If there’s one law when it comes to Facebook watching, it’s that there’s no good idea in social media that Facebook won’t eventually imitate. Hence, the news that Facebook will be turning Instagram into Instavine is, perhaps, not a big surprise. Read the rest of this entry »
Google is, for better or worse, a repository of many things. Among those things are sites that can direct you to child pornography. And Google has officially decided to put an end to it, once and for all. Read the rest of this entry »
Publicity stunts don’t get much more straightforward than this. Pink Floyd has announced that they’ll release their entire catalog on Spotify, provided you listen to their seminal song “Wish You Were Here” one million times. No, really. Read the rest of this entry »
As PRISM starts unwinding, one thing that will come to light is how easily companies complied with the ruling. It turns out that the staunchest defender of your civil rights was, of all companies, Yahoo!. Yes, Yahoo!. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve known Facebook was toying with hashtags, possibly because they want to force Twitter off the site, but Facebook being Facebook, we didn’t know when, or if, it was going to happen. Apparently it’ll be starting today! In theory! Read the rest of this entry »
Since we’ve discovered that the NSA was essentially reading all our bad jokes about Game of Thrones, it’s been wondered how long it would be before the public would start demanding more accountability for the data. Not long, as it turns out, but it’s not a civil rights activist or a lawmaker. It’s a man currently on trial for bank robbery in Florida. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m generally an Android user, largely because I’ve run out of patience with Apple’s proprietary port shtick. (Hey, we’ve all got our pet peeves!) But it turns out to be useful perspective when trying out iOS 7, because it illustrates where the OS has improved… and where it could still do better. Read the rest of this entry »
Pictured: Your average Facebook stockholder, apparently.
So, Mark Zuckerberg got in front of a whole bunch of angry investors at a hotel near the airport. This is not usually a scenario that ends well for those involved, but Zuckerberg’s job, as the head of a company valued in the billions, is apparently not so much to guide the company to profitability, but to explain to old people how the product they invested in actually works. Read the rest of this entry »
Unless you’ve been residing under a proverbial rock, you know that it was recently revealed that the government has been pretty much going through everything we post on the Internet, and the reaction has been…pretty much only news media really giving a sh*t. Americans, it turns out, are pretty OK with the government riffling through their stuff in the name of safety. The common refrain is “I’ve got nothing to hide!”
And, no, most of us don’t have anything to hide. In fact, the vast majority of us will never do anything the government cares about. But that’s not why you should care about your privacy. Read the rest of this entry »
