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Conferences, symposiums, and meetings are going virtual for some companies.
Read More »Epic Geek-Off Seeks Future Googlers
... Or not.
Read More »iFive: Twitter’s Growth, YouTube Gets "Channels," iPad Delays RIM PlayBook, Apple Orders Huge Data Store, Facebook Phone Arrives
1. Darling of the social media scene Twitter just revealed some stats for its recent performance, and they're pretty eye-popping: Over the first quarter of 2011 Twitter's tweet-per-day count grew 41% globally, and 38% in the U.S. Meanwhile from December to March there was a 52% increase in monthly sign-ups, and 155 million tweets per day are going on, up from 55 million at the same time last year.
Read More »America 2049: A Star-Studded Facebook Game That’s Ambitiously All Over the Place
A human rights organization goes for a big splash with a Facebook game with both online and offline elements.
Read More »Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm
Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books
Read More »Is Apple Pushing Back the iPhone 5 Release?
Despite its mysterious PR aura, Apple is generally pretty reliable when it comes to releasing new hardware at a particular time. But now there are rumors that its hardware release dates may be pushed back later than usual this year.
Read More »Those Pesky Airport Scanners
The new full body airport scanners received a lot of attention at the end of 2010. I travel frequently for my job so air travel is a big part of my life. I understand the need for security; I’m just not as convinced on the need for a full body scan that shows my completely exposed body.
Read More »MTV for the Overachiever Generation?
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