining Social Media Sites Can Be Hazardous to Your Privacy
It’s hard not to feel gross after reading Cult of Mac’s description of Girls Around Me. For those not up-to-date on the controversy, Girls Around Me is an app from Russian developer i-Free which maps out women’s locations and …
Teacher’s Aide Fired for Refusing to Let Employer Shoulder Surf Her Facebook Page
The Facebook-related firings have begun: A teacher’s aide in Michigan was let go from her job after a school administrator demanded that she turn over her Facebook password and she refused. The aide, Kimberly Hester, is preparing for a legal showdown with the school system.
Pinterest Easiest Site to Spam Says Man Making $1,000 a Day Doing It
Now that even Barack Obama has a Pinterest profile, it’s safe to say the site is getting pretty popular. Where the people go, so too do the spammers — one of which actually sat down with the Daily Dot to talk about his …
Pin Tactics: Obama Joins Pinterest
It’s official: The President has joined Pinterest.
The @BarackObama Twitter account made the formal announcement yesterday:
Organizers, infographics, murals, and cake—now pinning all of the above for
#Obama2012 on
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