Category Archives: Social Media

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Ok, I’m not quitting the Internet. I am however, taking a little break from Twitter and RSS this weekend. I already cheated a little by sending a few DMs to take care of some things, but other than that, it’s social media radio silence over at the 512 Pixels HQ. I don’t know if I’ll [...]

The Innovator’s Patent Agreement

Adam Messinger, Twitter’s VP of Engineering: The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive [...]

Ads Coming to Facebook Feed [Updated]

Ed Oswald, PCWorld: Get ready for advertising in your Facebook news feed. The company has launched Facebook Offers, which aims to bring Groupon-like deals to users of the social networking site. Facebook will roll out the functionality to page owners gradually over the next few months. I hope no one is surprised by this. Facebook [...]

RNC Picks Google as Social Media Platform

Shoot, I thought they would have picked MySpace.

Instagram Gains 10 Million Users in 10 Days

Holy crap.

Is Social Media Making Us Lonely?

Stephen Marche at The Atlantic: Social media—from Facebook to Twitter—have made us more densely networked than ever. Yet for all this connectivity, new research suggests that we have never been lonelier (or more narcissistic)—and that this loneliness is making us mentally and physically ill. A report on what the epidemic of loneliness is doing to [...]

Did Facebook Buy Instagram Out of Fear?

Om: Facebook was scared shitless and knew that for first time in its life it arguably had a competitor that could not only eat its lunch, but also destroy its future prospects. Why? Because Facebook is essentially about photos, and Instagram had found and attacked Facebook’s achilles heel — mobile photo sharing. This makes a [...]

Tweetbot Gains iCloud Sync

The update uses iCloud to sync Timelines, DMs and mute filters. Now, where’s that Mac app?

Why Do We Report Twitter Spam?

Dr. Drang: The spam reporting button I put into Dr. Twoot last month1 was a demonstration that the process could be made much simpler and could be done directly from the timeline—no need to jump to the spammer’s profile. In fact, I now take great pleasure in reporting spammers. A quick click on the ∅ [...]

Just 140 Characters Away

Myke Hurley, on how Twitter had changed the world: People are becoming more world-social and making friends across the globe, some they may never meet in person. Relationships (friendship and love) are being forged online more and more often these days and the Internet is becoming a tool to help people interact on an emotional [...]