U.S Gov’t Wants Your Help with Social Media
If you’re a social media whiz, Uncle Sam wants you to help populate a brand new timeline of the most important moments in government social media use. Earlier today, David McClure, the Associate...
View ArticleNASA Releases App for Android Platform
NASA has just released its first mobile application for Google’s Android operating system with features that highlights how innovations from the space agency have impacted people’s lives. The NASA...
View ArticleRedesigned Twitter Takes Cues From Facebook
Twitter is getting a new look and it’s looking a lot like Facebook. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Tuesday unveiled the site’s redesign on theToday Show and discussed putting a new focus on user photos...
View ArticleImpressions App Allows Strangers To Give Relationship Advice
Confused about why a relationship turned sour or the real meaning of a text message? A new web app that relies on the comments of strangers may provide some clarity. The app, called Impressions, was...
View ArticleFacebook Introduces Privacy Education For New Users
Facebook has rolled out an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with....
View ArticleFacebook Releases Optimized Android App
Facebook has unveiled a new version of its app for Android smartphones that promises users speedier access to their messages, timeline and news. The app marks a rewrite of several major parts of the...
View ArticleThousands Anxiously Awaiting New Mailbox App
More than 800,000 people are waiting to access a new iPhone app that hopes to transform their email experience by helping them achieve the elusive “inbox zero” — a fully processed and empty inbox. The...
View ArticleNational Digital Public Library Debuts
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has rolled out a beta of its discovery portal and open platform. Two years in the making, the DLPA will make available to the public 2.4 million records at...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Release Date Pushed Into 2014
Google sources have walked back from earlier projections that the company’s Glass wearable computer would ship later this year. The company now acknowledges that Glass won’t make it to market until...
View ArticleTwitter Updates Site To Make Conversations Easier
Twitter is updating its site and mobile apps to make it easier for users to engage in conversations on the site and share them with people outside of Twitter. The updates were announced on Wednesday by...
View ArticleFacebook Updated Privacy Policy Likely This Week
Facebook has ended the notice and comments period on the proposed changes to its privacy policy, and expects to decide some time this week whether it needs to further update the policy in the wake of...
View ArticleBing Search Engine Gets A New Look, Adds Features
Microsoft outlined on Monday a set of new and re-designed features for Bing that the company hopes will position the search engine as a “next generation” option for users. For now, Google sits safely...
View ArticleTwitter’s IPO Date Rumored To Be November 15th
Twitter may have mistakenly revealed, at an earlier point, its plans to go public on Nov. 15, according to a recent PrivCo report. On Wednesday the financial research company PrivCo released a report...
View ArticleSocial Media Titan Twitter Still Unprofitable
Twitter has reported impressive sales figures for the first quarter, but its net loss grew substantially compared to last year. Total revenue for the period ended March 31 was roughly $250 million,...
View ArticleTwitter To Allow Users To Stream Music
Twitter Inc will allow users to play podcasts, music and other audio clips direct from their timelines, or message feeds, by using a new feature designed in partnership with Berlin-based...
View ArticleTwitter Exploring Creation Of Additional Mobile Apps To Drive Growth
Twitter Inc is exploring the creation of additional mobile applications beyond its core messaging service and ways of making it easier for newbies to use its service, as it competes with Facebook Inc...
View ArticleInstagram Makes Changes To Way Feeds Are Displayed
Facebook Inc’s photo-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffling feeds to display curated content that users would ‘care’ about first. The sequence of posts would be based on the likelihood of...
View ArticleTwitter’s 140 Character Limit To Remain
In a television interview, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said the company doesn’t censor users’ tweets, and the company’s not doing away with the 140-character message limit. Dorsey gave a...
View ArticleFacebook Introduces New Feature To Help Visually Impaired
With pictures an ever-increasing proportion of what we share on social networks, Facebook fears that users with visual impairments may be missing out. As of Tuesday, the company is tweaked its...
View ArticleGet Ready For Facebook Chatbots
Facebook is widely expected to unveil chatbots, among other things, at its annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco this week, in pursuit of its continuing goal of luring back younger users....
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