By Adriana Lee |
File this one under “people who should be stripped of their social media accounts.” What’s worse than being in a car accident? Being in a car accident when you’re not in a car. And what’s worse than that? When the perpetrator nails you on the…
By Adriana Lee |
Now that Yahoo! has nabbed Tumblr in a $1.1 billion deal, users are wondering what will become of their Tumblogs. As a preemptive strike, many are even leaving the service, looking for a new home for their food photos, cat pics, art portfolios and random…
By Adriana Lee |
Instagram caused quite a stink when it updated its Terms of Service. Users, fearing that their uploaded images could be used for advertising without permission, spoke out against the new ToS, forcing the company to reverse the terminology to mitigate the P.R. nightmare. And yet,…
By Adriana Lee |
Want to know what’s going on at your company? The best way may be to hit up Twitter, because when pink slips go down, former employees always seem to turn up there. In this case, it was AOL that was doing the axing. And this…
By Adriana Lee |
Thanks to an erroneous tweet from the Associated Press Twitter account, @AP, people far and wide were panicked over an alleged bombing at The White House and the supposed injury of President Barack Obama. It only took a moment to set things straight and reveal…
By Adriana Lee |
Last week, the rumors over Twitter #Music panned out, as the company finally had its coming out party for the Web and iOS. Twitter called it a tangible grid of trending artists, so naturally, we wanted to see what kind of trends it would yield.…
By Adriana Lee |
Is there anything about social media that researchers haven’t yet zoomed in on? This time, the study (.pdf) comes from a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student and a Facebook staffer, who reveal that most Facebook users tend to self-censor their comments at the last minute before posting.…
By Adriana Lee |
Twitter’s busting out all over. The company just announced its music discovery app this week, a new advertising approach based on tweet content, and now this — a new partnership with BBC America.…
By Adriana Lee |
Welcome to the brave new world of Twitter advertising, in which companies will be able to target you based on the content of your tweets. Seems that zeroing in on users based on who they follow just isn’t good enough, so the micro-blogging service is…
By Brandon Russell |
Jon R. is back with an all new show where he rants and raves on various topics in and out of the tech world. On this week’s episode, Jon rants about our instinct to use our smartphones to post on social media websites before helping…
By Adriana Lee |
Used to be, you could tell someone was over-the-hill if they were hitting you up via email instead of text or Facebook. Now, according to a recent Piper Jaffray survey, the demarcation line has shifted, as Zuck&Co’s popularity seems to be sliding among the teen…
By Adriana Lee |
When actor Kevin Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick, left television as relentless deputy chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer, I was beside myself. Thankfully, her hubby and his new show, Fox’s The Following, stepped in to help fill the void. Well, Kyra — since you’re well-versed…
By Roy Choi |
We are extremely excited at the growth we’ve witnessed at TechnoBuffalo. Today, we’re proud to announce that our Twitter account, @technobuffalo, has eclipsed 60,000 followers and our Facebook Page, facebook.com/technobuffalo, has surpassed 40,000 likes. We wanted to take this moment to thank you all for…
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 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 Adriana Lee |
Did Facebook poach its iconic “like” button? That’s the heart of a case being brought to court on behalf of deceased Dutch programmer Joannes Jozef Everardus Van Der Meer. The key argument is a simple matter of timeline. (No pun intended.) Six years before his death…
By Adriana Lee |
For companies, the only thing worse than seeing their businesses go down in flames is realizing that scores of staffers have to get axed. But there’s something even worse than that, something that all employers should dread — one of those workers live-tweeting the lay-off…
By Adriana Lee |
Vine, Twitter’s new micro-vid sharing service, has become a force to be reckoned with. Thursday, its first and only mobile app debuted in the iOS App Store, and since then, it has been highly publicized in the geek blogging space as well as to the…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook’s new Graph Search has set the Internet abuzz since it was unveiled this week, as business pundits and social media experts weigh in on what this could mean for the nature of online privacy, the company’s own monetization strategies as well as for the…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook was once the hip new upstart amid a nascent social media landscape dominated by offerings like MySpace and Friendster. (Show of hands — who remembers Friendster?) But it wasn’t long before the Zuckerprise overshadowed its competitors and emerged as the dominant platform for Mafia…
By Adriana Lee |
Would you pay to guarantee that your Facebook messages end up in recipients’ inboxes, even if they’re not connected to you? The company seems to think so, having launched a new — and utterly ridiculous — test program. Sure, plenty of people and businesses would…
By Adriana Lee |
TV execs have long been wracking their brains, trying to crack the mystery of how television and social media ought to gel. Well, here’s a tip: They may want to put down that Nielsen data and pick up the new Twitter report instead. The microblogging…
By Adriana Lee |
It’s like the ultimate prank, one that’s guaranteed to turn you into the most loathed contact this side of the social webs. Turns out, nearly anyone can freeze another’s Facebook page via “Memorialization.” The feature is intended to hold Facebook profiles for deceased people, so that…
