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When you ask someone what a “Social Network” is, their reply will probably be “Facebook”. We’re familiar with the experience on Facebook, you have to sign up using your real identity. In fact, if you use a fake one, you risk being kicked off. Twitter doesn’t require your real name, but the people who...
Today US President, Barack Obama, hosted a jobs/economy Town Hall on LinkedIn. We decided to make our daily Big Question center on the same theme. What role do you think the Web plays in an economic recovery? We asked and you answered, then we culled your responses from Twitter and Facebook and we used...
Perhaps things aren’t so dire for Google+ after all. Last week the company opened Google+ to the public, and traffic rocketed. Web traffic tracker Experian Hitwise reported this afternoon that Google+ now number 8 in its rankings of top social networking and forums Web sites, and got 15 million U.S. visitors last week, putting...
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Digging For Content Thoora was founded in 2008, and it originally launched as a real-time news aggregator, which we covered back in 2009. But this new iteration is about much more than scanning the news. This is a toolkit for users to explore and research topics, and it learns more about them as its...
In a recent international study by Experian Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service with the world’s largest sample of internet users, the home Internet usage of various individuals from eight different countries accessing Facebook during August 2011 has been revealed. Brazil, Singapore, US, India, New Zealand, France, Australia and the UK all have...
Chinese social network Renren has purchased China-based video and photo sharing site 56.com.The deal size is around $80 million, according to a release. Founded in 2005, 56.com is a Chinese video sharing site where users can upload, view and share videos, similar to YouTube. The majority of the videos on the site are user-generated,...
The video below shows TAG Heuer’s Mikrotimer Flying 1000 Concept watch in action. This mechanical watch times things to 1/1000th of a second – 300 times faster than a human blink. As the watch spins maniacally, it’s actually meting out 1/1000ths of a second at 500 Hz. That means the small balance wheel inside...
By now everyone is pretty much in love with Instagram as it continues to get better and better and our need to share photos of basically everything only increases. Who you follow on Instagram, however, can often times greatly impact your experience of the app. In many ways it’s difficult to discover new people...
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