 
MG Siegler
/
TechCrunch
Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...
discussions
related items
|
Readwriteweb
/
ReadWriteWeb
5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know
—
During my career as a Web strategy consultant I've often had people ask me, "How do I do social media?" Unfortunately the answer isn't simple. But the first step is the same as if you developing any other marketing strategy: know your market. To "know your market" in the old days you needed a $15,000 qualitative market research study that would ...
|
|
Readwriteweb
/
ReadWriteWeb
List.it: Post-It Notes for the Twitter Generation
—
While furiously trying to organize my digital life this past weekend, I found myself as I often do - with an obscene number of tabs open at the same time while hopping from thought to thought. It was in the middle of this confusing mess that I came across list.it , the self-described "simple, free, open-source note-keeping tool to help you ...
|
Jason Kincaid
/
TechCrunch
I'm here at the Facebook Technology Tasting, where the social network is showcasing their new PHP technology, HipHop . The new technology effectively transforms PHP into C++, resulting in a significant savings of CPU cycles on web servers. Facebook is streaming the event live, and we've embedded the live stream below.
related items
|
Www.allfacebook.com
Facebook Formally Announces HipHop For PHP
—
After ongoing rumors of a new version of PHP being released by Facebook today, the company has officially announced HipHop for PHP: a source code transformer. For those who suggested that it was a new compiler, it isn’t exactly that. And no, Facebook has not rewritten HP all together. While I don’t understand much about the ...
|
|
Www.allfacebook.com
Microsoft Launches The Facebook Silverlight Client
—
Facebook and Microsoft have partnered to create a standalone Facebook client powered by the new Silverlight 4 Beta technology. The client allows you to browse and interact with Facebook with a completely different interface, and a glossy one at that. To be completely honesty, the client is gorgeous, and the complete integration with Facebook ...
|
 |
Www.socialtimes.com
Sid Meier’s Civilization Coming To Facebook In 2010
—
Take Two Interactive Software, the owner of Civilization Network – one of the most popular strategy games of all time, has announced that Civilization will be available on Facebook sometime around June.
Ars Technica
Brokers must think twice before tweeting, Facebooking
—
If you're a registered broker or work for firm that sells any sort of investment products, you'll want to think twice before blurting out anything that could be construed as investment advice on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networking site. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has updated its guidelines for interpreting ...
Kristen Nicole
/
Bub.blicio.us
Facebook Privacy Changes Make Users Think, then Act.
—
There are plenty of pundits and privacy advocates that have spoken out against the recent changes Facebook made to its default privacy settings. But what about the users? Unlike other changes made to Facebook, such as the introduction of news feeds and the misuse of Beacon, the recent changes for privacy have yet to create an all out uproar from ...
|
Mike Masnick
/
Techdirt
A bunch of folks have sent in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and asking for my opinion on it. The ruling came out last week when I was traveling, and I didn't have that much time to look at the details or think about what it all meant until now. It's one of those cases where I see both sides of the argument, but am troubled by what ...
related items
|
Jkontherun.com
Google Nexus One Gains Multitouch, 3G Fix, New Map Features
—
Multitouch just got multi-interesting. We all knew that Google was working with HTC and T-Mobile for a fix to the pesky 3G stability issues on the Nexus One, but the update is getting a wee bit more. Actually, a whole lot more when you consider that multitouch isn’t typically supported on the Google apps in Android. It is now — or at ...
|
|
MG Siegler
/
TechCrunch
Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face?
—
As great as Android phones are getting, there has been one major feature lacking that users have complained about: multi-touch. Yes, some third-party apps have been free to use it on certain devices, but the best Android apps, those made by Google, have all lacked it. Until now . With the Android update announced for Nexus One phones today, ...
Www.allfacebook.com
The 10 Most Useful Facebook Extensions For Google Chrome
—
When Google chrome was first released publicly on September 2, 2008, it quickly gained market share of 1% despite the ongoing development of other browsers and the dominance of Firefox & Internet explorer. But the real surge started with the beta launch of its extensions gallery a couple of months ago in December 2009. Barely in 8 weeks, the ...
Gigaom.com
Mark Cuban Tells Media “Google Is a Vampire”
—
Entrepreneur, basketball team owner and billionaire Mark Cuban isn’t one to keep his opinions to himself, particularly when it comes to something he feels strongly about — like the performance of his beloved Dallas Mavericks, or the flaws in the NBA, or the path that the media industry must take to survive in a digital world. It was ...
Frank Reed
/
Andy Beal
Beware of Google Agent 007
—
Google is so good at what it does that it actually uncovers illegal acts and helps bring perpetrators to justice. Well that may be a bit of a stretch but in the “is that really news department” is an incident where the roving Google camera caught a Canadian tree-killer in the act. As a result, [...]
Www.rev2.org
Google App Store in the Works
—
The war between the tech giants continues, with a new battlefield emerging in the business applications arena. The New York Times Blog has broken a story stating that Google is planning a new application store to sell business software while promoting Google Apps. This is interesting, but not surprising, on several levels.
Jason Clarke
/
Download Squad
Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs
—
Filed under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...
Iphoneroot.com
Steve Jobs about Google and Adobe
—
On the next day after the iPad presentation Steve Jobs gave a conference at Town Hall. Among others the Google and Adobe subjects were discussed. According to a person, who was not authorized to speak with the press by Apple, but was present on this event, Jobs didn’t mince his words in his speech. This is what he exactly said about Google:
Blogoscoped.com
An App Store for Google Docs, Gmail?
—
Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting software developers in its battle against Microsoft Corp.
Googleblog.blogspot.com
Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards
—
It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve the efficiency of our data centers. Along with our internal ...
|
Google’s YouTube allowed viewers to submit a question for US president Obama. Over 11,000 questions were asked and over 667,000 votes were cast, YouTube writes, saying they “collected the top questions”. Now, Toke of the Town however writes that “YouTube Censors Marijuana Question In Obama Interview”:
related items
Mashable was in attendance at today’s New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, where Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek gave an excellent keynote about the state of the music industry and the re-emerging subscription model.
 
Richard Lai
/
Engadget
Remember the OPhone platform, Open Mobile System? You know, China Mobile's supposedly beefed up Android ? Things have become even more interesting as OMS jumps from 1.5 to 2.0 -- it now supports Scalable Vector Graphics UI elements and does voice recognition, but what really caught our attention was the vague mention of Windows Mobile API support.
related items
|
Jason Clarke
/
Download Squad
OpenFire and Spark offer secure private chat and collaboration tools
—
Filed under: Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Freeware , Open Source , Web If you're looking to implement a secure, private chat environment in your company, have a look at what's going on at Ignite Realtime with their OpenFire real time collaboration server and Spark cross-platform IM client. Being that they are open source, both OpenFire and ...
|
|
Chris Ziegler
/
Engadget
Nexus One's big update can be had without the wait
—
Android's devised one of the slickest, most widely-deployed systems for delivering over-the-air operating system updates to smartphones, but there's a problem: you've got to wait until your carrier (or manufacturer) blesses you with them. They're typically deployed in rolling batches so that it's easier for the company to do one final test of ...
Dion Almaer
/
Ajaxian » Front Page
LunaScript: A new language and platform to take your Web 2.0 apps to the moon?
—
A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have been in a pub.... but [...]
|
Filed under: Software , How-tos , Productivity One gem in Mac OS X that sometimes gets glanced over is the Services menu. Lots of readers may not know yet that Snow Leopard brought with it the ability to create your own customized service in Automator -- in other words, you can get additional selections on a contextual menu when right-clicking ...
related items
|
Mike Schramm
/
The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Dick Durbin presses Apple on human rights in China
—
Filed under: Apple Corporate , Apple Technology relations with China and their human rights situation is turning into a hot-button issue lately, especially given Google's recent troubles with that country . Now, my old senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, has decided to raise the level of scrutiny, calling for a list of 30 companies, including ...
|
|
Mike Schramm
/
The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Patent hints at next generation Apple TV
—
Filed under: Gaming , Hardware , Video The USPTO has published seven different patents from Apple today , including one that might be found in the next generation of the Apple TV. The patent allows for a "Remote Control System that can Distinguish Stray Light Sources" -- in other words, a Wii style remote that can pick out a certain type of ...
|
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
 
Readwriteweb
/
ReadWriteWeb
You're walking down the street. Your phone buzzes, a map or a screen overlay pops up and you're shown a note left in that location by one of your friends - along with an ad for your favorite pizza. Walk into the pizza place and your phone buzzes again - your friends have something to say about the guy behind the counter. That might have sounded ...
related items
Thanks to my recent travels, which took me from San Francisco to Munich to LA and back again — all in less than a week — I got to thinking about the past four years. It’s been nearly that long since I first started working on GigaOM, the business, and thus crossed over to becoming a founder.
MG Siegler
/
TechCrunch
As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...
related items
|
Chris Ziegler
/
Engadget
Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch
—
The iPhone isn't the only handset getting bumped today -- Google's just outed a very, very significant update to the Nexus One that includes Google Goggles on board and a re-upped version of Google Maps that includes suggestions and a dedicated night mode. Much more significantly, though, they've capitulated and enabled multitouch in Browser, ...
|
|
Fmpub.net
/
John Battelle
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
—
The folks at Aardvark have posted an ambitious paper over on the 'vark blog. Titled after Brin and Page's original “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”, the paper presents the Aardvark engine and, in its authors' words: "describes the fundamental differences between the traditional “Library” paradigm of web...
|
Unless you were in some time vortex over the past 36 hours you no doubt know that Apple released the iPad, a 3:4 screen with basic computer features. The iPad launched with the usual hype of Apple product launches, and of course every Apple gear head and iPhone user thought “oh wow” and then “oh [...]
related items
|
CenterNetworks
Why I Want an iPad
—
Over the past week we’ve looked at why the iPad will be good for contractors and why you might not be the target audience for the device. After considerable thought, I’d like to share why I want an iPad. I’m not an Apple fanboy – the only Apple device I currently own is a 4 year-old [...]
|
|
Gigaom.com
IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
—
When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in the run-up to the iPad launch, the answer may not be day one. In fact, a significant number ...
|
|
Megan Lavey
/
The Unofficial Apple (TUAW)
Apple forces Stanza to nix USB book sharing
—
Filed under: iTunes , iPhone , App Store Those who enjoy USB book sharing their ePub and eReader files in the current version of Stanza [ iTunes link ] will want to avoid the 2.1 version of the software, currently being distributed in the App Store. The update notes reveal that Apple apparently ordered Lexcycle to remove the USB sharing ability. ...
|
Chris Ziegler
/
Engadget
Since it looks like GT5's still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we've seen to do that. At a glance, Nokia's Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it ...
related items
The Wall Street Journal has published recent comments made by Playfish’s CEO, Kristian Segerstrale. They are among the first public comments since Playfish’s acquisition by Electronic Arts late last year. One of the more notable comments made by Kristian was that Playfish plans to release a social game based on a well-known EA brand ...
related items
|
Www.socialtimes.com
Nissan and NFL Canada Launch Social Games Promotion
—
NFL Canada and Nissan have partnered to bring you their latest social media campaign, a contest where you “Play NFL Social Games and you could win a Nissan Pathfinder”. By signing in using your Facebook account, and playing quiz, trivia, concentration and other social games, players are able to win chances to get a new car. ...
|
These guys had everyone fooled into thinking that they were doing something worth hearing. I’m biased because I think that as people, they’re assholes. They tried to cook and eat my friend Marc Paolini’s cat Boris once back in 1991. I guess I shouldn’t hold grudges. As musicians they sounded like school kids at their first ...
In this paper, we introduce a novel de-anonymization attack against users of social networking sites. In particular, we show that information about the group memberships of a user (i.e., the groups of a social network to which a user belongs) is often sufficient to uniquely identify this user. When unique identification is not possible, then the ...
related items
|
Jordan McCollum
/
Andy Beal
Social Network Traffic to Retail Grows
—
We’ve seen the trend for a long time: social networks are sending more and more downstream traffic to retail sites. Hitwise has the numbers from December—and the downstream traffic from social networks is up 37%. The change doesn’t look super significant, I know, but it’s the biggest percentage increase for any category. ...
|
|
Weblogs.hitwise.com
Social network impact for retailers
—
Social networking has become the most popular activity online and visits to the category represented 13% of all US Internet visits in December. As the social networking audience continues to grow, the category has become a major source of traffic for retailers, surpassing categories such as Rewards and Directories, comprised of comparison ...
|
Last December, Amazon Web Services lowered their pricing for the S3 storage service. Today Amazon announced that they have reduced the outbound data transfer chages for all of their services by $0.02/GB. The affected services include: Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon VPC. The new outbound data transfer ...
related items
|
Www.rev2.org
Amazon, Macmillan Publishing, and Price Wars
—
This story broke over the weekend and got some real legs on it yesterday evening. Amazon and Macmillan publishing have been fighting about price points and electronic books and Amazon, apparently, has caved in to Macmillan on this. Unlike the rest of the buzz mongers, however, I’m going to tell you why this is a good thing.
|
Loving a geek isn’t hard to do, what with the social awkwardness and the over-zealous online gaming. Shopping for one however, can sometimes be a challenge. Throw in that added pressure to be extra thoughtful on Valentine’s Day, and you’ve got quite the conundrum (that’s geek for “problem”).
Erick Schonfeld
/
TechCrunch
Yesterday, browser market share figures came out from Net Applications, and the big news is how Chrome is moving up the ranks at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and even Firefox, compared to December. But you have to look further back to get a sense of what is really happening. The various flavors of Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, ...
 
Jason Fitzpatrick
/
Lifehacker
iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of ...
related items
|
Lisa Hoover
/
Lifehacker
BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions
—
iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...
|
|
