Posts Tagged ‘World Wide Web’

2.7 Million Facebook Users Support Marriage Equality

On Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
600308_10100880181895236_172523155_n Reportedly around 2.7 million Facebook users have changed their profile pictures to pink equal signs with a red background in order to show support for marriage equality. The Human Rights Campaign started this viral trend last Monday. They requested that supporters of the cause change their profile picture to the pink and red image in ...

IDC Survey Reveals Social Media and Facebook Addiction

On Friday, March 29th, 2013
Facebook social media A couple of days ago the IDC (International Data Corporation) released a Facebook addiction sponsored survey that examined the activities of smartphone users in an attempt to demonstrate just how important social media has become in peoples every day lives. The online survey was administered for one week earlier this month amongst 7,446 people that ...

Social Media Wars: Google+ and Facebook Updates!

On Thursday, March 28th, 2013
co-mag_google_plus_facebook   Google+ and Facebook have both announced updates to their social media sites this week. Google+ is now allowing users to use GIFs (fancy acronym for those cool moving images you see everywhere) as profile pictures and even has a link on the Google+ webpage showing users how to make a GIF.  Matt Steiner who ...

YouTube Will Launch Music Subscription Service

On Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
youtube music Google’s YouTube is planning a new service for music subscription. This new service will not be connected with the Google Play subscription service. The rumor comes from Fortune, but Google did not confirm the news, although the company did release the following message: Google said it doesn’t comment rumors, but it is looking into the benefits ...

Google Project Glass Video Revealed: What You Can Do With It

On Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Google Project Glass The new released Google Project Glass video is showing us what it will be like to use and wear their new and amazing gadget. These internet connected eyeglasses offer features similar to a powerful smartphone like taking pictures, answering and making calls, replying to emails, checking the weather, performing online searches or receiving specific GPS directions. ...

Twitter Lets You Search Old Tweets Now

On Friday, February 8th, 2013
twitter_1857381b Until now we were able only to search tweets no older than a week. Twitter announced today the plan to enable people to search old tweets. Not all the tweets will be kept for the beginning; for the moment those to be kept will be determined by clicks, retweets and other factors, according to the ...

3 Ways Social Media Failed for Businesses

On Monday, February 4th, 2013
Social Media 3d Sphere Social media. It’s a huge phrase on the internet. It carries a lot of weight. Look at some of the numbers: Over 1.06 billion active Facebook accounts. Over 400 million Google+ accounts. 36% of global internet users have a Twitter account. Also, you might be surprised to learn that 78% of US marketers plan to ...

Crunchies Winners: GitHub Wins Best Startup Overall

On Friday, February 1st, 2013
crunchies-hosts-2011 The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show has ended with TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat handing out 20 awards to the best startups, founders and venture capitalists. The big winner of the 2012 Crunchies is the GitHub, which is the Best Startup overall. Congratulations to all the winners: Best Technology Achievement (2011 winner: Siri) Mars Curiosity – ...

New MySpace Relaunched With the Help of Justin Timberlake

On Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
New MySpace The new MySpace site has launched to the public, and Justin Timberlake, which is the social network’s co-owner, is helping build it.  The completely redesigned social network is now open to the public, allowing anyone to sign-up for an account, create a profile and start experimenting the new features. It coincided with the release of ...

SellSimple App Helps You Sell Everywhere in Under a Minute

On Saturday, January 5th, 2013
sellsimple application The popular service SellSimple has launched its iOS app, which will help you sell any item across several popular marketplaces like Craigslist, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, and the other SellSimple marketplaces. The main idea is to increase the chances of an item being sold. The SellSimple app is the creation of Kelian Suaya and Julian ...

100 Social Networking Statistics and Facts for 2012 (INFOGRAPHIC)

On Friday, January 4th, 2013
100 Social Networking Statistics Each day Facebook users spend 10.5 Billion minutes, about 20,000 years, on this social network, 58% of them return daily, there are added 250 million photos daily and over 500 million likes. Oh…and 1 out of every 7 minutes spent online is spent on…Facebook! Google+ comes in second with 75 million daily users, Linkedin has ...

Randi Zuckerberg Having a Facebook Freakout Over Photo Going Viral

On Saturday, December 29th, 2012
randi zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, Randi, got stymied by Facebook’s privacy policy this week when a photo she posted for her friends was shared publicly over Twitter. Twitter user @cshweitz shared a photo of the Zuckerberg family checking out Poke, the latest mobile app developed by Facebook, early Wednesday. Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a ...


First Song Recorded in Space (LISTEN)

On Friday, December 28th, 2012
earth While we Earthlings went about our business and celebrated Xmas here on planet Earth, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station in orbit enjoyed their own brand of Xmas celebrating. Astronauts have tweeted photos from space. Now, they’re sending back music, too. Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut, has just accomplished one of those firsts. He’s recorded a song, ...

Facebook Internships Probably Worth More Money Than Your Job

On Saturday, December 15th, 2012
Facebook internships   According to a new report, interns at the social network earn $25,000 more than the average American. Citing salary information collected by Glassdoor.com’s Employee Choice Awards, Business Insider reports that Facebook pays interns about $5,602 every month. The company’s interns make between $5,600 and $6,300 per month, the equivalent of $65,000 to $75,000 per ...