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Twitter Rolls Out Two-Factor Account Authentication
Shutterstock.com / stockshoppe Twitter today launched a feature that will allow users to opt into two-factor account authentication on the service. Users who turn on the feature will receive an access...
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LinkedIn Introduces Simpler Navigation Bar
LinkedIn began rolling out a simpler main navigation bar today, building on efforts to make the site easier to use. The new navigation bar includes sections for the user’s Profile, Network, job...
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LinkedIn Acqui-hires Team Behind Maybe
LinkedIn has acquired the social decision-making service Maybe and has shut it down, the company confirmed today. The company called the deal an “acqui-hire,” to bring on four engineers and one...
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Google Users Get Simultaneous Search of Email, Docs and Calendar
Google will allow users to unify their Gmail messages, Google Drive files and the Web from the search bar on Gmail or Google.com, the company said today. When users begin typing a query into the main...
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Google Brings Photos from Google+ to the Search Bar
Google+ users will now be able to search through their photos more easily, thanks to an update that Google rolled out today that connects the social layer to the search bar and enhances the process...
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Will Google and the FTC Go In for a Rematch?
The FTC is reportedly investigating Google for anti-competitive actions in the $9.64-billion U.S. display advertising market. An inquiry in display advertising might look initially like more of a...
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Foursquare Licenses Trickling Firehose of Check-in Data to Gnip
Foursquare has tapped the social data reseller Gnip to be the exclusive distributor of its check-in data, the companies said today. Each time a Foursquare user checks in, Gnip will see the name of the...
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Twitter Will Target Promoted Tweets to Users Who Saw Related Ads on TV
Twitter today launched a new advertising product that will target promoted tweets to users who watched TV programs during which related television commercials were aired. The ad product continues to...
View ArticleArt & Design Inspiration Fix for May 24th 2013
The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have...
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Jif Peanut Butter Embraces the GIF
Choosy moms choose GIF with a soft “g” sound. Shortly after GIF creator Steve Wilhite declared that the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format should be pronounced like the peanut butter, Jif fired...
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Uber to Lower Prices in San Francisco for Holiday Weekend
In an ongoing effort to recover from early outrage over its prices, Uber will cut fares in home city of San Francisco by 25 percent over the Memorial Day weekend. Alluding to early outcry over its...
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About.Me Launches Premium Version with Custom Domains
About.me, a personal profile builder that keeps your biographical information and social media accounts on one page, has added custom domains and other features as part of a premium package. For $4 a...
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Yahoo Reportedly Bidding on Hulu
Ermolaev Alexander / Shutterstock.com The video streaming service Hulu is amassing a long list of suitors, and Yahoo has reportedly joined the bunch. The bid was reported by Reuters and AllThingsD,...
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Americans Spend an Hour a Day on Smartphones
Photo by koratmember The average American adult spends 58 minutes a day using his or her smartphone — and just 15 minutes of it is talking, according to a study released today by Experian. Americans...
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Social Media Privacy Policies Come With Unexpected Loopholes
sharpner / Shutterstock.com By now, most users think they know the social privacy media privacy landscape, but a Canadian research project found some surprising loopholes in the companies’ privacy...
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App.net Launches Widgets to Start Cropping Up Around the Web
App.net has set itself the brazen goal of competing with Twitter, and today it is launching an essential part of that strategy: widgets. The widgets encourage users to share content on the ad-free...
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Twitter Strikes Social Spam Settlement With TweetAdder
Twitter today finalized in San Francisco district court an agreement with the makers of TweetAdder software that bars them from making future software designed to violate Twitter’s terms of service,...
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Facebook Introduces Verified Pages and Profiles
File under “can’t believe it didn’t happen sooner“: Facebook launched verified pages and profiles for public figures today. “Verified Pages belong to a small group of prominent public figures...
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Wall Street Journal Plans To Launch a Social Network
News Corporation, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, is poised to launch a new social network, the company has confirmed. Described in The Times of London as a “platform for ‘like-minded...
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Google Calendar App Gets More Colorful
Google released an update to the Calendar app today that allows users to customize the colors of events from the mobile device. The company called color customization “[o]ne of the most requested...
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