When I last (and first) wrote about App.net — an ad-free, developer-friendly, would-be Twitter competitor — I was wondering whether it would meet its goal of raising $500,000 via a Kickstarter-esque crowdfunding system by …
Social Networking
App.net: Both Twitter Clone and Anti-Twitter
Dalton Caldwell is a San Francisco entrepreneur who founded iMeem (a music-centric social network which was bought and then shuttered by MySpace) and Picplz (which lost the iPhone photo-sharing war to Instagram). Back on July 1, …
Inside Facebook’s World
A visit to the social-networking giant’s amazing Silicon Valley campus.
Photos: Life at Facebook
Sights from Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus.
Photos: The Places Facebook Called Home
Twitter Political Index Measures Sentiment About Obama and Romney
Happiness and rage: Twitter has both.
After trying to figure out which tweets are positive and which are negative, such “sentiment data” is being used to reflect the public’s general mood about certain topics. If you’re mad or …
10 Unwritten Laws of Web Etiquette
You’re not even finished with the first of many cups of liquid motivation, when you take in a morning hit of Facebook. Uh-oh. Looks like John Doe has posted 45 new photos dedicated to his latest head shot photography session. …
Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products …
Babson Professor: Apple’s Crazy, Bing-like Attempt to Force People Everywhere to Act like American Teenagers Will Fail
Marty Anderson is a senior lecturer at Babson College, the noted business school in Wellesley, Mass. He’s a self-professed Apple fan. But he’s not impressed by Mountain Lion, the OS X upgrade that hit the Mac App Store …
Follow TIME on Stamped
The Internet is filled with people telling you what they like: overflowing Pinterest pages, endless Yelp lists, Facebook profiles packed with “Likes.” Stamped is a little more discerning.
Users get a limited number of stamps, …
Report Says People Are Happier with Google+ than They Are with Facebook
When it first arrived on the scene, Google+ was like the new rich kid at school, throwing its money around and inviting people to hyped-up things they weren’t really interested in.
Then, according to the American Customer …
Social Media and Sports Don’t Mix
Please – please! – resist the temptation to participate in social media until between innings.
This scene isn’t quite as bad as when Drew Barrymore’s character took a foul ball to the noggin in Fever Pitch, but it still …