Despite yesterday’s official announcement of Google+’s API, a few voices across the web have been quick to point out the honeymoon period with the social network is probably over.
But from what I’m seeing in my G+ Stream, it seems that the popular Hangout feature is alive and well. It doesn’t exactly take a rocket scientist to figure …
Facebook continues to refine the level of control granted to users over their News Feed. The social network’s newest feature, Subscriptions, functions similarly to the way you can follow people on Twitter, but with a few notable differences.
The new subscriptions service adds another layer to Facebook’s relationship hierarchy, which …
Whoa, boy: Facebook surprised us all this afternoon when they announced on their blog that they were adding a whole bunch of improvements to your friends lists: automatically generated “smart lists,” the ability to separate people into “close friends” and “acquaintances,” and a better suggestions mechanism with the ability to control who …
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss star in an ad for pistachios. The twins, you may recall, had been trying to sue Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg out of his casual jeans, ironic t-shirt and Adidas sandals for quite some time, claiming that he stole their idea. Someone made a movie about it!
And where there’s movies, there’s TV. And where …
Correction 9/7/11: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the BSA survey found the United States to have the world’s highest piracy rate rather than China. The appropriate changes have been made to reflect this.
According to a new survey conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), 47% of the world’s PC users …
Once again, Google is scrambling to fix one of its services in the wake of negative publicity. This time, the bad apple is Google Places, a directory of local businesses that runs largely on user input.
As the New York Times reports, some unscrupulous businesses have been marking their competitors as permanently closed. This is fairly …
Late last week MG Siegler of TechCrunch posted a detailed account of Amazon’s mythical tablet, which many had hoped would finally pose serious competition to Apple and their iPad crown.
Of note is that the tablet appears to be a 7-incher running Android, thus closer to the Nook or even the BlackBerry Playbook than an actual iPad. …
The White House yesterday unveiled plans for a new online petition system called “We the People.” Using the new service at whitehouse.gov, citizens will be able to create petitions and use email and social media to gather support. If a petition gathers enough support, it will be reviewed and answered by White House policy staff (see …
“Given that the full database file is downloadable from hundreds of sites there is only one internally rational action.”
That’s one of the updates from WikiLeaks’ Twitter account this week, alluding to the organization’s recent spat with U.K. newspaper the Guardian, which published a WikiLeaks-related book back in February that …
FOLLOW-UP: WikiLeaks has published 250,000+ U.S. Embassy cables to a searchable online database…
As the story goes, some 100,000 or more secret U.S. diplomatic cables found their way onto the internet recently—the cables had been rounded up by none other than WikiLeaks, the non-profit, secret-leaking organization with the simple
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Google’s almighty search algorithm is one of our generation’s most heavily guarded secrets. Like the recipe for Coke before it, it’s been instrumental to the company’s ongoing success, even in the wake of a growing number of competitors like Bing or a favorite around here, Duck Duck Go.
That’s not to say that the algorithm’s perfect. …
Last week we reported that Facebook was set to give its privacy pages a much needed facelift.
Its goal? To better streamline the controls granted to users over who can and can’t see their content. Previously Facebook users had to navigate through an unclear array of menus to get to their privacy settings. Now, that control is inline …
