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AuthorFoursquare Introduces ‘Super-Specific’ Search And Filter Options For iOS And Android To Help You Find New Venues
As Foursquare evolves, it wants to help you find either new places to check out or lead you to places where your friends have already been. Mixed in with that is recommendation technology to show you places that you might be interested in based on where you’ve been before. Today, Foursquare updated its iOS and … Continue Reading
Twitter Introduces Charts By Genre And Popularity For Its #Music Service
We’ve confirmed with Twitter that it has rolled out a new part of its #Music service for the web, charts that we were accustomed to from the company We Are Hunted, that it acquired and now powers the service. The charts are broken up into a few areas: the familiar genre breakdown, as well as … Continue Reading
Twitter Ups Web Security With Two-Factor Authentication Via SMS, But Shared Accounts May Still Be In Danger
After scores of accounts were potentially compromised a few months ago, Twitter today launched two-factor authentication through SMS to protect people from hacks and phishing scams on the web. Unfortunately, it may not help shared accounts like big brands and news agencies where multiple people need to be able to log in and out but only one … Continue Reading
Twitter Introduces Two-Step Authentication
Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to more securely protect accounts, the company announced Wednesday. The move comes after a number of hacks of high-profile Twitter accounts, including The Onion, the Associated Press and E! Online. Jim O’Leary from Twitter’s product security team announced the new feature via a blog post, saying it is in … Continue Reading
Urturn Raises $13.4M Series A, Led By Balderton, For Its Social Expressions Platform That Lets Teens Create Memes & Movements
Urturn, the social expressions platform that soft-launched as stealthily as possible last year by intentionally hiding under a really boring name, is getting ready to turn the volume up to 11 to start seriously recruiting teens and trend-setters to its meme-stuffed, fashion-friendly, music-loving platform. Today it has announced a $13.4 million Series A funding round, … Continue Reading
Giphy Gif Search Engine Rolls Out Private Artist Profiles To Help Organize, Monetize The Gif Community
Gifs, man! They’re trending harder than Jennifer Lawrence right now, but that doesn’t mean that finding them is the easiest thing in the world. That’s why Giphy, a startup that launched out of betaworks last month, is rolling out new tools to build out its library of awesome, high-quality gifs. See, Giphy is a gif … Continue Reading
Lessons for Silicon Valley on Capitol Hill
Drew Angerer for The New York Times Senators Orrin G. Hatch and Charles E. Schumer, who were central to the deal. There were two stark object lessons for the technology industry in Congress on Tuesday. One showed the power of influence. The other showed the power of the iPhone. In the Senate Judiciary Committee, the … Continue Reading
When to Back Off the Social Media Baby Train
We all have those Facebook friends who seem to make a living posting pictures and video clips of their kids. How cute is little Johnny eating a banana? Here’s Johnny at the playground going down the slide! Oh, poor Johnny is upset because mommy won’t give him another cookie. We get it, your kid is … Continue Reading
14 Twitter Tips and Tricks for Power Users
1. View Activity Feed Check out the activity feed to see how the people you follow are interacting on Twitter (besides their tweets). Click Discover Activity to see a stream of actions by those you’re following, including favorites, follows and more. It’ll remind you of Facebook’s News Feed, and it’s a great way to discover … Continue Reading
All I’ve Heard From My Family Since The Acquisition News Began
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services. Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand. To users, the Company provides owned and operated online properties and services (Yahoo! … Continue Reading
Rando’s 5M Anti-Social Photo Shares Could Be The Canary In The Social Networking Coalmine
Rando only launched in March but the anti-social photo-sharing app that deliberately eschews the standard social network clutter of likes and comments and connections – simply letting users share random photos with random strangers and get random snaps in return — has blasted past five million photo shares after a little over two months in the wild. … Continue Reading
Google+ Unveils Redesign for Mobile Web
Less than a week after Google+ unveiled a redesign for desktop, the social network is also getting overhauled on the mobile web. In a post on its official G+ page Tuesday, the service said that posts now appear as “cards” in the stream, making them easier to read, +1 and re-share. What’s more, Profiles and … Continue Reading
What to Do When Social Media Drives You Crazy
Is Social Media Anxiety Disorder, known as SMAD, the newest affliction resulting from our love affair with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites? Researchers have stopped short of actually classifying SMAD as a disorder, but it’s no doubt a problem. Sure, you could quit using your social sites altogether — but then you’d … Continue Reading
Producteev’s Social Task Manager Now Free And Enterprise-Ready As It Preps For Full Jive Integration Later This Year
In November, Jive Software acquired Bay Area cloud-based, collaborative task manager, Producteev, to boost its social business platform. Going forward, as Alex wrote at the time, Salesforce.com and Jive will increasingly butt heads as they compete for mindshare in the enterprise. With Producteev’s multi-platform task-management system, which allows users to create tasks from emails and … Continue Reading
OK Go’s Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile Game
OK Go (the band behind hit music videos like “This Too Shall Pass” and “Here It Goes Again”) launched its very own game for iOS and Android earlier this month. You can play the game, titled Say The Same Thing, with one of your friends or with a randomly chosen player. (If you sign up … Continue Reading
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