12 hours ago

Delicious/kidguru Facebook has experienced tremendous growth in the number of users watching video on its site, putting it just behind YouTube and Hulu in October. Read this blog post by Don Reisinger on Webware. (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Dcrebekah from Google Reader: I don't have an especially outgoing personality, yet I generally have little problem approaching complete strangers when we're on bikes, talking with them and often enough shooting photos of them. I have little in common with many of the bike riders I see on Caltrain and the bus, but I know about their families, where they (Read More)

16 hours ago

Mashable! According to Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Meyer, Google is looking to streamline its search experience. Using a jazz metaphor, Meyer explains that customers aren’t happy with the fact that Google’s search interface is too unpredictable (much like jazz, especially if you aren’t into i (Read More)

1 day ago

mashable As you may have heard, Oprah is scheduled to announce during tomorrow’s show that she will end her talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in September 2011 to focus on her upcoming cable channel. The news came out earlier in the afternoon and it’s now spreading through Twitter at an astonishing rate.Not only does Oprah now do (Read More)

2 days ago

Mashable! Just a few weeks ago, one of the biggest changes to hit Twitter was launched: Twitter Lists. The feature has permeated every corner of Twitter, allowing you to curate lists of Twitter users that others can follow.Now Twitter is rolling out improvements to its Lists feature, starting with one that many Twitter users have be (Read More)

2 days ago

Mashable! AT&T may have lost the battle, but the war is not over. Of course we’re talking about all the hubbub over Verizon’s Map for That ads, which paint AT&T’s 3G network as inferior to Verizon’s.Verizon’s holiday ads stirred the pot even more, inflaming AT&T to file a lawsuit, which, as we found out earlier today, was not a succe (Read More)

2 days ago

Mashable! Cisco’s popular Flip camcorder has helped sparked a revolution in digital and online video. By making video recording quick and easy to record and upload, millions of random moments have been captured (and then summarily uploaded to YouTube).However, the Flip is getting some major challengers. Kodak’s Zi8 video camera boa (Read More)

1 day ago

Official Google Blog Since we first announced captions in Google Video and YouTube, we've introduced multiple caption tracks, improved search functionality and even automatic translation. Each of these features has had great personal significance to me, not only because I helped to design them, but also because I'm deaf. Today, I'm in Washingto (Read More)

1 day ago

mashable Until today Twitter officially prompted you to share the answer to the question, “What are you doing?” — which over time has become only one of the many ways users have chosen to create status updates. To address the diversity of use cases Twitter now sees, the company just changed the official question to, “What’s happenin (Read More)

1 day ago

Mashable! While Facebook’s userbase has been consistently growing for years, its monetary value has been less than consistent. Facebook stunned the world in October 2007 when a Microsoft investment valued the company at $15 Billion. The recession hit Facebook’s value hard though, dropping it all the way to $3.7 Billion in February o (Read More)

Apr 07, 2009

Twitter Blog The folks at Sprint have a new nationwide television ad running and they've included Twitter along with other services people use and depend on such as mobile phones, email, texting, and Google which is really cool for us. Even more fun is that they took the little blue bird that my long time collaborator on fun design and (Read More)

2 days ago

mashable Anyone following MySpace’s maneuvers in the past few months is aware of the talks to buy Imeem, the acquisition of iLike, and the implication-heavy partnership with Google on music search.Clearly, music is the perceived key to MySpace’s comeback. Today we have further proof of this notion in the form of a new beta product: (Read More)

3 days ago

Mashable! Who needs modern, new-fangled amenities like powerful processors and Adobe Air platforms when you can tweet right from Macintosh System 6? If tweeting from the command line just isn’t quite geeky enough for you, the Grackle68k Twitter client can have you sending status updates from your ancient old Mac.This is true no-frill (Read More)

3 days ago

mashable We’ve been covering the impending social integrations with Facebook, Twitter, and last.fm on Xbox Live since Microsoft first announced social networking support would be coming to the console back at E3 this June. If you’ve been waiting to check out social networking on your Xbox 360, today’s the day it’s rolling out to eve (Read More)

3 days ago

mashable About a month ago, Verizon started running ads that mocked AT&T’s 3G coverage and, needless to say, AT&T didn’t take it well, responding with a lawsuit and a request to have the ads pulled immediately. Last week, they publicly called the ads “blatantly false and misleading.”Now, Verizon’s responded, basically saying that A (Read More)

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