Security software company McAfee today announced the launch of ‘Social Protection’, a new Facebook app and browser plug-in developed by Intel’s Software and Services Group that basically protects your photos…
“Nobody has nailed ‘social travel’ yet, but someone will eventually,” Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin told me a few months ago. Last March, the company unveiled its social travel planning Web…
Silp, the Swiss startup behind a namesake social recruiting service that was launched a mere 12 days ago (as covered by GigaOm and others), has seen a tremendous amount of…
Tech juggernaut Hewlett-Packard this morning announced that Snapfish, a Web-based photo sharing and printing service it acquired back in 2005, has debuted a new Web app called SocialPics. Basically, it…
App.net, the in-development pay-to-use social network that’s been making waves recently, has got its first third-party client app in the form of Hooha, which is now available on Google Play….
Kate Miltner‘s most prominent claim to fame is penning her masters dissertation at the London School of Economics on LOLcats and other popular Internet memes. You can download it here…
Earlier this month, Google announced that its most successful Google+ feature – Hangouts – would be breaking free of the confines of Google’s own sites and making its first external…
The Government in India doesn’t mess around when it comes to what its population can and can’t see on the Internet in its country. The Government has issued a document…
Last week, we reported that Google was rolling out custom URLs for major brands on Google+, and today that has expanded to more brands as well as verified individuals. Unfortunately,…
Social media monitoring platform BuzzNumbers has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Sentia Media, the two companies have announced today. Since its founding in Sydney in 1982 as MediaMonitors, the…
We understand that there’s great value associated with Twitter’s follow graph data, and we can confirm that it is no longer available within Instagram. I haven’t been a tech journalist…
The value of Klout, Kred, PeerIndex and the whole social influence measurement sector has been chewed over many times – most recently on our backchannel just now, when West Coast…
Google+ has a really great experience for its stream, it surfaces posts that are most active. In addition, there is a slider control to bring “hot news” into your main…
When you’re an “Internet” company that provides a free service, you’re not thinking about capping out on your growth. For a photo-sharing app, ten million users is an absolute dream…
Rob Gabel, formerly an executive at companies like LowerMyBills, Netflix and Machinima, is in the process of closing a $500,000 seed round for his new venture Tubular Labs, an SEC…
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