75 posts and columns on The Guardian

Facebook’s “Social Readers” Still Fading

in Social on May 22 at 7:00 am PT

The Washington Post and Guardian apps see another steep drop in usage. Great news.
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In the Race to Win Social Video, Is One App Gaming the System Too Much?

in Social on May 16 at 3:30 am PT

As mobile social video apps skyrocket toward the top of the app store, some are going for the gold by any means necessary.
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Sergey Brin: I Didn’t Actually Conflate Government Censorship With Apple and Facebook

in News on April 18 at 10:35 am PT

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said he didn’t really mean to say that Apple and Google are threatening the open Internet on the same level as government censorship.
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Hey Facebook, Where’s That Timeline and Open Graph You Promised?

in Social on December 5, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Two and a half months after Facebook promised that a huge revision of its self-expression and sharing tools were coming soon, users and developers are still waiting.
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NewsCred Raises $4 Million for Its Web-Based Newswire

in Media on November 30, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Expensive content on the cheap: A start-up that licenses stuff from the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg and Forbes.
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Why Is the Washington Post at the Top of My Facebook Feed Yet Again?

in Social on November 14, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

After uninstalling and hiding the Washington Post Social Reader App but still seeing stories from it front and center, I asked what was going on, and how I could make it stop.
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New from Google Labs: Google April Fools Overkill

in News on April 1, 2009 at 8:59 am PT

If 2008 (or 2007, 06, 05, 04…) was the year April Fools on the Web jumped the shark, then 2009 was the year it was eaten by it. The Web is so overburdened with pranks this year, it may be that the best April Fools announcement of all proves to be Palm’s, a company promising to deliver real news and not some over-thought hoax. Google alone has posted no fewer than 12 pranks–and none of them match Pigeon Rank in wit.
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RIM: Orange to Pull BlackBerry Bold? Guardian Alleges Software Glitches.

in News on January 2, 2009 at 8:17 am PT

U.K. paper The Guardian this morning reports that Orange, the mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom, is considering yanking Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Bold from its handset lineup because of what the paper calls persistent software errors.