I am totally convinced that the world of social media is not consolidating around one “winner takes all” social platform.
– Fred Wilson
Nothing wrong with MySpace price. Just our totally screwing up every way. Agree Facebook revenues will zoom, but still Apple cheap.
— Rupert Murdoch, via Twitter
Peter Kafka in Media on January 25 at 4:00 am PT
An ad tech linkup that makes sense.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in News on December 15, 2011 at 5:38 am PT
Facebook announced on its
blog this morning that it will be rolling out Timeline — a new view of Facebook profiles that is meant to “tell the story of your life” by featuring old photos as well as new — to all users worldwide. The Timeline feature was one in a series of product announcements the social networking site made at its
f8 developers conference in September; until now,
it had only started rolling out in New Zealand.
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on December 9, 2011 at 4:11 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 6, 2011 at 11:48 am PT
The social search start-up has hired Duncan Greatwood, the founder who sold PostPath to Cisco Sytems in 2008.
Like that’s how most people start fighting because that’s how most of the fights in my school happen — because of some Facebook stuff, because of something you post, or like because somebody didn’t like your pictures.
– A middle school girl who took part in the Pew study “Teens, Kindness and Cruelty on Social Network Sites”
If you project forward 10 years, each person will share about 1,000 times more things per day than they are now.
— Mark Zuckerberg to reporters on a recent recruiting trip to Harvard
Robert Lee Hotz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 1, 2011 at 5:52 pm PT
Want to monitor an earthquake, track political activity or predict the ups and downs of the stock market? Researchers have found a bonanza of real-time data in the torrential flow of Twitter feeds.
Drake Martinet in News on September 16, 2011 at 11:01 am PT
Ever tried to search Twitter for something relatively simple? Not good? The high-octane brains behind start-up Qwhisper agree.
