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The FBI Wants to Monitor Social Media

January 26, 2012 at 11:16 pm Amanda Wang

Security CamerasThe FBI is looking to develop a web application that can monitor social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, in order to gain better real-time intelligence about current or potential future security threats or situations.

This plan was inadvertently revealed by the FBI’s Strategic Information and Operations Center (SOIC) in a market research request for a “Social Media Application.”

The eagle-eyed New Scientist picked up on the request, which aims to “determine the capabilities of the IT industry to provide a social media application.” (more…)

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thanks to NFL, they Allow Players to Tweet Inside the Pro Bowl

January 26, 2012 at 1:34 am Amanda Wang

The NFL is going to allow players to tweet during the game from this Sunday’s Pro Bowl.

As first reported by CNBC’s Darren Rovell, players will be allowed to tweet from a designated area on the sidelines.

The NFL, often called the “No Fun League,” famouslydisallowed in-game tweeting in July of 2009. The NFL later fined a player for tweeting from a training camp.

Still, the league’s position regarding social media has evolved over time. (more…)

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Chill Out Guys, It’s Just A Toggle

January 11, 2012 at 10:01 am Amanda Wang

Google, Google, Google … What’s amazing is that you still haven’t learned how to market yourself socially, after all these years ; Lesson 1) You can’t just strong arm people into using your product .

Seriously, you’ve got to, like, you know, earn traction by making something people want and not, like, use your search muscle to make sure people hit up your social stuff. It might “work,” sure. But don’t for a minute think that we all can’t see through that shit for just what it is. (more…)

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What Techies Are Buzzing About at CES

January 11, 2012 at 7:24 am Amanda Wang

More people tweeted about Microsoft than any other tech brand Monday at CES 2012, but people who tweeted about Google had the most followers on average. Ultrabook computers, tablet devices and OLED display technology were by far the most-mentioned digital trends on Twitter. AndMashable had the second-most tweeted domain name at the industry’s showcase event. (more…)

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Reaching 200 Million Accounts: Twitter’s Explosive Growth !

January 11, 2012 at 5:07 am Amanda Wang

Twitter CroissanceThe 200 millionth Tweep signed up for a Twitter account, and to commemorate the occasion we bring you this infographic tracing the history of the platform that led up to that mind-boggling number.

If that 200 millionth Twitterer figure impresses you, get a load of the biggest number on this infographic: 350 billion tweets delivered each day.

Even though Twitter started out with users feeling cramped within its 140-character confines and talking about what they had for breakfast, today it’s turned into an explosive dynamo that instantly brings you news from all over the world. In fact, some have even blamed/credited it with overthrowing governments. (more…)

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Twitter Surpasses 200 Million Tweets Per Day

January 11, 2012 at 4:53 am Amanda Wang

Twitter has achieved a new milestone: Its users now send 200 million tweets per day.

To demonstrate just how large a number that is, Twitter decided to do the math and see how many books could be written with 200 million tweets. According to its calculations, a day’s worth of tweets would be enough to write a 10-million-page book or 8,163 copies of War and Peace. Every second, 2,400 tweets are sent through Twitter’s servers, enough for 1.4 billion tweets per week. (more…)

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Celebrities may temper Twitter comments after 2011 blunders

January 9, 2012 at 9:49 am Amanda Wang

Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.

NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne became the latest celebrity to blunder on Twitter, when he had to apologize for a tweet critical of public breast-feeding.

Kasey Kahne rests on the the roof of his car during the race introductions NASCAR Sprint Cup Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol Tennessee, August 23, 2008. REUTERS /Robert LeSieur

But Kahne has been far from alone in discovering Twitter’s pitfalls. The year 2011 saw U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner resign in a scandal that began with an errant tweet, and the musings of Hollywood stars such as the tech-savvy Ashton Kutcher and comic Gilbert Gottfried generated public controversy. (more…)

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A Toast To Technology

January 1, 2012 at 11:30 pm Amanda Wang

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I hold the unpopular opinion that technology – more specifically the proliferation of social media – is not intrinsically “good” in any sense. Social media is, however, important, and I propose we raise our glasses of good cheer to what social media and its related technologies have wrought around the world this past year and the good it will, in real terms, do in the future.

The great lie of social technology is that propagandists fear it for its ability to connect us in unified opposition. This is untrue. A status update cannot rally a crowd in flux. There are far superior tools to do this in a protest environment, namely SMS and good old “shouting.” Facebook is useless when soldiers are firing into your Google Plus circle. (more…)

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The Internet Is People

January 1, 2012 at 11:22 pm Amanda Wang

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There’s always been a tension on the Internet between humans and algorithms. In the early days, Yahoo was a human-curated index, remember? But humans couldn’t keep up, and the algorithms took over. Today, the human factor is rising in importance once again with Facebook, Twitter, and countless mobile applications like Instagram. Everything is social. The tension today is between social and search—humans versus computers.  Except that it isn’t so simple. (more…)

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Photo Organization Service Everpix Launches Public Beta

January 1, 2012 at 11:22 pm Amanda Wang

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Photo organization service (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist) Everpix has just launched into public beta, bringing with it a number of changes to its backend infrastructure, web interface and its desktop software.

The service, for those unaware, automatically organizes and combines all your photos, whether they’re stored on your computer or in the cloud. It then combines them into an online photo gallery where groups of photos are laid out into attractive albums called “Moments.”

The service currently supports only Mac computers (iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom), but plans to support Windows in the future. It also gathers photos from your online collections on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and can even locate photos found in your email. (more…)

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