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 |
There is no doubt that e-commerce revolutionized retail, and now we’re looking at what could be the beginning of the next new wave of digital shopping — the buy-via-Twitter model. American Express is kicking off a new initiative today that enables accountholders to purchase products…
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 |
Dating has always been a tricky thing. Does she like me? Does he think I’m cute? Should I ask for a phone number? Is there a real person behind this persona? Well, there’s one iPhone app that claims to streamline all of that, making new connections…
By Todd Haselton |
Happy holidays from Facebook! The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently donated $500 million worth of Facebook stock to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, with the hopes that the funds will be applied to education and health programs, NBC News said Wednesday. Zuckerberg said that the $500 million…
By Todd Haselton |
Instagram has been a hot topic since the social network, now owned by Facebook, updated its terms of service (ToS) last night. We covered it in depth a bit earlier today, so be sure to read up on the new changes and how they will…
By Todd Haselton |
Do you like building Star Wars models? Do you want to find a community of people from around the world with the same interest and who are discussing the same topics? Google+ Communities hopes to do just that. The company today announced Communities, which is…
By Todd Haselton |
I joined Facebook when it was still open to just college students. I was happy when it finally opened its walled garden to anyone – it allowed me to connect with friends who didn’t go to school and, eventually, with family members. I’ve used the…
By Todd Haselton |
Is Facebook trying to kill the SMS – which turned 20 yesterday – and compete with free services such as iMessage, WhatsApp and BBM? It certainly looks like it. The company announced recently that Android users no longer need to sign in with a Facebook…
By Roy Choi |
Over 10 million photos with Thanksgiving mentions were posted on Thanksgiving Day. At its peak, 200 photos per second were posted with Thanksgiving mentions. According to Instagram, every single traffic record was broken. Were your images one of the 10 million? Post yours below. [Instagram…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook is starting to roll out a new photo-syncing option that automatically saves a copy of every image snapped on an iOS device to a folder on Facebook. The folder is private so, in many ways, the service works like Microsoft’s SkyDrive photo option on…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook updated its iOS application with several new features on Friday. Facebook says the update should make it easier to share multiple photos with friends and to stay in touch via the social network’s built-in chat feature. You can also swipe the app left to…
By Todd Haselton |
I love Foursquare, especially living in New York City. Its Explore feature allows me to quickly find restaurants I’ve never been to before, too. Now, Foursquare has updated its iOS application with enhancements to Explore that should make it better than ever. Here’s what the…
By Todd Haselton |
Rumors of a Facebook phone are as old as time itself. HTC eventually did release two “Facebook” phones, but they weren’t officially offered by Facebook and only offered a Facebook quick-launch button. They were also ultimately met with little to no consumer interest. Now, however,…
By Brandon Russell |
One of the biggest turning points in Facebook’s history was when Timeline rolled out. Here was a way to see your entire life — important dates, trips and life-changing events — in one big, meaningful online arrangement. But its double-column layout is difficult to navigate…
By Todd Haselton |
Research firm Ovum recently published a report that suggests social messaging apps, such as WhatsApp, will cost wireless carriers as much as $54 billion by 2016. That’s a staggering figure, however, and we wonder if Ovum took into consideration that carriers, such as AT&T and…
By Todd Haselton |
“Chairs. Chairs are made so that people can sit down and take a break.” That’s how Facebook’s first commercial starts out, which we’ve embedded above. “Chairs are for people. And that is why chairs are like Facebook.” Then the commercials goes on to list doorbells,…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook recently confirmed that it will begin to charge its partners to post “Offers” on the social network. The company’s Offers option currently allows retailers to post deals on the social network. However, Facebook used to provide this service for free. The big news here?…
By Todd Haselton |
I’m still addicted to Foursquare, even though a lot of my friends seemed to have slowed down on their updates. I actually use the Explore tab in New York City quite frequently, usually to find a new restaurant, and it works pretty well. Now, Foursquare has…
By Brandon Russell |
It’s only been a little over a year since Google+ went live, but already the social network has amassed over 400 million users — and 100 million are active each month. That’s a pretty staggering number considering the service was brushed off as a “ghost…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook updates its Android app on Thursday with a new “upload flow” feature that makes it easier to upload, caption and tag multiple photos on the go. Uploading photos to the service through the Android app used to be more trouble than it was worth,…
By Todd Haselton |
Google+ began issuing vanity URLs to celebrities and major brands, such as Britney Spears and Delta, earlier this month and now it’s rolling out the feature to thousands of additional individuals and brands. What’s a vanity URL? It’s what will allow your Google+ address to…
By Todd Haselton |
Instagram just announced that it has updated its iOS and Android applications to version 3.0, which includes a ton of new features. The largest tweak is a brand new “Photo Maps” option that allows you to view all of your geotagged photos on a map.…
By Todd Haselton |
The United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading has given Facebook’s planned acquisition of Instagram a nod of approval. The government agency said Tuesday that it has “decided on the information currently available to it, not to refer this merger to the Competition Commission under the…
