I sometimes wonder about the decision-making process at Foursquare HQ. Recently, I saw that Foursquare is killing its city guide app to focus on the check-in app Swarm and wondered again. A decade ago, they killed their very successful app to promote their check-in app, Swarm. They now decided to kill the app totally and focus on Swarm—such … Read more
I still don’ t get it what Fousquare does. It should have kept Foursquare and integrate new functions instead of creating Swarm. I feel like they themselves are destroying their good brand. Propaganda Is the New Frontier for Fake Social Media Accounts Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Fake social media accounts are spreading pro-Chinese propaganda on Twitter, disseminating … Read more
Support from Zynga helps Bitcoin break the $1,000 valuation mark again The price of Bitcoin is back over US$1,000 after gaming giant Zynga became the latest company to adopt the virtual currency…. Aaron Swartz’s father, Bob Swartz, discusses his son’s death It’s been nearly a year since my friend Aaron Swartz killed himself, Foursquare details how it rewards … Read more
What is Tor and why does it matter? We all live in public, at least as far as the US National Security Agency is concerned. As Internet users and global citizens become more aware of surveillance activities that the US and other countries are doing on the World Wide Web, there are those who seek to … Read more
Muslim Brotherhood Teaches a Lesson in Elections in the Age of Twitter and Google Spreadsheets from technosociology by zeynep Shortly after the announcement that Mohamed Morsi had won Egypt?s presidential elections, political scientist Marc Lynch asks a very good question: Indeed, ex-president Hosni Mobarak had handily ?won? the ?elections? in 1987, 1993, 1999 and 2005, … Read more
U.S. Still Requests More Google User Data Than Any Other Country from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Alan Turing?s 100th: 12 Celebratory Images From Across the Web from Mashable! by Allegra Tepper HOWTO think like Alan Turing from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow In early celebration of the Turing centenary this week, Ars Technica’s Matthew Lasar … Read more
Lokasyon uygulamalarıyla artık hepimiz ?Büyük Biraderiz? George Orwell, meşhur romanı 1984?te karanlık bir gelecek dünyası hayal eder. Tek partinin hakim olduğu bu dünyada insanların yaptıkları her hareket ?Büyük Birader? tarafından takip edilmektedir. Orwell?in 1940?lı yıllarda yazdığı bu romanında yaptığı tahminin ne kadar doğu olduğunu bugün görüyoruz. Orwell?in tahmin edemediği ise insanların bilerek, severek ve isteyerek başkaları … Read more
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Yahoo?s Acquisition Strategy: Technology, Content and Users (Plus Moms and Babies) from Mashable! by Ben Parr The New Facebook Messages: A Walkthrough [SCREENSHOTS] from Mashable! by Ben Parr Study: Facebook increases face-to-face socializing from All Facebook by Meredith Singer Do you ever worry about your preference to message a friend over Facebook then talk to … Read more
Facebook Status Chart Reveals When Breakups Occur from All Facebook by Jackie Cohen Dating services and other marketers of wares that appeal to the newly single, take note: Facebook relationship statuses most frequently go from ?in a relationship? to ?single? right before spring break. This infographic from David McCandless?s presentation at TED this past August … Read more
Featured Report: The Future of Millennials Tech experts generally believe that today’s tech-savvy young people – the ‘digital natives‘ who are known for enthusiastically embracing social networking – will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities.Experts surveyed say that the advantages Millennials see in … Read more