The Social Network
Here Are 39 Ways Samuel L. Jackson Has Spelled "Motherf***er" on Twitter
I love Samuel L. Jackson. I mean, I’d automatically have to support anyone who’s been in both Jurassic Park and Pulp Fiction, but Samuel L. takes it to another level. (Let’s all just acknowledge that this search exists.) But, with more than a hundred...
Dramatic Photographs Interpret Your Actions On Facebook
Nicolas Ritter’s series The Social Network will make you look at your online interactions in a new light.
People Actually Used These Passwords on LinkedIn
Apparently LinkedIn was hacked, with current estimates pegging the number of stolen passwords at around 6.5 million. That’s a whole lot of passwords! I wonder if they’re sitting in a spreadsheet somewhere. Why? Well, it’s LinkedIn, the supposed...
Stalking China's Weibo Censors: An Interview with Chi-Chu Tschang
In America, we tend to refer to Sina Weibo as China’s “Twitter-like microblog," but that doesn't quite do it justice. It has 300 million users, more than twice the amount of Twitter itself, and because it's in Chinese, each nugget of 140 characters...
Steve is Not Happy
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Brogramming with Zuck at the Facebook Bungalow
Zuck himself was an indication of things to come. A kid who, friends say, gets so absorbed in his little ideas that he forgets to eat or sleep and rarely leaves his slouched, edge-of-seat position in front of his laptop until his little idea is...
No Babies, More Drama and Juggalos: How I Will Change Facebook
Apparently, Facebook is opening stock options to the public this Friday. I know about a lot of things, but the stock market is not one of them. However, I have seen the '80s guy episode of _Futurama_, where Fry and his Wall Street pal take control of...
Internet Hall of Famer Vint Cerf's Other Elegies
Did you know the Internet had a Hall of Fame? Me neither! But it does, and two weeks ago, it inducted its first crop of elite Netizens.
Facebook, Instagram, Ben Bernanke: Thank You for the New Tech Bubble
It’s a sign of the times when an 18 month company consisting of about a dozen guys and no real revenues is suddenly sold for $1 billion dollars. Need we any clearer reminder of how batshit crazy things currently are?
Seducing the Insta-Gs: How I Plan to Get Some of That Facebook Money
I was lurking around Twitter a couple mornings ago, doing my usual routine of checking up on old boyfriends, current crushes, and the Iron Sheik, and my entire feed was clogged with people losing their minds about the whole Instagram Facebook thing...
Webcam Tears is the Internet's Weird Heart-Wrenching Exhibitionist Support Group
Assuming some of the world's server farms survive the apocalypse, the lasting memory of the Internet won't be privacy fights and fears of commercialization. It will be remembered as the true compendium of the human condition, whether that means blogs...
The NYPD's Kevin O'Connor Is Now Following You on Twitter
Kevin O'Connor's official title is Assistant Commissioner - Juvenile Justice Division, which makes him head of the the NYPD’s "Social Media Unit." (Apparently stalking people on Facebook is associated with juveniles.) O’Connor’s new role "was announced...