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Social Networking
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 …
A Plea to Twitter: Let Us Hide Our Spoilers
A few nights ago as I was scanning through Twitter, my eyes picked up on a few keywords and settled, to my dismay, on a major spoiler for Breaking Bad.
The show had just aired in my time zone, but as a cord cutter, I’ve only …
Using Twitter to Crack Down on Bullying
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have developed a computer program that caught 15,000 bullying-related tweets in one day.
via Using Twitter to Crack Down on Bullying | NewsFeed | TIME.com.
Talk to Your Community, Twitter
If you want to know about the future Twitter’s attempting to build for itself, the best source is the company’s own developer blog. On Thursday, it featured a post by Twitter’s Michael Sippey outlining some changes. The piece …
The New Klout: A Warmer, Fuzzier Bottom Line on Your Online Reputation
People tend to have strong opinions about Klout, the Silicon Valley startup which analyzes online influence and boils it down to a credit-score-like single number on a scale of one to 100.
Some folks check their Klout scores …