Using the connections between friends on Facebook, an intern at the company has created a remarkable map of the world.
Paul Butler usually works as a grunt on the data infrastructure engineering team at Facebook, which gives him ...READ»
DailyBooth, the site that replaces status updates with status photographs, is introducing a new iPhone app tailored to its under 25-year-old fan base that could also help it go mainstream.READ»
Facebook's gaming platform, spurred on by huge successes like Zynga, has introduced social gaming to the masses and kick-started a minor gaming revolution. On the other hand, it's also caused massive clutter in the news feeds of ...READ»
Twitter's growing very, very fast. The number of ways of using tweets is rising fast, too, and with the explosion of messages, a new problem: Tweet spam. Kosmix's Tweetbeat may be the answer, and it's being tested with World Cup ...READ»
Facebook's happiness measurements have been little more than novelties so far. But the analytics team has just tweaked its system to cover more of the world, and turned the happiness index into a serious research tool. The first ...READ»
Facebook is a friendly distraction for most of us, but that doesn't mean it can't also be a tool: Facebook's been exploring those billions of status updates as a social data source for example. The data on happiness indices around the ...READ»
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»
Facebook's released a very detailed analysis of the trends in status updates for 2009, and it's fascinating stuff. For example, did you know Facebookers are depressed on Mondays, and mourned Patrick Swayze about as much as Michael Jackson?READ»
A big surprise was buried in Google's real time search cavalcade yesterday: The teeny, tiny role that Facebook played in the news.
Accompanied by lots of "wow! look at that!" speech, Google's real-time search updates were the ...READ»
Facebook, in its ceaseless quest to attract traffic to its site and sew up as much of the social Web as it possibly can, is soon to release a new tool that lets you embed elements of a Facebook page into any normal Web page.
The ...READ»
We know Google's desperate to get its paws on real-time social networking data, but it's apparently just pulled off a surprising move in exactly that direction: It's enabled real-time comment searching in YouTube. Now if their ...READ»
Nokia's moving fast to catch up with current tech memes: As well as leaping into the smartbook and netbook fray, it's also getting into social net "lifecasting" thanks to a new Ovi app that connects to Facebook.
That all sounds ...READ»
There are plenty of tools out there for adding "friends" to your social network: Glue lets you connect with others who like the same media and entertainment sites as you, Twinkle lets you discover people tweeting near you, ...READ»
