Archive for 'Social Networks'
Celebrating 25 Years of Dot-Com
Posted on 27. Mar, 2010 by admin.
Twenty-five years ago on this date, the first company registered a Web address with the now prolific .com extension. In recognition of that milestone, we’ve asked Internet industry leaders to take a look back at the impact of .com and share perspectives on the future direction of the Internet. We’re also honored to have Facebook [...]
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Psychologist: Facebook Makes You Smarter, Twitter Makes You Dumber
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Of course, it’s not that simple; but if you believe Dr Tracy Alloway from the University of Stirling in Scotland, Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts when it comes to improve your “working memory“, which relates to “the structures and processes used for temporarily storing and manipulating information in short-term memory.” Dr. Alloway has [...]
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Twitter COO: We’ll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You’re Going To Love It.
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by admin.
Twitter has apparently come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it’s coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company’s upcoming advertising business. Costolo was vague on the details, but he did make some promises: “It will be fascinating. Non-traditional. And [...]
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Massive Facebook And MySpace Flash Vulnerability Exposes User Data
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by admin.
A Facebook developer named Yvo Schaap has uncovered a massive security flaw present on both Facebook and MySpace that would give hackers the ability to steal all of your account data, including your photos, personal messages, and basically everything else you’ve ever put on the social networks, without you ever realizing it. Update: MySpace tells [...]