Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters in Palo Alto on Wednesday, July 6th. It’s invite-only, but I’m among the invited, and I’m inviting you to attend our live coverage, starting at 1pm ET. I’ll blog the news as we learn it, right here and at technologizer.com/facebookevent.
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The voyeurs of social media would have you believe that people want to connect with other people on an instinctive level, that humans are purely social animals. And who can prove them wrong? Mark Zuckerberg and his peer wunderkind have built the framework to our digital connections and we’re lured in again and again. We fill them with …
You work, right? And are you on the Facebook? Seems everyone’s on the Facebook. That thing’s probably going to “make it” in the tech world.
Your superiors may not appreciate you spending company time on Facebook, preferring instead that you buckle down and churn through those spreadsheets. But what if you’ve already churned through …
The Federal Trade Commission has begun investigating Twitter’s business practices, specifically its acquisition of third party developers, Business Insider reports today. Details are sketchy at this point, but it seems like the case to be made is that Twitter is seeking to monopolize the platform it created and already owns.
Yes, …
At 3:54 PM on Tuesday afternoon, I received an e-mail telling me that my friend Hope was “hanging out.” Having no idea what this meant—and being at work and therefore in no position to go “hang out” with her—I ignored both the e-mail and the novel “(Google+)” label next to her name. Surely this was another of those Google …
Oooh, things might start getting interesting around here. That’s because for the first time, Google’s thrown down a real social networking contender with Google+. Facebook finally might have gotten its first real rival.
Forget Buzz. Forget Wave. I almost even forgot what Google Wave was called. While my first impressions of …
Myspace has been purchased by an advertising outfit called Specific Media to the tune of $35 million, reports All Things D.
The once-ubiquitous social networking site was acquired by News Corp. back in 2005 for $580 million, with All Things D adding that the $35 million sale price “is well below the $100 million that News Corp. had …
Two of Twitter’s co-founders have announced plans to restart the creative ideas company that incubated Twitter in the first place: “Obvious.”
Their stated aim: “To geek around and invent stuff and be like techno superheroes.”
Oh no, my mistake. Their actual stated aim: “We make systems that help people work together to improve the …
Google just threw down the digital gauntlet, right in front of Facebook’s feet, with the announcement of a new social sharing site called Google+.
The site is invite-only at the moment (cue hundreds of “Can anyone spare me a Plus invite?” requests on Twitter), so for those who can’t get inside, the basic premise is this: Plus lets you …
Less than one year after Facebook’s big 500 million user milestone, the social network is still piling on more users.
A source close to the company tells TechCrunch that Facebook’s user count has just passed 750 million. Facebook won’t officially confirm the number, probably because it’s waiting for 1 billion users before it makes …
The commercialization of Twitter is going to mean advert tweets appearing in users’ timelines, according to the Financial Times.
Given the hoo-ha when the company added the “QuickBar” to timelines viewed via its iOS app, see if you can imagine how much of a stink putting ads in the timeline would cause. One helluva one.
It was a clash of theatrical proportions (it even had a theatrical analogue) with dizzying amounts of coin at stake, but are you ready for the twist ending? Surprise, it turns out the Winklevoss twins (Cameron and Tyler) along with their business partner Divya Narendra are still nipping at Facebook’s heels.
The twins announced on …
