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GigaOM And paidContent Join Forces
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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong presence on the East and West coasts and in Europe, and coverage of everything from media and big data, to the cloud and mobile, to book publishing...
Big Question (Answered): "Do You Have Too Many Facebook Friends?"
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Every day I jump onto Facebook for my work, but honestly, I never use it as it was intended. If you send me a message or like my status, I might engage, but I never reach out to folks. My stream is full of interesting content about people I don't...
FYI. Dave Morin Didn’t Lie To Gawker About Path Storing User Data
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Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad … Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Morin, publishing an email where he assured writer Ryan Tate that Path wasn’t storing...
Bump Narrows Down Product to Contacts and Photos
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Bump was first known as that nifty way to digitally share contacts by physically bumping smartphones together. Over the last three years, it also became an app for sharing photos, other apps, calendars and songs. No longer. Bump is making some dramatic cuts to reduce confusion in its product and...
Path’s CEO apologizes, newest update lets you opt in or out
9to5mac.com
Most of the web went nuts yesterday, when blogger Arun Thampi discovered that when first registering for Path, the app sends each one of your contacts in your address book to their server via a. plist. The .plist includes full names, phone numbers, and e-mails. Path never asked to opt in for the...
Mobile Could Be What Makes Private Social Networks Succeed
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Photos, location, professional networking, or all your real-life friends… Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Facebook lead social networking today because they’ve found existing the types of networks to connect users around. Now a new generation of startups has been showing up in recent months, trying to nail another type of networking...
VIDEO: A private Path to your close friends
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Path CEO Dave Morin discusses his new social network and the trouble it has faced when gathering personal data....
BlackBerry Music Gateway hands-on (video)
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The music streaming accessory market is immensely saturated, but RIM is hoping to add its own flavor with its latest version of the BlackBerry Music Gateway. We took a brief look at this year's BlackBerry World in Orlando, and were impressed by both its size and ease of use....
Path unveils 2.5: Larger photos, movie sharing, and a 'nudge'
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Social-networking app for family and close friends adds new sharing features to Android and iPhone apps. [Read more]...
Friend Manager lets you drag and drop your Facebook friends into different categories
thenextweb.com
One of the most difficult parts about using Facebook is knowing exactly who is going to see the things that you post on your profile. It’s not the most user-friendly experience, but luckily we now have an app for that. Friend Manager comes via former Blip.tv CEO and current Facebook...
Apple tried but failed to poach freshly minted Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside
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With Google’s $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility finally completed, a new report has brought to light the fact that Apple, one of its biggest rivals, tried to lure away Google executive Dennis Woodside, who was just named as Motorola’s new CEO. Citing two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg Businessweek...
Google+ gives you a few more reasons to Hangout, put mustaches on things
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So you've started a Hangout on Google+ with some pals. Now what? Are you just going to sit around and talk? Thanks to some new additions to the social network, you don't have to rely solely on your conversational skills anymore. The software company announced today the addition of...
Polyglot Path: Mobile Sharing App Adds 7 New Languages Including Traditional Chinese, UK English
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In response to Facebook’s ever-expanding social universe and the success of mobile-focused networks like Instagram, Dave Morin and company have turned Path into a more personal, mobile-centric social network. Most of the life-sharing that happens on Path takes place at home — among friends and close friends. And while some...
A life online: 'For my generation it's just normal, you get up and check Facebook'
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Rosie Hickland, 17, is a studentRosie Hickland started playing games online aged about six. "To me it just seemed a lot more fun than playing with my dolls – it was more grown up and there was more to play with," she said. By the time she was nine she...
Daily email service Timehop now includes the text messages you sent last year
thenextweb.com
My favorite service on the Web right now has to be Timehop. The premise is simple, the service sends you daily emails about all of your social activities that happened the year before. I look forward to waking up to my Timehop email, which includes tweets, Facebook updates, Instagram photos...
I'm nearly 30 - am I running out of time to make new friends? | Bim Adewunmi
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A recent article suggests the period for making BFFS the way you did in your teens and 20s is over - so have I accumulated the right kinds of friends?Once, after spending four straight days alone in my flat, communicating only with an editor (via email) and myself (via the bathroom...
Find My Facebook Friends puts your curated friend lists to work to share your location
thenextweb.com
There are some potential usages for location sharing that aren’t creepy in the ways that I’ve described previously. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of discovery, but for location sharing purposes, I still feel like it’s something that you should explicitly share with only a small subset of people....
Bot problem? Facebook estimates 8.7% of users are duplicate, miscategorized or spam accounts
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook says 8.7 percent of its monthly active user total might violate terms of service and be either duplicate, miscategorized or “undesirable” accounts meant for spamming, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In its quarterly report, Facebook provided updated numbers and new details about illegitimate accounts,...
Sugar Acquires Social Network And Community For Mothers Circle Of Moms
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Sugar Inc., a media company that caters exclusively to women, is acquiring San Francisco-based Circle of Moms, a social network and online communityfor moms and moms-to-be. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Originally launched on Facebook in 2008, Circle Of Moms has a community of around 6 million...
Facebook tries new prompts to encourage users to organize friends into lists
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook now displays sidebar modules that encourage users to add friends to a “close friends” list and prompts users to add to their “acquaintances” list after they mark News Feed items as spam. These two new features suggest that Facebook wants to emphasize friend lists as a means for improving...
Steve Jobs Still Looms Large
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Steven P. Jobs died nearly eight months ago, but the technology industry is not ready to let him go. At a technology conference where he frequently spoke, his close friends and those whose lives intersected with his, spoke of him fondly....
25 Things You Need To Know To Get The Most Out Of Facebook (FB)
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Facebook is a useful tool. The social network helps you to keep up with popular events, share photos, and stay in touch with your friends and family. But it can also be insanely confusing for the Facebook newbie. We put together a bunch of tips and tricks that'll help you...
Why I’ll let my daughter shape her own digital identity
gigaom.com
To my daughter, It’s 2023, and here you are, 13 years old and finally ready for your own Facebook page (assuming that Facebook still exists and hasn’t changed its policies)! I’m sorry if my decision not to digitally document your life up to this point somehow makes it tougher for...
The Weather Channel integrates Facebook to alert website visitors about severe weather that may affect friends
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The Weather Channel added Facebook integration to its website today that will let visitors know about any severe weather that might be affecting their friends in other locations. When visitors connect with Facebook, The Weather Channel will indicate which friends live in areas that are currently at risk for hurricanes, tornadoes,...
The Weather Channel integrates Facebook to alert website visitors about severe weather that may affect friends
Fast Talk: With Meeteor, Facebook-Stalk For The Job You Want
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Meet Chris Lee, cofounder of Meeteor, which leverages Facebook as a networking tool. Here's how to access "the network you may not even know you have."Chris Lee is the cofounder of the Seattle-based Meeteor, which scours your social graph in search of second- and third-degree connections to people who might...
The (dis)Connected World, Pt. 1
pandodaily.com
It was an all too familiar scene. I looked around the table at my lunch companions and realized that I was actually eating alone. Every one of them was enthralled by whatever was happening on their cell phone screens, ignoring the people at the table. Was the online world of...
Why Path is holding out on ads for now
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The young social network is growing and adding new partners but holding off on letting advertisers in. Here's why. By Richard Nieva, contributor FORTUNE -- Path, an app billed as the social network for close friends and family, announced a bevy of new features last week, including an integration with...
Facebook Is Trying To Copy Path—It's Just Not Doing A Very Good Job Yet (FB)
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A Facebook executive just came out and admitted it: His company is trying to copy Path, the mobile social network started by former Facebooker Dave Morin. "There’s a lot of people in Menlo Park who like to use [Path],” Facebook's Henri Moissinac said at Le Web London, a conference currently...
How OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman 'Grew Up' And Became A Multi-Millionaire
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On Saturday, Charles Forman turned 32. He celebrated the evening with close friends in New York City including Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon and OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter. Part of him thought that's why he had been called to New York for an emergency trip. His friends were luring him...
Facebook, Twitter Compete For Social Gold At The Olympics
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Facebook's new Olympics deal treads on territory long held by Twitter. But will it be enough to stake its claim on the second screen?Long before the crack of a single starter pistol, fierce competition for second screen domination is raging at the London Olympics. And Facebook is edging into Twitter's...
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