John Paczkowski

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More Women Crashing Google+ Sausage Party

Apparently, Google+ isn’t quite the frat party it first appeared to be.

Early reports had figured the membership of Google+ to be upwards of 87 percent male. But evidently the data on which those estimates were based — culled from sites like Socialstatistics.com and Findpeopleonplus.com — was skewed. Now, new analysis performed by Paul Allen of FamilyLink and Ancestry.com shows a very different gender balance.

That’s a dude-heavy social environment, compared to its more gender-balanced rival Facebook, but one whose gender distribution is a bit more equitable than the 90:10 ratio of men to women previously reported.

And it might be becoming more balanced by the day. According to Allen’s estimates, Google+ was 77 percent male and 23 percent female on July 4. Three days later it was 68.4 percent male and 31.6 percent female, and today it’s nearing a 2-to-1 male/female ratio.

That said, it was an awesome picture.

[Image credit: Evil Milk]

Twitter’s Tanking

December 30, 2013 at 6:49 am PT

2013 Was a Good Year for Chromebooks

December 29, 2013 at 2:12 pm PT

BlackBerry Pulls Latest Twitter for BB10 Update

December 29, 2013 at 5:58 am PT

Apple CEO Tim Cook Made $4.25 Million This Year

December 28, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald