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In 50 years, your grand kids won’t want to hear you babble on about Twitter
thenextweb.com
In 50 years, will things that matter to us so much today — Tweets, LOL cats, Facebook statuses – retain their cachet? Created for the launch of Social Media Week 2012 with Entrinsic, this video captures interviews with “octogenarian hipsters” as they take a look back on what social media and digital culture...
Facebook May Be Worth $100B, But What Are You Worth To Facebook?
techcrunch.com
It’s almost here. The big day. Can you feel the excitement? Yes, if all goes according to plan on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg will ring the Nasdaq bell in a hoodie, the big blue social network will go forward with one of the largest IPOs for an internet company in history,...
Hacker Posts Hilarious, Offensive Messages From Seven MLB Teams' Facebook Pages
techcrunch.com
Facebook pages for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, and Washington Nationals were hacked today, as someone updated the teams statuses to a variety of funny (or offensive–or both!) messages. For the Chicago Cubs, the message was, “Fuck Bill Murray.” The...
iOS 6 to Add Safari iCloud Tabs, VIP Mail Recipients, 'Do Not Disturb' Mode?
www.macrumors.com
Back in March, we noted that Apple had activated Safari tab syncing through iCloud in OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2, with the feature designed to allow users to sync open browser tabs across Macs and presumably iOS devices. Now in a new report from 9to5Mac outlining several OS...
RIM teases revamped BBM service, includes updated Twitter, Facebook, Travel, Music and App World apps
thenextweb.com
Whilst RIM is flagging in domestic and western markets, one of its jewels remains its BlackBerry Messenger service, which has slowly and surely growing to include an increasing number of social and connected BlackBerry apps. Today, the company has announced that Facebook for BlackBerry, Twitter for BlackBerry, BlackBerry Travel, its BlackBerry...
RIM teases revamped BBM service, includes updated Twitter, Facebook, Travel, Music and App World apps
Study shows how much information Facebook can mine just from relationship status changes
thenextweb.com
Facebook’s data team has released some information which gives a little bit of insight into how relationships change with the seasons. Looking at the Facebook data of US users from 2010 and 2011, the study tracks changes to relationship statuses over time. The post reads: “We started by tabulating the changes...
This site knows exactly what you’re doing, thanks to public Facebook and Foursquare data
thenextweb.com
We post Facebook statuses about everything these days…at least I know that I do. Aggregating these statuses for any purpose can be fun, and someone took it to a whole new level by tattle tailing on those who are tweeting about sensitive subjects. A site called “We Know What You’re...
EXCLUSIVE: Google+ gets new feature to selectively pull in other-network updates
venturebeat.com
Googler Louis Gray just told us about a new Google+ feature. Called Google+ History, it will allow you to add updates to you personal timeline from a variety of social and mobile services. This feature wasn’t included in the Google+ update announcements at Google I/O, the company’s developer conference...
Banjo Location App Takes You to the Olympics From Anywhere in the World
allthingsd.com
Banjo is a mobile social discovery app that aggregates photos, statuses and tweets tagged with locations. That’s great and all, but how many people really have that many friends who even post location-tagged updates? And how often do you want to receive random pings from strangers who saw you just...
iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak to be released in the coming days, likely to be called Absinthe 2.0
9to5mac.com
Ever since the release of iOS 5.1.1, many in the jailbreak community have been anxiously waiting for the destined release of an untethered jailbreak for the new software. Non other than the prolific pod2g has been working tirelessly to comfort those in need, and according to pod2g himself, the...
Post smug vacation statuses on Facebook, get your house burgled
arstechnica.com
Maybe think twice before bragging about your vacation on Facebook, complete with sun-and-sand photos, lest your shadier friends or members of the general public decide to burgle your house. Two Facebook users in Anderson County, South Carolina were arrested Sunday for using Facebook to find out which of their friends...
SmartSync Releases New Version Of The App That Turns You Into A God
techcrunch.com
SmartSync, which has been doing good business on iPhone app store [itunes link], has released an updated version which a big improvement on the original app, which has become popular because it makes you sound like some sort of omnipresent god. No, I got that wrong. Let’s try that again....
Facebook Paid Status Promotion Platform Is Official
www.pcworld.com
Facebook’s paid status promotion platform is live, highlights your statuses to subscribers and fans....
Facebook Knows What You're Doing (Even If You Don't)
www.readwriteweb.com
If you think a site that pulls your Facebook status updates and FourSquare check-ins to tell the world if you’re hungover, doing drugs or looking to get fired is unsettling, consider this: It’s fairly simplistic when compared to what social networks will one day be able to figure out based on what you choose to broadcast...
My Xbox Live update for iPhone brings direct remote control, Android users join the party too
www.engadget.com
As much as we liked the My Xbox Live app on iOS, it left out any practical control of a real, live Xbox 360 -- and left Android users in the cold. The 1.5 update to the app puts those issues largely to bed. iPhone and iPod touch owners...
Huge: New Path users can import all their Facebook statuses, Instagram photos and Foursquare check-ins
thenextweb.com
So here’s an epic Path easter egg that we bet you didn’t know about. If you sign up with a new account, using a different email address, and attach your Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare accounts, all of your status updates, photos and check-ins will be pulled into Path. I told...
Huge: New Path users can import all their Facebook statuses, Instagram photos and Foursquare check-ins
Who's Winning The Battle For The Interest Graph: Facebook, Google+ or Twitter?
www.readwriteweb.com
Do you use Google+ more than Facebook? Are you an avid Twitter user, but not so active on Google+? Do you auto-share online media, such as songs or news articles, onto Facebook? These are just some of the questions being asked in the ongoing evolution of the "Interest Graph," succinctly...
So Is Path Worth $1 Billion, Too?
www.readwriteweb.com
On February 1, at the peak of the frenzy over Facebook's announcement that it would go public, Path announced a photo effect called Depth. It was a brash display of public relations. Not only was Path upstaging Facebook's mobile offerings, its new feature meant that it now had Instagram's exact...
Some 18 Year Old Made A Site That's Going To Get People Fired For Using Facebook
www.businessinsider.com
Warning! There is a Web site called 'We Know What You're Doing' and it is terrifying. It takes public, embarrassing Facebook statuses re-publishes them in a way that might just get some people fired, arrested, or stalked. For example, one of the first status updates we saw on the site...
Apple making changes to its online store for educators
venturebeat.com
Apple may be making improvements to its online store, but it seems the changes will only be for its education customers. According to Apple Insider, the company has posted a notice on its K-12 educators website explaining that a new e-commerce store is in the works. The notice, which...
Boot up: more on Nexus 7, 800m smart devices, Silicon Valley's lost values and more
www.guardian.co.uk
Plus the Nexus Q's odd incompatibility, Google+ gets some API goodness, and moreA quick burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamEXCLUSIVE: Google+ History API will bring in your past updates from around the web >> VentureBeatStop the dadgum presses! Googler Louis Gray...
One Day After IPO Mark Zuckerberg Marries Long Time Girlfriend Priscilla Chan
marketingland.com
On Friday Mark Zuckerberg posted one of his most important statuses ever as he posted: “listed a company on NASDAQ.” On Saturday, the day after Facebook’s IPO, Mark Zuckerberg may have topped it, at least personally. One that was simply a relationship change alerting the world... Please visit Marketing Land...
Zynga to Launch Cross-Platform Gaming Network, "Zynga With Friends"
allthingsd.com
Zynga’s game playing network is massive — more than 290 million people play the company’s games each month. The problem is, Zynga says, those players are scattered across multiple devices and platforms, and can’t always sync up to play the same games. Zynga aims to change this. At the company’s...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explains why Facebook is pro-gay
venturebeat.com
At the GLAAD Media Awards last weekend, Facebook was recognized for its support and protection of the LGBT community over the past couple years. But why, you ask, would an ostensibly neutral, public platform want to support and protect any group of users, especially ones in such a controversial...
Who is the best Avenger? (infographic)
venturebeat.com
Marvel’s The Avengers film is officially a success, not just at the global box office but also with fans and non-fans alike. That’s what happens when you hire Joss Whedon instead of [insert the name of any guy who directed Resident Evil, Max Payne, Resident Evil 2, Catwoman, Resident...
Fox movies finally available for re-download in iTunes in the Cloud
9to5mac.com
Tipsters are writing in saying that 20th Century Fox movies are showing up in their purchased movie accounts ready for redownloading over iCloud. Sure enough, Fox’s Horton Hears a Who is right there on my kid’s iTunes account. When Apple launched iCloud two different studios, both Fox and Universal...
Social network login statuses of site visitors revealed by loophole
www.theverge.com
SEO analyst Tom Anthony has devised a way to work out whether or not visitors to his site are logged into Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or regular Google. Facebook has an API for this, but the trick works with Twitter and Google+ by checking for login redirects. You can try...
The Internet…sorry…Twitter, is currently down
thenextweb.com
How does the song go? Oh yeah, “You don’t know what you’ve got til’ it’s gone.” It seems like Twitter is experiencing some downtime right now and if you’re a geek like us, you’re probably seeing Google+ and Facebook statuses reflecting that fact. As of right now, Twitter hasn’t been...
How Tumblr went from wee to webscale
gigaom.com
Tumblr, the popular microblogging service is hitting 500 million page views a day, deals with 40,000 requests per second and sends more than a terabyte of data into its Hadoop cluster per day. But it wasn’t always a superhot startup that needed to serve 15 billion page views of a...
Tweetbot 2.3 for iPhone and iPad adds gestures, Storify upload, Droplr support
www.theverge.com
Tweetbot 2.3 for iPhone and iPad has just landed in the App Store, and includes various improvements like instant Storify upload for conversations, a brand new tweet detail view (pictured), a new gesture for returning to the previous screen, Droplr support, and higher-res image uploads over Wi-Fi. The update...
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