Social Networks How We Shared Content in 2010: Still More Facebook, More Email Than Twitter, MySpace Lives On The link sharing service AddThis, which said this month that it's now tracking the interests of more than 1 billion people across the web, has published an infographic breaking down the most popular destinations for content shared through its little widget. Sites with an AddThis widget (like ours, above) allow readers to send pages of interest… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Yes, Finds Pew Study, People Will (and Do) Pay For Digital Content For a long time - right or wrong - content on the Internet has been synonymous with "free." Free music. Free videos. Free access to your local newspaper. Free blogs. And so some have worried that people might be reluctant to actually spend money to buy digital content if they can already find it (or something similar) online without having to… Audrey Watters View comments
New Media News.me, Betaworks & NYT's Stealthy Social News Project, Starts Accepting Invite Requests News.me, the stealthy social news project being developed by Betaworks in conjunction with The New York Times, has just started accepting invite requests. As part of the partnership deal, The New York Times took an equity stake in Bit.ly, a URL-shortening service from Betaworks, the technology incubator behind several notable social Web companies… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Twitter Court Refutes Claim that Photos on Twitter Are Free For the Taking Ah, Terms of Service - the legally-binding document we never read before clicking "accept." So when Agence France-Presse argued this fall that Twitter's ToS granted it free access to photos shared on the microblogging service, there was a veritable shitstorm of people saying, "Wait, what did I agree to?" Well, rest easy. A U.S. District Court… Social Audrey Watters View comments
mobile Ford Debuts Its First Mobile App: SYNC Destinations Ford Motor Company has just launched its first mobile application: SYNC Destinations, available today for iPhone/iPad and Android users, with a Blackberry version due out soon. The new app provides directions, navigation and traffic information, all of which can be sent from the app to any 2010 or 2011 Ford SYNC-equipped vehicles which are… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments