Twitter Launches Site Revamp

December 9th, 2011

Although many a Facebook copycat has entered the social networking scene, the only serious competitor is Twitter. The microblogging site has been responsible for breaking major headlines, from the Hudson River plane crash to the death of Osama Bin Laden. Following logically in Facebook’s footsteps, Twitter launched a significant redesign on Thursday, Dec. 8. Twitter [...]

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Poll Shows 70% of Facebook Users Are Comfortable with What They Share

December 7th, 2011

A new national telephone survey by Poll Position, an online and telephone-based public voting website for news and social media, shows that almost 70 percent of Facebook users in the US are comfortable with what they share. A significant 69.5 percent of US Facebookers claim that they are content with the personal information they share [...]

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Facebook Hiring Thousands in New York City Engineering Center

December 5th, 2011

Say what you will about the social networking giant, but there’s no denying the fact that Facebook has contributed to America’s sluggish economy. The company has now announced plans for a major New York City expansion, nearly doubling in size and bringing thousands of jobs to the market. This past Friday, the social network said [...]

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Spotify Adds Facebook-Style Apps

December 2nd, 2011

Spotify is quickly surpassing Slacker and other streaming music services in popularity. The company announced Wednesday that it will now begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its service. Many are speculating that the integration could differentiate the Stockholm-based company among growing competition from Google, Amazon and Apple. At their press [...]

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Facebook’s Most Shared Articles in 2011

November 30th, 2011

It’s that time of year again, and we’re not talking about trampling fellow Black Friday shoppers for a toaster, or choosing between a Blue Spruce and a Douglas Fir. Every year in late November/early December, everyone from TIME magazine to VH1 compiles their respective lists of the top news and entertainment stories for the year. [...]

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Cyber Monday Tech Deals

November 28th, 2011

We blogged about Black Friday, so we simply couldn’t ignore Cyber Monday. Some of the best tech deals are featured on Cyber Monday, so we did a little digging to try and find out if some of the season’s hottest gadgets would be discounted, and here’s what we found: Kindle Fire: It has been speculated [...]

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Which Black Friday Deal Are You Tweeting About?

November 23rd, 2011

We’re starting to lose count of the number of times we’ve talked about the ever-accelerating momentum in e-commerce and social mobile. According to the National Retail Federation, in 2010, 212 million people spent an estimated $45 billion total on Black Friday. The emerging status quo of retailers offering online and mobile deals is really beginning [...]

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