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The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Your phone company is screwing you on text messaging. SMS messages cost them next to nothing, yet they charge you up the yin-yang. So how’s about sticking it to the phone company with some viable alternatives to SMS messaging? https://gizmodo.com/at-ts-new-text-plan-overcharges-you-by-10-000-000-perce-5832245 Decent Alternatives Kik Platforms Supported: iOS, Android, Windows Phone Cost: Free What’s Good: It’s totally…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 13

Americans Spend 53 Billion Minutes A Month on Facebook, Wait, What?

Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other US website. And cumulatively, it’s not a small amount of time, it’s a lot of time. Nielsen estimates that Americans spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook during the month of May. These 53 billion minutes are equal to 100,000 years or 36.8 million days. Before your…

Social Media Kelly Sep 12

Mark Zuckerberg Sucks at Coding Now

Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the coding wiz he used to be. When he was young and not rich, he would put himself through coding marathon sessions, banging out lines like Lohan. It’s true! I saw it in The Social Network. No more though. He doesn’t code much nowadays and when he does, he sucks. According to…

Social Media Casey Chan Sep 12

Facebook Edges Out Toilets On Survey of “Things You Can’t Live Without”

To urinate or update Facebook with pics from last night’s drunken debauchery? That is the fundamental anatomical pop culture question for our time. This is true! You see, according to a new survey about life’s necessities, people with bladders far stronger and larger than mine would rather have Facebook in their lives than a toilet.…

Social Media Jack Loftus Sep 11

TechCrunch on Facebook Music: The Great Music Unifier

A source for TechCrunch has handed them a little more info about Facebook’s planned new role as music’s connective tissue. In a nutshell, you’ll be able to share what you’re streaming across whatever service, be it MOG or Spotify, you use. That’s huge. https://gizmodo.com/music-needs-connective-tissue-and-facebook-wants-to-b-5836721 The new service—rumors have it as Facebook Vibes—will essentially Last.fm-style scrobble…

Social Media Kwame Opam Sep 10

Twitter Doesn’t Give a Damn Who You Are

Twitter had a meeting yesterday to talk about how big it was. But what really came across was that while Facebook and Google+ value your identity, Twitter doesn’t care who you are, as long as you’ve got something to say. Google Facebook and Twitter now all have similar products. But Twitter CEO Dick Costolo (somewhat…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 9

Facebook’s Smart Lists Make Social Circles for You

If you like the idea of dividing up your friends into discrete groups like Google+ does but don’t have the energy for that much dragging and dropping—or for Google+, generally—Facebook’s new Smart Lists could be a tender mercy. The feature—which started rolling out recently to select users, and will presumably see broader deployment soon—automatically groups…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 9

Facebook Improves Its iPhone App, iPad App Still MIA

Download the new Facebook app for iOS and you’ll be able to tag your friends and places, share external links from a web view and bring some improved privacy settings to your iPhone. Though the iPhone app is better than ever, the iPad app is still MIA. And it looks like it won’t be arriving…

Tech News Kelly Sep 6

Facebook Is Getting a Translate Button for Your International Friends

According to Inside Facebook, Facebook is currently testing a translate button for international users to getting around the language barrier. Facebook will provide a button to translate users’ comments on the fly. Inside Facebook reports that only a few languages, including Spanish, French, Hebrew, and Chinese, are currently supported, but that’s just the start. The…

Social Media Kwame Opam Sep 3

Zuckerberg! Airplay! And Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Zuck Tops Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was joined by the Big Bosses…

Social Media Brian Barrett Sep 1

The End of Silicon Valley

It’s the end of the summer. And in Silicon Valley, it’s the end of an era. The garage days are over. It’s time to move on. The future belongs to the dorm. Stanford begat Silicon Valley. The history of Silicon Valley is largely the history of California universities: Stanford and Berkeley and Cal Poly graduates.…

Tech News Mat Honan Sep 1

Music Needs ‘Connective Tissue’ and Facebook Wants To Build It

As details emerge about Facebook’s plan to integrate with music services to let friends share their listening experience, one thing is abundantly clear: Music fans and the music industry desperately need this—or something like it—to happen. Here’s the core of the problem. When music fans use an online music service, whether that means free music…

Social Media Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver Sep 1

Like This Box? Push the Button

I have no taste in art—if you tell me a piece is good, I’ll have to take your word for it. But I know how good Like This is because it tells me exactly how many other people like it too. Built by German artist Mario Klingemann and on display at the Ultra Social exhibition…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola Sep 1

Facebook Music Coming September 22nd?

File this one under rumor, but CNBC just tweeted that Facebook is preparing to launch a new music service on September 22nd, which just happens to be the date of their annual f8 developer conference. What a coinkidink. The new service is rumored to be called Facebook Vibes (yeah man, totally trippy). There’s some speculation…

Social Media Brent Rose Aug 31

How Beyonce Is Bigger Than Hurricanes, Earthquakes and SuperBowl Sunday

When I was a child, there was a number that crudely measured how many people paid attention to something. It was called the Nielsen rating. Perhaps you remember it. Today it’s an unimportant relic that only reveals what was happening. The VMAs had its biggest show ever this year. A record-breaking 12.4 million people tuned…

Social Media Mat Honan Aug 30

Foursquare for Android Is Now Prettier and More Connected

Foursquare’s most recent update for the Android has been pushed live (I actually received my update notice while writing this post) and offers a bevy of new features and menu redesigns. Here are some of the highlights. As soon as you start the app, you’ll notice a redesigned title bar with more space between tabs…

Social Media Andrew Tarantola Aug 30

Familiar Headphones, Tweeting Strangers, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. Klipsch Opens Pre-Orders for Android-Friendly Ear Buds The Klipsch S4As look awfully familiar. Where on earth have…

Social Media Brian Barrett Aug 29

Shutting Down the Internet Only Accelerates Revolutions

Though many of the Middle Eastern revolutions have come and gone, the prevailing reasons behind them are still under much debate. The conflict largely hinges on whether or not social media can create action. According to one theory, it can actually stop it. Navid Hassanpour, a political science graduate student at Yale University, wrote his…

Social Media Kwame Opam Aug 29

Facebook Making Photos Bigger and Faster

Some welcome Facebook news, for a change! The AP reports Facebook’s finally bumping up the resolution on photo uploads—no word on how much—and halving the upload time. Nifty! All the better for the deluge of filtered horror. [Yahoo!] https://gizmodo.com/facebook-will-kill-photo-filters-for-everyone-5834133

Social Media Sam Biddle Aug 26

Facebook Drunks, Tweeting Gangs, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. How Your Google Algorithm Sausage Gets Made Google takes us deep inside the process of how its…

Tech News Brian Barrett Aug 25

The Best Ways to Kill Your SMS Plan

Americans Spend 53 Billion Minutes A Month on Facebook, Wait, What?

Mark Zuckerberg Sucks at Coding Now

Facebook Edges Out Toilets On Survey of “Things You Can’t Live Without”

TechCrunch on Facebook Music: The Great Music Unifier

Twitter Doesn’t Give a Damn Who You Are

Facebook’s Smart Lists Make Social Circles for You

Facebook Improves Its iPhone App, iPad App Still MIA

Facebook Is Getting a Translate Button for Your International Friends

Zuckerberg! Airplay! And Other Stories We Didn’t Post

The End of Silicon Valley

Music Needs ‘Connective Tissue’ and Facebook Wants To Build It

Like This Box? Push the Button

Facebook Music Coming September 22nd?

How Beyonce Is Bigger Than Hurricanes, Earthquakes and SuperBowl Sunday

Foursquare for Android Is Now Prettier and More Connected

Familiar Headphones, Tweeting Strangers, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Shutting Down the Internet Only Accelerates Revolutions

Facebook Making Photos Bigger and Faster

Facebook Drunks, Tweeting Gangs, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

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