Aiming to hit Facebook in a vulnerable spot, Google on Thursday opened Google+ to teens — and added security enhancements designed to help secure their privacy. In a post explaining the move, Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product at Google+, doesn’t mention Facebook by name, but dubs current social media sharing “second-rate.” “In life, for … Continued
Game-maker Zynga is launching a new way to connect and play with your friends on Facebook, with a mass participation Bingo game. The game is being release on Thursday in beta to a small group and gradually rolled out to millions on Facebook in the next few weeks. The game is visually beautiful and the … Continued
Sure, on YouTube, you’ve got your IGN and G4 videos that keep you updated with the latest in gaming news and technological eye candy. But what about the deep cuts lurking within the rest of the gaming section? The platform is full of speed runs, time trials, reviews and play-throughs by lifelong gamers who have … Continued
European Internet users may be getting better control over information posted online, thanks to some proposed sweeping reforms lawmakers proposed Wednesday designed to protect digital privacy. The suggested law calls for a “right to be forgotten” and a “right to data portability.” The former would require Internet companies such as Facebook and Google to completely … Continued
Megan Berry is Senior Marketing Manager for Klout, the standard for online influence. She also blogs at The Huffington Post and Brazen Careerist. You can follow her on Twitter as @meganberry. Building a community around your startup can be one of the cheapest ways to create momentum for your product. A community is much more … Continued
Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers — the company announced its acquisition of spam and malware protection service Dasient on Monday. Dasient will be integrated into Twitter’s “revenue engineering team because they have a deep understanding of advertising-platform security issues,” says Rachael … Continued
Today’s Meme Machine features cats and tablets. While some don’t understand the point of a tablet, as shown in the parody commercial for Samsung, cats get it. Tablets are the future, and these cats are living in a world where technology exists to enter the feline mind through Nyan Cat-dream invasion. If that’s not enough … Continued
COVER: Crowd Control / by Bill Wasik / pg. 76 From the Arab Spring to the London Riots to Occupy Wall Street, a new breed of revolutionaries – networked and mobile – provides an arresting model for how social media can fuel civil unrest. WIRED’s Bill Wasik, one of the originators of “flash mobs,” takes … Continued
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