The NY Times will flip the switch on its digital paywall today, and the Grey Lady don’t come cheap: $15/month for the website and the phone app, $20/month for the website and the iPad app, or a wallet-singeing $35 for web, phone, and iPad. But there are loopholes! And they are generous. Here’s your game plan. Read For Free As much as a paywall might get your hackles up, the folks...
It would seem that 25 percent of all the page views in the United States are now going to Mark Zuckerberg and his crew over at Facebook. A quick lesson in how the success of a site is measured for those who are unaware of it. The two primary metrics a site is measured by is “Unique Visitors” and “Page Views”. The unique visitors is the number of different people who come to a site,...
Facebook has finally taken the wraps off of its long-rumored e-mail messaging product. But don’t call it e-mail! Seriously, they pounded that into everyone’s heads during their announcement this morning. The new Facebook Messaging system is attempting to unify your e-mail, SMS text messages, IM conversations and Facebook Messages into one inbox system. In the demonstration given...
We’ve all heard stories about how employers are now checking out social media profiles of applicants, and last year there was even a story about how the city of Bozeman, MT was asking potential hires for their passwords so they could really dig deep. In general people have reacted negatively to these stores, but what if it was someone being hired to protect you and your family, say a...
If the rumors are true, Facebook will be debuting its own e-mail service on Monday, Nov. 15th. If this truly is what their invitation-only event is about that day, be prepared for an endless onslaught of “Gmail Killer” headlines to hit the Internet. Oh, and probably the nastiest fight we’ll ever see between two giants of the tech world. Back in Feb. of this year rumors began to...
Yesterday we brought you the news of how MySpace may only have quarters left to live, and while we cracked a joke about how this all related back to Friendster, it does make you wonder if there aren't some lessons here to be learned. To be fair, Friendster is still active, and is actually quite popular in Asia. So much so that it was purchased last Dec. by MOL Global, a large Internet...
There has been no doubt for some time now that Facebook was looking seriously at mobile as a significant part of its future, and the announcements that came out of the popular social networking site today sealed that. At a product announcement held at the Facebook corporate offices today, the company revealed that mobile use of its service has grown to 200 million, a tripling of the...
There is no doubt that Twitter has become a key service of he Internet, but I’m not sure I’ve seen any other site that felt the need to tell people how to capitalize words, or even how it should be worded. In a very short blog post on Friday, Twitter announced that it had launched a new selection of logos, buttons and widgets for you to use on your sites. Along with this new set of...
The economy in still in a proverbial spin cycle, and the financial experts change their minds almost on a daily basis on when the job market will improve. Unemployment and job creation has been, and will continue to be, a hot topic amongst our political leaders.It’s time for the American public to take matters into their own hands and become a bit more creative when looking for...
Facebook held an event today to announce new features to the site. At least one of them has been a long time coming, and requested by many, while the other new features are clearly designed to keep you even more involved with the king of social networks as much as possible. At long last, Facebook has done what people have been asking for for ages, and that is to allow you to download...