An attempt to create a social network funded by user subscription fees rather than advertising has reached its first goal: $500,000 in funding towards set-up fees. App.net set up its own crowdsourcing project along the lines of Kickstarter, with a goal of raising half a million dollars. At the time of writing it had picked […]
The term Viral Video has come to be known as many things, but the general term seems to suggest that the content became very popular very quickly. Here’s a short documentary from PBS explaining what the organization thinks is a viral video. My pet peeve has always been when marketing campaigns label their videos as […]
Facebook Stories is a fairly recent innovation from Facebook. With the subtitle of “People using Facebook in extraordinary ways”, videos can be uploaded here to exhibit how Facebook can be used to change people’s lives. The first video for August tells a truly inspiring story of how Mayank Sharma lost 27 years of his life in […]
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I have been a Joss Whedon fan since Buffy, and he continues to prove himself a god amongst men. Most recently The Avengers earned him high accolades; but today I want to talk about a little project he did called Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. I am certain any reader of this site is intimately […]
Dropbox has confirmed recent spam received by users was indeed the result of a security breach. It’s responding by introducing several new security measures. The company’s investigation into the spam complaints found that several accounts had been accessed without authorization because the account holders had used the same username and password combination on Dropbox as […]
After a legal battle lasting more than two years, the British man convicted for a joking comment on Twitter has had his conviction quashed. We’ve previously covered various events in the case of Paul Chambers, so here’s a quick recap: In January 2010 he heard that ongoing bad weather might delay his flight and tweeted: […]
Is this how the process works for you? I often find this to be far too true. Though perhaps with the slight amendment of at least pretending to go off and do work or sleep but then start surfing again via a different device and be looped back into the never ending circle of surfing […]
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The number of Facebook users in the United States has dropped by just over 1.1 percent this year according to one analyst. It’s not necessarily cause for major panic, but the theory that there’s an inherent limit to market penetration is starting to look more credible. The report comes from Capstone Investments and covers changes […]