Month: January 1970

Twitter touched off a furor among users last week by making it easier for mobile users to insert images directly into their followers’ Timelines, just like Facebook does with […] Original post by Dave Young

Mobile video continues to be one of the hottest areas in apps development, with new features rolling out every week. One app we’re particularly fond of is Magisto, a free video […] Original post by Dave Young

Pinterest isn’t just a pretty picture gallery any more, far from it. The site’s serious side is emerging as it works with other companies to enhance its visuals with other kinds […] Original post by Dave Young

Teens are generally fickle, and when it comes to social media, they’re even more so. That’s one takeaway from the latest market research report on media and teens released by investment […] Original post by Dave Young

Vine, the mobile app for shooting short, looping videos, is going all Hollywood on us. Today it announced the addition of editing tools to allow users to act like movie […] Original post by Dave Young

Pinterest has eleased a new version of its mobile app making better use of touchscreens, allowing users to easily swipe through pins with their fingertips. The new feature in Pinterest’s iPhone […] Original post by Dave Young

Mobile usage for YouTube now accounts for a whopping 40 percent of all traffic to the video-sharing service, its owner, Google, announced in its quarterly earnings call last week. […] Original post by Dave Young

Twitter changed its long-standing system for sending and receiving private messages a few days ago and the system appears to be having hiccups. For years, people could only send DMs, […] Original post by Dave Young

Facebook is relaxing its privacy standards for teens to allow them to share information with the general public more easily, the company announced today. Previously, Facebook users who listed […] Original post by Dave Young

Google ripped a controversial page out of Facebook’s playbook today by announcing a change that will allow it to use actions taken by users in ads, similar to Facebook’s “sponsored […] Original post by Dave Young

In the what-will-they-think-of-next category comes this announcement from Comcast Corp., NBC Universal and Twitter: a new widget that lets people control TV via tweets. Does anyone really need a […] Original post by Dave Young

Bitly, the link shortener, released a data visualization on the web this week showing news-sharing activity on a state-by-state basis for 40 different news outlets. The Real-Time Media Map shows which […] Original post by Dave Young

Snapchat, the social messaging service that’s wildly popular with young people, wants to linger in their lives a little longer. The disappearing message service introduced a new feature today that […] Original post by Dave Young

Twitter opened the lid on its financials for the first time today when it made its IPO filing public, revealing that it has earned no profits even though hundreds of […] Original post by Dave Young

Time to check your privacy settings again, Facebook fans. Searching Facebook posts and status updates The social network announced Monday it is widening the types of content to be indexed […] Original post by Dave Young