As if the announcement and launch of Facebook Home wasn’t enough, Facebook has yet another event in the pipeline for next week that looks to unveil “a new product” that supposedly comes from “a big idea.” The event is scheduled to take place on June 20 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. The invitation,
In an effort to help users gain more followers, Twitter has launched a feature called #FollowMe that allows users to create a short highlight reel that shows off their best tweets, photos, and Vine videos. It’s sort of like a resume to show other Twitter users that you’re worth following because of how hilarious you
Foursquare enjoys giving its users new ways to visualize all of their check-ins over the years, and they’ve introduced a new feature that makes that happen once again. It’s called Time Machine, and while it may just seem like another feature for Foursquare to use in order to recommend other hot spots to go to,
Twitter is the pioneer of the hashtag, but since then, many other online services have been adopting the number sign as well, because why not? Twitter’s biggest competitor, however, just now added support for hashtags. That’s right, Facebook now lets you click on hashtags that your friends have long been posting to their status updates.
There’s no #stopping hashtags. Facebook is confirming it will officially support the maddeningly ubiquitous categorization tool starting today, allowing users to #hashtag posts and making those hashtags #clickable. Clicking a hashtag will bring up a list of posts from friends …
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We’ve been expecting this day for a while now, but after delaying the retirement of its API v1, Twitter has officially cut the cord and is requiring Twitter clients to use its new API v1.1. Essentially, this is the final breath for a handful of Twitter clients, including TweetDeck, SilverBird, and DestroyTwitter. The updated API
Facebook announced today that they have opened up their first data center outside the US in Luleå, Sweden. It’s located in a small town at the northern edge of the Baltic Sea, and is just 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It’s an odd place for a data center, but Facebook says there are
Attaching oneself to the popularity of a current cultural phenomenon is a tried
and true promotional tactic used as far back by ad execs, the likes of
Don Draper and the Mad Men. So, it didn’t come as any surprise
when someone in the social media space would seize the opportunity to
tag on to one of the most popular TV dramas of the day: Game of Thrones.
The concept of personal 3D printers has spread like wildfire, and Michigan Tech wants to make sure that the first things that people think of when the innovative product making platform is mentioned include harmony, joy and other peaceful goodies.
The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, has condemned social media as a “the worst menace to society” following a weekend of anti-government demonstrations across his country. He singled out the “scourge” of Twitter in particular, since protestors have been using that platform to share information and vent anger at the government. Small-scale riots started over plans to build a shopping mall or mosque (depending on who you believe) on the grounds of a popular park in central Istanbul, but they quickly spread to other areas and to a broader set of grievances about Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian stance. None of these disturbances were especially visible on national TV stations, however, as there have recently been heavy crackdowns on press freedom within Turkey. From the sound of it, Erdogan would prefer a more tightly controlled internet too — or perhaps none at all.
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Source: The Times (paywall)
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