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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kim Dotcom is all set to launch his MegaUpload replacement, Mega, next month. Dotcom tweeted last night that the press conference at his New Zealand mansion will be “like no other.” He wrote, “You know me. I can’t do small.” This will happen on January 20. To give an idea of taste and extravagance of ...
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, ...
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 ...
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