Articles tagged "social"

The White House just got itself a tumblr page, and it's accepting GIF submissions now. Here are a few suggestions for the inaugural entry.

Google+ has opened up its border to animated profile picture capabilities. That's a good thing.

Bang With Friends is now quantifying sexiness with a FICO-esque number.

The dating app that translates superficial flirting into an interactive game on your phone.

BFFs are for poor people who stay put, suggests a new study.

Things have been complicated between Twitter and Facebook for quite some time now.

One-third of young America now tweets on the toilet. Tweet on, I say.

While Facebook fiddles with its Timeline algorithm while trying to make money, and Instagram tries to be more like Facebook, LinkedIn has a much grander vision.

Occupy Wall Street’s recent one-year anniversary, and subsequent re-up, inspired a number of commentaries on the movement. What have been its successes? What have been its failures? What does its future look like?

Those pics we see on Facebook and Instagram tell the story of the world crumbling around us, while we live on. Here are some of them. Here’s Apocalypse Sandy.

So here is how we go online to distract ourselves from the biggest storm in history.

Remember when you were in college and Facebook was this strange new thing that everybody was talking about? And then somebody would mention it in section, and the grad student TA would be all, “What’s this Facebook thing you kids are talking about?”…

It’s impossible to grasp the consequences or outcomes of new technology, especially when that technology is developed by a twenty-something hacker.

A few months ago, I was using that sleazy Badoo site, trying my damnedest to find a girl that I might meet in real life. If you recall the feature, I was unsuccessful. After the site spammed my mom -- asking her for her birthdate -- I ended up talkin…

The dating social network that began five years ago in Europe is pitching itself to New Yorkers as the next great place to meet people.

It’s only been a week, but already everyone’s acting like nothing’s changed. Facebook announced its astronomical $5 billion initial public offering last Wednesday, giving it a valuation somewhere in the ballpark of "$75 billion to $100 billion":ht…

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Prosocial games equal +5 XP in Popularity.