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....
View ArticleToS;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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleSteam’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...
View ArticleGitHub 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,...
View ArticleEmbarrassing 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...
View ArticleOne 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...
View ArticleCan 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....
View ArticleFacebook’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...
View Article‘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...
View Article4 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...
View ArticleYahoo 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleIBM 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...
View ArticleZynga 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...
View ArticleIncorporating 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...
View ArticlePresent 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...
View ArticleData 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....
View ArticlePractice 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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