Have you visited Facebook in the last minute? So have 276,000 other people. How about watched a YouTube video? You joined an audience of 1.3 million. Tweeted about how much you have to get done today in so little time? So have 100,000 other people using Twitter. These numbers and more come form Intel, who […]
It appears that the social network LinkedIn is down at the moment. According to CNET, this is happening in spurts. In fact, in the middle of writing this article, the site came back up, but now looks to be down again. LinkedIn actually predates the term social network. Largely dismissed in the era of Facebook and Twitter, the site […]
From the random teen uploading six seconds of video to show what he’s LOLling about to Joss Whedon capturing a staccato video of his Much Ado About Nothing cast heading to SXSW, Vine has surprisingly and quickly captured people’s attention. The app, which allows you to instantly share six-second videos to Twitter and Facebook, only […]
Considering that Google has revamped the way people connect with the creation of both Gmail and Google Voice, there’s one major area where the company has had a failure to communicate. Google has tried standalone messaging clients with Google Talk and Google Messenger. Then there are the chat add-ons to other services, like Hangout and […]
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
Almost everyone has gotten used to seeing that little hashtag (#) in posts. Used on Twitter to denote a topic, the hashtag manages to show up elsewhere too. Maybe your friends cross post or maybe they’ve simply gotten used to using it. Facebook is betting on the latter. The Wall Street Journal alleges that the […]
Microsoft was everyone’s favorite Evil Empire, but now Google is earning that nickname. Every time the search giant shuts down a service, it garners new bad sentiment amongst its user base. It started with Google Wave, which never had a big user base to begin with. Google Wave’s demise was widely reported because it was touted […]
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been sitting at your computer today going “OhmigodOhmigodOhmigod IT’S HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!” “It” being a Veronica Mars movie. And I have to assume you know, because VM is the first Kickstarter to bring in $1 million dollars in a short four hours. Go! Donate! I’ve been waiting six years to find […]
There are a depressing number of non-Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) handsets in the wild, so it could be that many are unfamiliar with Google’s impressive virtual assistant, Google Now. While other virtual assistants require that you talk to them, Google Now passively collects data on you and learns a surprising amount. For example, opening Google Now on my recently […]
The past few days have been busy for ComiXology thanks to different developments at SXSW. In fact, it seems like they’ve been a bit too busy for the company to handle. First, ComiXology announced a new Submit program for aspiring comic book creators to self-publish through its platform. Then, among other announcements, Marvel broadcast that […]
