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States Ban Demands for Social Media Passwords

If you’re the type of person who enjoys posting potentially career-ending comments or photos on social media sites, you’ll be happy to know several states are angling to help enable your self-sabotage....

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ToS;DR Shows the Bottom Line of Websites’ Terms of Service

ToS;DR is a young project — started just two months ago — that seeks to end what TechCrunch calls “the biggest lie on the Web.” The lie revolves around websites’ terms of service. ToS:DR — which stands...

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Using Twitter to Land a Tech Job at Expedia

Online travel site Expedia wants to hire 240 technology professionals ranging from engineers to a sizable slug of information technology specialists. And more and more, managers there are finding those...

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Why Facebook Needs To Build A Superior Android App

Facebook released a major update to its iOS app last month, transforming the slow and stress-inducing app into a snappy, decent one. I’ve always wondered why the world’s largest social network, with...

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Steam’s Greenlight Turns to Crowdsourcing

Valve recently pressed the go button on Steam network’s Greenlight program, which seeks member advice on what games the company should develop. It seems a natural development, given the popularity of...

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GitHub for Enterprise. Yes, Enterprise

When I talk to developers, they go on and on about how Github is one of the most amazing resources for coding. The website, github.com, is a collaborative space for all developers to search for code,...

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Embarrassing Moments in Social Media

Whether publicly posting something that you meant to DM (Hello, Anthony Weiner) or letting photos of us drunk show up on Facebook, we’ve all done stupid things online. At TechCrunch Disrupt, I asked...

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One Woman’s Views on Algorithms as Foreplay

How successful has online dating been for you? Jen Friel, who blogs at Blogger of Talk Nerdy to Me Lover, says her experiment has been a combination of success and ultimate failure. I spoke with her...

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Can Redesigned Myspace Get Back in the Game?

Myspace, the social network giant of the late Jurassic, has finally changed its design. Though long overdue, the overhaul may make the service a player in the quicksilver social networking scene....

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Facebook’s Wanna-Be Co-Owner Arrested for Fraud

Remember Paul Ceglia, the New York businessman who claimed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg gave him a 50 percent stake in the social media behemoth? Well, it turns out federal prospectors didn’t buy...

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‘Future Perfect’ Sees Progress Through Peer Networks

Long celebrated as one of the Internet’s deepest philosophical thinkers, Steven Johnson uses the publication of his eighth book, Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age, to make the...

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4 Ways to Stay Out of Trouble When You’re Multitasking

Ever face an obnoxious co-worker texting during your killer presentation on your latest deep-dive data analysis? You’re likely not alone. It turns out that 64 percent of CIOs are encountering breaches...

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Yahoo Promises Not to Screw Tumblr Up

Yahoo Promises Not to Screw Tumblr Up (via slashdot) Yahoo has agreed to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Founded in February 2007, Tumblr hosts 108.6 million blogs, many of which emphasize images and...

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Google May Launch Bidding War with Facebook Over Waze: Report

Google May Launch Bidding War with Facebook Over Waze: Report (via slashdot) Here we go again: weeks after news leaked that Facebook was negotiating a $1 billion deal for Waze, the Israeli firm behind...

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IBM Focuses Its Data-Analytics Tools on Employee Retention

IBM Focuses Its Data-Analytics Tools on Employee Retention (via slashdot) IBM is rolling out a new data-analytics package designed to make workplaces more efficient and minimize the number of...

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Zynga Layoffs to Hit 18 Percent of Workforce

Zynga is planning to cut a whopping 18 percent of its workforce by August, the struggling social media game developer said Monday. The across-the-board cuts will hit “all functions” of the company and...

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Incorporating Social Links into Your Dice Profile

By Alicia Ouverson When creating or editing your profile on Dice, you can add links to your LinkedIn profile, Twitter feed, Facebook page and/or personal websites. To do this: Go into your active or...

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Present Shock: Stuck in The Now

Way back in 1970, futurist Alvin Toffler, the author of the best-selling Future Shock, warned us that “too much change in too short a period of time” was certain to cause both individuals and societies...

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Data Analytics’ Next Big Feat: Sarcasm Detection

Data Analytics’ Next Big Feat: Sarcasm Detection (via slashdot) French tech firm Spotter has apparently devised an analytics platform capable of identifying sarcastic comments, according to the BBC....

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Practice Gaming, Help Civilization

In times of crisis, social media usage skyrockets. And while many of the posts are merely complaints about being inconvenienced, some contain information that could be useful to first responders....

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