These days, we're all public figures. We're sharing our friends on Facebook, our photos on Flickr, our music on Last.fm, and our goofy links insightful observations on Twitter. So when Fast Company set out to capture ...READ»
If you're a nerd, you have spent the last year explaining to your friends the virtue (or downfall) of Twitter and Facebook. In another year, you'll have a third prong to your presentation: Tumblr.
Tumblr is a little bit the ...READ»
Microsoft must really feel the heat from Apple's success. In a new ad campaign, the technology behemoth targets the hidden costs of iPod ownership. There's also a confusing leak pointing to a potential Zune-based phone that's due in ...READ»
Is Twitter only about accumulating as many followers as possible, or is there a better way for small business owners to use this versatile communications and marketing tool?READ»
For a little over three years, Ning has offered its platform for users to create their own online social networking sites. Now the company is adding a serious upgrade: Developers of each social network site will gain access to new ...READ»
Inventor Ray Kurzweil was never your typical entrepreneur. His first company developed omni-font optical character recognition, leading to the invention of the flatbed scanner, a technology he later sold to ...READ»
Twitter has some very interesting plans for its newly-unveiled live search function: soon it will activate crawlers that will index the links users include in their Tweets. In one fell swoop that turns Twitter into an even more ...READ»
Apple and Twitter sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I... well, you know the rest of that rhyme. There's a fascinating little rumor that recently surfaced on the Internet: Apple is interested in acquiring the hot little social ...READ»
In the great wired tradition of his campaign, President Obama has opened White House accounts on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr (which delivered this photo, an instant classic). The accounts are part of the President's ...READ»
In its battle for success, Twitter just made what looks like a minor change, but it could actually transform the lifecasting networking site in terms of increased relevance, and also turn it into a very powerful tool. The ...READ»
We often engage in conversations with our readers on Twitter. Our most recent discussion centered on the future of ideas, whether ides even matter, and when it comes to ideas vs. execution, which one is more important. Follow the ...READ»
Some new data from Nielsen Online suggests that Twitter has a retention rate of just 40% after one month of usage--60% of users leave. This is despite Twitter's growth in user numbers, including its adoption by celebrities like ...READ»
Glue is a free Firefox add-on that lets you take your social network to every major site you visit. At heart, it's a semantic Web tool: it can "read" and contextualize the content on the sites you visit, and serve up your ...READ»
As the world watches the rising death toll from the Mexican outbreak of swine influenza, and wonders what's going to happen next, it looks like new media darling Twitter has caught a bad case of H1N1 itself. The social networking ...READ»
A mission specialist on the space shuttle Atlantis announced this week that he will use Twitter from space during the shuttle's next mission in May.
If you're wondering whether NASA has some kind of built-in tweet software on ...READ»
With Governor Schwarzenegger's approval ratings plummeting and a budget crisis looming, Californians are already looking for their next gubernatorial savior--and Silicon Valley is stocking the till.
The Valley used to be the ...READ»
The biggest question in the technology world these days is who will buy Twitter? The leading contender is probably Google, since the search giant has what seems like an unlimited amount of money and a history of scooping up ...READ»
You'd think people would know better than to share damaging info online. Alas, no. Not even close.
On the Internet, anything that can be used to act stupid will be used to act stupid. Like the bank intern who told the ...READ»
There' s no question that Twitter has become the next big thing in internet social networking.Most celebrities have a twitter channel as part of their marketing and promotion. And now businesses are seeing Twitter as a business tool.READ»
Sure, you're sick of Twitter, Bush, and bad news about the economy. But this topics still gin up some entertaining news--so check out the related stories that bubbled to the top of the social Web this week. FastCompany.com's best of ...READ»
Oprah is now officially on Twitter.
The Chicago talk show host completed her first tweet just this morning, and is devoting a block of time in her broadcast today to discussing the microblogging site. "HI TWITTERS. THANK ...READ»
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans. It should come as no surprise, then, that social Web technologies have a complex relationship with ...READ»
The Internet is buzzing with discussion on exactly how the social-network site Twitter can turn its business into profit. With a simple purpose--short message sharing--and millions of users you'd think it'd be easy. But some new ...READ»
