In a post on his Guardian blog, Martin Robbins admonishes some flimsy science in an article from the Daily Mail. The title of the article in question pretty much says it all: “Facebook and Twitter are creating a vain generation of self-obsessed people with child-like need for feedback, warns top scientist.”
The article posits that …
Buckle up, we may be entering the first slump in what could turn out to be a bumpy growth ride for Google+, Google’s slim and scrappy social-networking response to Facebook. According to analytics firm Experian Hitwise, the average time users spent on the fledgling service fell last week in the U.S.
Time to sound a collective ruh-roh? …
According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The VPPA – passed in 1988, following an alt-weekly’s publishing of Supreme Court …
Remember Zuck’s “awesome” announcement that had lots of us expecting Facebook to announce their official iPad app? If you don’t, that’s okay: The Skype integration was seen by lots of people as decidedly ho-hum.
In case you haven’t heard yet (with a hat tip to MG Siegler at TechCrunch), the sleek new iPad app was found in a line of …
Facebook has been exceptionally restrictive when it comes to interfacing with Google, from privatizing search to its non-allowance of friend importing to Google+. Simply put: There isn’t much cross pollination between the two web companies, which, at times, can be a bit of a pain for users.
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From zero to 20 million unique visitors in 21 days or just three weeks time, that’s what web-tracker ComScore says Google’s new Google+ social networking service can lay claim to. Of those 20 million clicks, ComScore says five million or 25% came from the U.S.
Before anyone gets too excited, note I typed “visitors,” not “members.” …
Here’s a quick look at the new “Facebook phone”—also known as the HTC Status, available through AT&T for $50 with a two-year contract.
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If you’re thinking about advertising on Facebook, you should probably get that sorted out soon. According to the Financial Times, the price of advertising on Mark Zuckerberg’s social network has risen 74% over the past year, with costs continuing to escalate as big brands take their ads online.
The 74% rise is in cost-per-click, …
NBC announced today that Meet the Press will team up with Facebook to host the final GOP primary debate before the New Hampshire primaries.
The event will take place at 9 a.m. ET in the Chubb Theatre at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, and air live on MSNBC and New England Cable News (NECN). It will also be streamed …
Well, I guess Zuckerberg wasn’t too smitten, even if he has the most Google+ followers. Next time, Google should throw in some freebies to win over the CEO, like a lollipop. Or a pizza. I would like a pizza right now.
Michael Lee Johnson, an app developer, decided to take the bull by the horns and signed up for an advertising spot …
The fears of a generation have been confirmed, as a new survey reveals that more than 50% of parents use social media as a way of spying on their children—and that even more would do so if they knew how.
The survey of 2,000 British parents, carried out by OnePoll, found that 55% of respondents use social media to track their kids’ …
If I had a nickel for every time I got pitched an “exciting new photo sharing app!” I’d have something like 40 cents. Maybe 35. Still, photo sharing is a really crowded space, one that’s currently being dominated by the likes of Instagram, which recently charted just over 5 million users accounting for over 95 million pictures …
