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Facebook Now Consumes 5 Percent of Our Collective Internet Time
Facebook’s already the Internet’s ultimate time waster , with users spending more time on it than any other website including Google, YouTube, and Yahoo. But here’s another remarkable way to look at it: according to comScore , 5.5% of all time ...
“30 Rock” Takes a Crack at Facebook [VIDEO]
NBC’s hit show, 30 Rock , typically takes a social norm and parodies it to no end by dedicating an entire episode to it. Last night’s installment, “Secret Santa,” was no exception. This time around the subject of the show̵...
What Do Seniors Do Online? Visit Facebook and YouTube, of Course [STATS]
We’ve known for a while that Facebook users are getting a lot older , but now new data released by Nielsen reveals that the number of seniors (65 and older) using the web has increased by 6 million in the last five years. Not only that, but nea...
Why Facebook Chose to Limit Google and Spare Twitter Search
Google really unleashed a torrent of news and updates today. While events such as the launch of Google Goggles are very interesting, the big news is clearly the launch of real-time search within Google . Now as events unfold, Google will capture the ...
Turn Movie Ratings Into a Game with Flickchart
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSp...
8 Tips for Managing a LinkedIn Group
Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr . With over 50 million users , LinkedIn continues to be am...
Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox Live November 17
If you didn’t get into the Preview Program for Xbox LIVE’s forthcoming social networking integrations featuring Twitter, Facebook and last.fm support, don’t worry — you don’t have too much longer to wait. According to Ma...
MySpace Courts Microsoft for Music Content Deal
The talks are preliminary according to AllThingsD , but they nevertheless reveal more of struggling social network MySpace’s strategy for re-inventing itself. And although MSN Music already has its own content network, executives are considerin...
RUMOR: Verizon and Apple Already Testing 4G iPhone
This rumor simply has to be taken with a grain of salt, but word has it that Verizon and Apple are testing a version of the iPhone on Verizon’s upcoming 4G LTE network. For those unfamiliar with the landscape, 4G is essentially the next-generat...
POLL: Facebook Defeats Twitter in Reader Vote
We’ve come to the exciting conclusion of our fourth weekly Web Faceoff , where we pit two popular social services or apps against each other in a virtual knock-down, drag-out fight. Check out all the results to date at the bottom of this post. ...
LinkedIn Surpasses 50 Million Users
As we reported yesterday, growth for some of the world’s biggest social networks — like Twitter and Facebook — appear to be flattening . One site bucking that trend though is LinkedIn , which saw a 5.68% growth in traffic for the mo...
Will You Be Struck By Lightning? I Can Tell You What Your Odds Are
The odds a golfer will be injured while playing golf in a year are 1 in 644. The odds a householder with an income of $100,000 or more will spend money on men’s coats, jackets, blazers, or vests in a year are 1 in 1.56. The odds of you being ea...
Watch NASA’s Exploding Moon Rocket Live on NASA TV
Remember the LCROSS project , the one in which NASA plans to fire a huge exploding rocket into the moon? The goal is to eject debris from the surface of one of moon’s craters and discovering whether there’s frozen water there. Well, the t...
Oneok Sues Twitter For Trademark Infringement [Update: Dropped]
*Update: The lawsuit has been quickly dropped by Oneok , probably because Twitter simply removed the account in question. Natural gas distributor Oneok Inc. has sued Twitter for trademark infringement. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in U.S. District C...
Judge to Microsoft: OK, You Can Keep Selling Word For a Couple More Days
If you’ve been following the story about the ban of Microsoft Word , due to a lawsuit from Canadian company i4i Inc regarding Microsoft’s XML patents, you know that Microsoft has originally been given 60 days to pull Word from the market....
STUDY: 20% Increase in Companies Blocking Social Media Sites
Just off the heels of a report that 45% of employers now screen social media profiles during the hiring process is more research on corporate social media behavior. It turns out that more and more companies are doing more than just screening – ...
Facebook’s Twitter App: How Far Will It Go?
Last night, Facebook launched an application that allows users to simultaneously update both a Facebook Page and a Twitter account. This is intriguing for a few reasons beyond the simple utility of it, as it could be a sign of things to come in terms...
5 Essential Tips for Promoting Your Charity Using Social Media
For non-profit organizations and other charities, social media is potentially an incredibly powerful tool to get the word out, connect with constituents, rally support, and even raise money. But, like for any business, social media will only pay divi...
Oprah Sues Seedy Online Marketers
Banner ads that include celebrities are nothing new, and a common tactic used by marketers to improve click-thru rates. However, in most cases, the celebrities being featured aren’t actually being paid for the endorsement. Oprah has decided to do s...
The Facebook Road Trip: “People Aren’t a Series of Updates” [VIDEO]
Graham Smith took a Facebook road trip for his grad school thesis project, and with help from pal Josh Baron made a 15-minute thought-provoking documentary about going “on a journey to bridge the gap between relationships.” The pair trave...
10 Things You Must Do to Earn Your Audience’s Trust
Brandon Mendelson is the coordinator for the Business Card Build-Off , part of America’s largest crowdfunded project, A Million High Fives. Follow @BJMendelson for project updates. Lincoln once said, “With the public trust, anything is po...
Twitter and Facebook DDoS Attacks Targeted One Man
Did Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube, Google Sites and Google’s Blogger all get attacked yesterday to silence one man? According to the testimony of a Facebook executive, they did. A blogger in the Republic of Georgia with the username C...
When Was Podcasting Invented? Company’s Curious Patent Says 2003
The US Patent Office doesn’t always seem to be in touch with the Internet. They infamously awarded Amazon its “one-click” patent in ecommerce, while Friendster holds a number of patents relating to social networking of questionable merit. Now, ...
OneWed Wants to Make Wedding Planning Social
Okay, so what happens when you get an invite from a friend about his or her wedding? You get a few invites, probably a link to TheKnot , and maybe a list of pre-approved things you can buy the couple. Even if you’re one of the bridesmaids, you&...
Taking Over the iPhones of the World, One SMS at a Time
On Thursday, at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, two researches will reveal a bug which allows an attacker to take control over the victim’s iPhone by sending a couple of SMS messages. If you’re the victim, you will pr...
