Last month, Sean Parker of Napster fame launched Airtime.
Amid the hoopla of the launch — attended, for some reason, by Jimmy Fallon and Snoop Dogg — Parker told an anecdote about meeting his business partner, Shawn …
Social Networking
Facebook Finally Lets You Edit Your Comments
We’ve all typed things on Facebook that we regret. Over-the-top angry responses to shared political articles. Weirdly inappropriate comments under a friend’s photo. Typo-ridden exclamations under a big announcement.
Before, …
Flipboard Launches Android Version of Its Popular News Reading App
Good news, Android users. Flipboard has officially made its reader app available in Google Play.
What is Flipboard? Ask someone with an iPhone — nearly 1 million of them downloaded the app after its first week of release, …
Klout: A Good Idea Done Wrong?
Apparently not deterred by the outcry the last time Klout changed its algorithm, the company’s CEO Joe Fernandez announced at LeWeb London ’12 that Klout is planning to “expand how it monitors its users’ reach by measuring how …
Google+ Has a Games Problem
Long before the launch of Google+, there was a recurring rumor that Google would get into social games in a big way. The company invested more than $100 million in Zynga, and was reportedly planning to use games as an anchor …
I Visit the U.S. Open: A Day of Golf, and No Tech
I can’t claim to be a serious golf fan–or, really, a golf fan at all–but for the past four years, I’ve been looking forward to attending this year’s U.S. Open at San Francisco‘s historic Olympic Club.
That’s because my wife …
10 Things You Should Tweet
There’s no magic formula for how to use Twitter to promote your business. But here are a few things to try.
New ‘Youface’ Social Network Might Remind You of Something
How do you create a social network to compete with Facebook? Easy, just make a crude clone of it and call it Youface. That’s what Ayub Abdulloh did in Uzbekistan.
According to Radio Free Europe, he didn’t seem too bothered by …
Clipboard: A Slick New Way to Save and Share the Web
Facebook Phone Rumored Again, but Fundamental Questions Remain
Facebook is working on its own smartphone — no, seriously this time.
The New York Times reports that Facebook intends to launch a phone by next year, citing unnamed Facebook employees, engineers that the company sought to …
The Best Social Networks for Kids Under 13
It’s no secret that social networking is a large part of our culture. Facebook and other social networking sites have minimum age requirements that some kids get around by lying about the year they were born. Parents must be …
Video: A Brief History of Facebook
As the big IPO looms, here’s a whirlwind tour of Facebook’s highlights and lowlights from 2004 to the present day (in just under two and a half minutes).