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Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, as Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on July 25, 2011 at 6:14 am PT

It’s the first board seat ever for Horowitz, who has been a bit busy of late launching the search giant’s first successful social networking product.

Finding the Scale of the Rest of the World Lacking, Early Designer Rejoins Facebook

Liz Gannes in Social on February 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Aaron Sittig, who left Facebook after being the company’s lead designer for five years, is now back at the mother ship, having rejoined in January with the title “product architect.”

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Early Adopter: The Daytum iPhone App Visualizes Your Life (and Lunch) as Data

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 10, 2011 at 11:03 am PT

Want to do some serious numerical navel-gazing like the pros? Need to know how many eggrolls you’ve eaten this year? How about finding out at what bus station you are most likely to give change away? Daytum might be the app for that.

New Facebook Profiles Susceptible to Pranks

Liz Gannes in Social on December 10, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT

As part of the new Facebook profile page redesign, users can now have a strip of the five most recently tagged photos of them running under their basic information. Some are having fun with this option, pranking each other to show inappropriate pictures and silly sequences of words.

Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.

Liveblogging the Geo-Location Announcement: Oh, the Facebook "Places" You'll Go

Kara Swisher in News on August 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm PT

BoomTown motored on down the lovely Highway 280 in Silicon Valley to Facebook to hear execs talk about a new geo-location feature the powerful social networking site is rolling out. The new name of the service, which will be deeply integrated into its current update system, as I reported earlier, will be “Places.” There will be no games, no mayors and no special discounts either in Facebook Places–just plain and simple checking in and, presumably, taking names.

LIVE from New York: Twitter Pitches Ads to Madison Avenue

Peter Kafka in Media on April 13, 2010 at 10:39 am PT

Twitter has quietly been reaching out to marketers about its new ad platform for a few months, but now it’s a full-fledged marketing blitz. COO Dick Costolo takes his marketing message to ad buyers.

ComScore’s Gift to Web Publishers: (Almost) Free Traffic [UPDATED]

Peter Kafka in Media on January 22, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Web publishers love to grouse about comScore’s traffic estimates. But many of them are much happier these days: A new measurement system is giving some sites a dramatic boost in Web visitors.

Facebook's Latest Craze: Tag, You're It (Repeat 24 More Times)

Kara Swisher in News on January 30, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Well, you knew the kids would eventually get tired of throwing all those sheep and posting drunken pictures of themselves. Now comes a more sober–but still utterly self-absorbed–new craze on social-networking sites, most especially Facebook of late. It’s called “25 Random Things.” Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. I suddenly miss SuperPoking.