Hold your horses: Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief operating offer, has become Twitter’s CEO.
The new CEO, Costolo, is a former Google executive and Feedburner CEO. He was brought onto the Twitter team by former Twitter CEO Evan Williams himself, who says that he thought Costolo would be a “strong compliment” to himself. “During his year …
As an outage, it wasn’t as lengthy as Skype’s 2007 two-day disappearance. As a bug, it didn’t produce results as hilarious as the 2009 screwup that left Google identifying the entire Web as malware. But the Facebook glitch that left “many” users without access to the site for two and a half hours must rank among the Web’s bigger …
For most of its history, Twitter hasn’t exactly had a reputation for rushing headlong into major changes. Actually, the company has been remarkably conservative–for as long as people have been using the service to share photos, videos, maps, and other information, it’s been obvious that would be cool if you could see all that stuff …
Delta has announced that potential passengers may now begin booking flights through “Ticket Window” on Facebook. The Atlanta-based company says this will be the first of many Ticket Windows and plans to install banner ads that allow passengers to book from anywhere. This is a first for any airline and plans to revamp kiosks and …
VoIP provider Vonage announced the Vonage Mobile for Facebook app today that lets iPhone, iPad and Android owners make free calls to any of their Facebook friends and vice versa.
All you need to do to make free phone calls to other Vonage users is to download the Facebook app and/or mobile apps and start chatting away. Really, …
