Hasta La Gadget!

Twitter is a social media service that has been used in a number of interesting ways as we recently reported on a hotel that encourages its patrons to tweet their experience as well as a story where a woman used the service to get herself out of a locked church. Users in Japan, on the other hand, are using the service to publish their phone numbers, bank account information and home address as part of a new fad that’s sweeping the country. (more…)

Japanese Twitter Users Start New Fad Of Posting Personal Info Online original content from Ubergizmo.

Newsroom,
the HBO hit series created and written by Aaron Sorkin predicates its
storylines on actual news that’s taken place in the real world, about 18
month prior. Having cut his social networking teeth on his
award-winning movie, "The Social Network," Sorkin takes full advantage of weaving social media references into his yarns, whenever he can.

There have been countless previous attempts to impress upon us the sheer, absurd mass of, well, things happening on the internet at any given moment. What with all the hundreds of millions of people online Facebooking and Skyping and blogging and Tumbling and Tweeting and god knows what else, it’s a pretty consistently impressive display. But just seeing the numbers will never be quite the same as actually seeing each individual action laid out in front of us—which is why this website showing you everything that happens on the internet every second will make your head spin.

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Chances are if you’re meek, a dweeb or scored low on your most recent IQ Test, you are oblivious to YouTube Geek Week.
However, with over 9 million subscribers, obviously being geek isn’t for the
weak of heart any more (for those who remember when Charles Atlas use to get sand
kicked in his face).

When Twitter rolled out two factor authentication back in May, it hinted that the SMS authentication would be merely a first step in a more robust security solution. Today, WIRED got a better look at the company’s just-announced new system.