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Storyful News App Is A Great Idea, But Too Buggy To Rely On [Review]
Too slow, too often: Storyful for iOS struggles to live up to its name Storyful for iOS says it can help you “separate the news from the noise.” It plucks interesting news stories from social media networks, spotting the stuff that’s trending and turning it into a news feed. Tha...
New Legislation Introduced In Order To Protect Your Passwords From Inquisitive Employers
Ongoing concerns over the practice of employers requiring prospective and current employees to hand over their social media passwords has led to the introduction of new legislation prohibiting the practice. According to Senator Richard Blumenthal’s (D-CT) government page, the Password Prot...
Forget recipes, Food52 wants to crowdsource cooking itself
Food52 founders Amanda Hesser (left) and Merrill StubbsWhen Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs founded Food52 in 2009 they were looking for a way to create the world's first crowdsourced cookbook. After 52 weeks (hence the name) of online recipe contests, they had the 140 dishes needed for their co...
How to Tell if You (Or Someone You Know) Are a Twitter Assclown [Social Media]
You know Klout. It gathers your social media data to measure your influence. But Klout is dumb. Klout makes people think I am a good mom. But what if you could mine social data to tell you how insufferable any given person is on Twitter? That sounds a good deal more fun.More »
Apple won't buy Twitter, but Google might
Whenever a major acquisition occurs, the world scrambles to figure out which companies...
Study: Those Social Media Logos On TV Actually Work
There is hardly a program or ad on TV these days that doesn’t ask its viewers to like its Facebook page or tweet about it. According to a new survey by global consulting firm Accenture, there’s a simple reason for this: those social media symbols actually work. Accenture found that, i...
Can A Dumb Social Media Tool Turn This Chump Into the Internet's Top Mom? (Updated) [Klout]
There are a lot of services that purport to measure your online influence. Klout, Kred, and PeerIndex will slice and dice your social media presence, and turn you into a number. The higher your number, they argue, the more influential you are. It's bullshit. But it's bullshit that's increasingly ...
Should Apple buy Twitter?
Now that Apple has shown how it plans to spend some of its staggering $100-billion cash hoard — by paying a dividend and buying back its own shares — plenty of people have ideas about what else it could do with that growing mountain of money. Barry Ritholtz, a widely followed financia...
Think IT Consumerization Is About iPads And iPhones? If So, You're Missing The Point
The consumerization of IT is about more than just a handful of users bringing their own devices into the office. That’s the big take away from the first morning here the CITE Conference in San Francisco. The real story is that movement may have started out with people taking their iPads to...
Facebook Messenger Brings Your News Feed and Chat to Your Windows Desktop [Facebook]
If you feel weirdly disconnected from your Facebook profile when you're not logged in, try out the new Facebook Messenger application, which is available for Windows now. The new app follows the mobile Facebook Messenger applications released last summer, and a version for OS X is reportedly on ...
