Facebook is about to get it first box office coup as Tomorrow, When the War Began, an Australian smash hit title, is to become the first film to be released on the social network at the same time that it hits cinemas in the US. The film will be available on Facebook when it debuts...
Daily Archives: February 15, 2012
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and display a preferred pseudonym instead of their birth name. Those with verified accounts will gain more prominent placement in Facebook’s “People To Subscribe To” suggestions. Verified accounts are not a departure from...
Talking Points From Tesla’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings Statement
Things are going smoothly for Tesla. Their big Model X debut was a success, their cars are pre-ordered to capacity, and new business opportunities are presenting themselves. They’re still posting a net loss, of course, but that was expected and will continue for another year or so. Here are the most salient points from...
iPhone Address Book Fiasco Should Be Apple’s Cue to Build Its Own Social Network
Like what? Apple is already working on an update that will require apps to obtain explicit permission before accessing your address book, the same way they have to ask for permission to access your geographic location and Twitter account. But why stop there? Apple can take all that address book data and make a...
Dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing CSS & HTML code
Dabblet, created by Lea Verou, is an “interactive playground” for trying out snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won’t have to add any prefixes in your CSS code, and you can save your work in Github gists, embed it into other websites or share it with others. Like jsFiddle and JSBin, this is a tool...
Daily Wrap: Twitter Uploads Your Address Book Too and more
Twitter Is The Latest Company To Admit It Uploads Your Address Book While the news that Path was uploading your entire address book to their servers, sans notification, was a shock, it came as an even larger surprise as other companies sheepishly admitted to doing the same. Instagram avoided a PR disaster by quickly...
Here’s What Happens When The Biggest Company In The World Sees Its Stock Go Parabolic
Here’s a super-cool chart from Market Anthropology, looking at three times the biggest company in the world saw its stock go totally nuts. Each time it comes around a market peak. Make of it what you will. Market Anthropology Read more at Market Anthropology Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/_-QjndymmqY/what-happens-when-the-biggest-company-in-the-world-sees-its-stock-go-parabolic-2012-2
As of today, everyone is now using the ‘new new’ version of Twitter
The eighth of December in the year of 2011 will forever be remembered as the day that Twitter changed forever. Ok, maybe the redesign it announced last year wasn’t that big of a deal, but it took a few months to roll out to everyone as the company tweaked it for optimal performance. Twitter...
Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley
With its newest facility, Vantage Data Centers wants to prove that a low-power data center in Silicon Valley is not an oxymoron. Vantage’s newest Santa Clara, Calif., data center claims an impressive 1.12 PUE energy rating. PUE, or the power use efficiency number, is a commonly used measure to show how efficiently a data...
Why Google Didn’t Build Search, Plus Your Body
Universal Search Is Not For Everything Google is the go-to place for most people to find answers online. As that trend became clear, Google introduced Universal Search in 2007, so its search results could display multiple kinds of results. Instead of just showing its text list of websites, Google’s main search started to incorporate...