By Brandon Russell |
Videos you record with Vine are much, much easier to embed on the Web, the company announced on Friday. As of now, there are two distinct embeddable post styles you can choose from depending on your taste; “Simple” presents Vine clips in a minimal style…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook just sent out invites for a press event on April 4 where it invites everyone to “Come See Our New Home on Android.” It’s perfectly possible that the company will talk about revamped Android applications for smartphones and tablets, but TechCrunch it learned from sources that…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook is clearly firing on all cylinders to earn more advertising revenue and get you to click on those ads. And it’s willing, even eager, to bust past the limits of its own social network to make that happen. The company followed up last summer’s…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple’s currently being sued by a company that believes Apple copied its technology to build Siri. Agence France Presse said Apple met on Wednesday with Zhizhen Network Technology Co., a firm based in Shanghai that has its own voice engine called Xiao i Robot. Apple’s Siri has…
By Adriana Lee |
Vine may be only be two months old, at least as a Twitter offering, but it’s already playing with the big boys. And the boy it’s playing with has adamantium claws. Director James Mangold let loose the first lightning-fast peep at the new Marvel superhero…
By Adriana Lee |
Who doesn’t post pictures of their kids on Facebook? And what you see here is a photo, much like others — the blurry face of a young kid grinning at the camera. And if that’s all there was to this image, maybe it wouldn’t have…
By Adriana Lee |
LinkedIn has always aimed to connect its 200 million users with each other, and now its finetuning that approach with a new unified search tool that makes professional content easier to find. There’s now a single search box at the top of the page that…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently released a new version of its Messenger application in the United Kingdom. The update offers voice calls and voice messages, two features that have been available to U.S. users since the middle of January. The application is available for several platforms, including Android…
By Todd Haselton |
Today is Twitter’s 7th birthday and the social network is celebrating by revealing a couple of usage statistics and publishing a highlight reel of several of the social network’s most impressive moments. A roughly two-minute highlight reel starts off with Jack Dorsey’s first Tweet in…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook is going to start using one of the Internet’s most iconic symbols: the hashtag. It’s a page right out of Twitter’s 140-character book but, according to sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Zuckerberg’s integration of the hashtag isn’t going to hit anytime soon.…
By Todd Haselton |
Twitter recently launched an official application for Windows 8 devices that takes advantage of some of the new features inside the operating system, such as snap view and live tiles. Snap view allows you to launch another application and run it on the same display…
By Sean P. Aune |
Netflix has announced integration with Facebook that will now make it possible to get social recommendations of what you should watch next. At long last you can see what your Facebook friends are watching on Netflix, and, in turn, you can share with them what…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook’s News Feed has slowly evolved over its short lifetime, eventually transforming into the cluttered information hoard millions of people say everyday. But that’s changing, and Zuck and co. revealed on Thursday what we can expect the new News Feed to look like as it…
By Roy Choi |
Facebook announced new design elements to engage users more effectively on Facebook on Thursday. The new design rolls out today, facebook.com/newsfeed, for some users, but the roll-out will be gradual. The most notable changes include: larger images, videos, more prominent check-ins, more detailed information from publications…
By Roy Choi |
Facebook has invited the press for some big news. In all likelihood, it will focus on News Feed, which sounds like more content feeds on an already busy page. Rumors claim your page will be filled with numerous feeds: music, photos, recent news. The attempt…
By Brandon Russell |
How Facebook will revamp its chaotic News Feed is still a mystery for now, but we’ll find out tomorrow. It’ll certainly take a lot to makeover what’s become an unintuitive content hoard, but in Zuck we trust. Unless a new report from TechCrunch is true. It…
By Todd Haselton |
Tumblr will introduce advertisements into its mobile applications, the company recently confirmed in remarks made to Bloomberg. It’s a move that follows the introduction of advertisements into other mobile social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. Tumblr vice president Derek Gottfrid said the service will launch…
By Adriana Lee |
When it comes to TweetDeck and its demise, the writing was on the wall. Sure, we had hopes there’d be something good to come out of the company’s acquisition by Twitter, but the apps have had nary an update since 2011. Even so, many users…
By Sean P. Aune |
TweetDeck will be no more as of this coming May, Twitter confirmed yesterday. As one of the most popular Twitter apps, this is a sad day indeed. While there may not be a fix for a stand-alone app on iOS or Android (yet), there is…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook’s constantly evolving face will get yet another overhaul at an event scheduled for March 7. One of the biggest complaints users have with Facebook is the cluttered and painful to look at News Feed—it’s an absolute mess, and has been that way for awhile…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook’s main app for iOS, like Messenger, has been updated to support free user-to-user calling, meaning you can ring every single one of your friends on the social network. All one billion of them. Really, though, this just means it’ll be easy to contact friends…
By Todd Haselton |
BlackBerry tried to tout the growing number of popular applications that it will add to its BlackBerry World store. There are a few now, for sure, but for some reason Instagram seems to be the one application that people always look for on iOS, Android…
By Adriana Lee |
Technology can only go so far. Despite the ubiquity of consumer devices, the Internet and social media, there are still some things that need to be handled with grace, compassion and a real live human touch. Take Anna Lamb-Creasey’s ordeal, for instance. The Georgia mother…
By Todd Haselton |
Yesterday there was a (slightly amusing) hack on Burger King’s Twitter account in which the hackers decided to rebrand it as McDonalds. We already opined on the risks of using social media for branding (despite the clear benefit), especially if certain security measures aren’t taken…
