Amazon today is rolling out a free software update to the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, adding Goodreads and FreeTime integration. The update will appear over the next few weeks for Paperwhite owners. Both integrations are designed to maximize reading time and minimize switching from one device to another while reading. The Goodreads integration will let Paperwhite […]
After enabling the feature for just a month, Twitter’s decided it doesn’t want you to receive messages from any follower without the need to follow back. The Next Web reports that the company has silently removed the checkbox in user settings that enables the option, which we’ve confirmed in at least five accounts, meaning you’ll once again be limited to direct-messaging users that you personally find interesting. Twitter remains quiet on the matter, pointing to previous correspondence that it is always testing new features, but given that it’s rumored to be considering a standalone messaging app, we wouldn’t be surprised Twitter’s much-maligned DM feature is overhauled in the near future.
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Word this week on the ever-growing messaging service known as Snapchat is that they’ve rebuffed Facebook‘s advances not once, but twice over the past year. While you’ll want to take this whole collection of points with a grain of salt due to their entirely anonymous nature, the Wall Street Journal suggests that “people briefed on […]
Shots of Me, the Justin Bieber-backed selfie app for iOS, launched today. Despite Bieber doubters’ derision, the app could actually serve a variety of useful and fun purposes–and not just in terms of marketability to high schoolers. The app’s intentional lack of commenting functions, the frosty-screened button bars, the emphasis on human interest rather than […]
This week Twitter has announced a new Custom Timelines feature for Tweets, the creation of these timelines given – at first – to TweetDeck alone. Using Tweetdeck, Twitter users will be able to create a custom timeline of Tweets then publish them to Twitter – Twitter will then display them on a unique page that’s […]
Facebook‘s thumbs-up icon has become near ubiquitous, with parody designs being used to denote the disliking of something, and the thumbs-up being used in many situations both within and outside of the social network to indicate favor towards something. That could slowly change in the future, with Facebook rolling out the first redesign of its […]
Today Twitter begins its journey into the public realm with their Initial Public Offering, seeing a relatively quick rise in price of each share in early hours of trading. The Twitter IPO began with the company offering up 70 million shares with stock priced at a cool $26 USD per share. Soon after the initial […]
Twitter has been undergoing the long process of going public, something that started as a rumor and eventually surfaced as a business-move-in-progress that has been moving steadily forward. Tomorrow marks the company’s trading debut, and ahead of this Twitter has announced its IPO pricing as $26 per share on 70,000,000 shares of common stock. The […]
This afternoon Facebook’s financial Q3 report included word that the company was running up on expectations for growth, beating both 3-month and 6-month totals over the 2012 season at this time. This earnings report included word from CEO Mark Zuckerberg that “the next phase of our company” was ready to unfurl. Facebook’s report began with […]
Momentage, a new multimedia sharing app and social network, officially launched last week. The app lets you snap photos, shoot videos, add sound clips, write descriptions, and arrange it all as “moments” which you can quickly share to the Momentage network, Twitter, and Facebook. Shared moments take the form of media collages which can be […]
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