A year after redesigning its News Feed, Facebook has undone the makeover for a simpler, cleaner layout, which was officially unveiled Thursday.Last year's change, which proved unpopular with Facebook users, took on a more photo-driven approach, with big images and featured profile pics, along with a drop-down menu of feeds that...
Satoshi Nakamoto, the shadowy figure who created Bitcoin, is no pseudonym, but a reclusive U.S. engineer named ... Satoshi Nakamoto, Newsweek reports in an investigative article that builds a detailed circumstantial case for its conclusion, but fails to confirm Nakamoto's identity.Bitcoin enthusiasts erupted in rage at the supposed unmasking of...
Facebook will start showing you posts from pages you don't already Like if they mention a page you do Like.Similar to the way friends tagged in posts and pictures show up in News Feeds of folks they might not be friends with, people will start to see posts tagged with...
Facebook’s latest mobile endeavor hit the App Store on Monday—a news reader called Paper (not to be confused with the drawing application Paper)—but the appeal of the application isn’t the way you can consume news, but the way it looks. And as an expanded, glorified News Feed, it's quite a looker. When you...
Facebook has a long-stated desire to be the first and only place you go on the Web to get news. Recently though, Facebook had been failing in this mission as its News Feed became cluttered with advertisements and sponsored stories, babies, wedding announcements and "viral" news by the likes of...
Facebook's autoplay video advertisements are rolling out this week on its website and mobile apps. When the company first introduced autoplay video in September, it was all but inevitable that Facebook would begin to sell video advertising.And now it has.Facebook is beginning with trailers for the movie Divergent. The company...
Today Facebook announced an update to its news feed ranking that emphasizes shared news posts over memes and similar airy material that's often shared on the social network.Facebook’s push to incorporate more news into timelines could be a response to Twitter’s success as a news platform. According to Pew Research,...
Sorry, this not like the old days were words like "hot" and "sex" would get you to the top of search results. And yet we're talking about stripping to the bare bones to get dressed up in what might be the Emperor's new clothes. History In the beginning, a mobile (camera)...
Pulse is now fully integrated with LinkedIn, providing a personalized newsfeed based on your LinkedIn network. It will replace LinkedIn Today on iOS, Android and LinkedIn.com as the company's social news experience.With LinkedIn Pulse, the company begins its transition from a job-hunting platform to a technology-powered media company. The company updated the Pulse...
LinkedIn is set to announce new features, specifically on its mobile platform. But one place you won't learn about them is, well, LinkedIn.The site is down. When I attempted to access LinkedIn.com from a mobile device, we received an error message that said, "Oops, that page does not exist." At the...
It's no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle's most visible open-source project, MySQL. After all, Oracle has a highly conflicted relationship with open source. Nowhere is this conflict more apparent than in a new white paper Oracle released for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)...
Twitter has launched @EventParrot, a new service that sends breaking news directly to users. Confirmed by Twitter designer Paul Stamatiou, the account—which has been verified—is an official Twitter experiment. Similar to the company's other experiment, @MagicRecs, which recommends personalities to connect with, @EventParrot sends updates via direct messages, but only to followers of the account. The...
Depending on who you ask, wearable computers will either be the next big thing in technology or a completely superfluous and socially unacceptable line of gadgets only for pretentious techno-nerds. Mark Johnson wants you to know he's in the former group, at least where Google Glass is concerned.Johnson is the...
I rarely see updates from pages I actually like, only sponsored posts from recommended pages. It will be interesting to see if this changes, thanks to a Facebook update to its News Feed algorithm designed to make sure users are seeing the stories that are important to them.The update launched...
Between advertisements you never asked to see and unnecessarily hidden status updates from your closest friends, it’s no wonder that Facebook has come under pressure from users to explain itself. Today on the Facebook business blog, the company outlined how it decides what to show you in a News Feed...
Today is Marissa Mayer's first anniversary as Yahoo CEO, and the 72% rise in the company's share price over that time certainly represents one big vote of confidence in her leadership. But the company has a bigger, if less obvious, problem: Its brand is still losing ground with consumers.According to YouGov...
Google Reader's demise today is causing a little ruckus in the tech community, even though the writing has been on the wall for a while. There are also a lot of Google Reader alternatives out there, so there's no particular reason to panic.But many people have taken this opportunity to...
After Texas Sen. Wendy Davis had wound up her historic 13-hour filibuster, the clock struck 11:51 pm. It was the pre-agreed time for people watching from the upstairs gallery to start chanting in order to interrupt an impending vote on SB5, a GOP bill to limit abortions. It was then...
Israeli startup Wibbitz doesn't want you to read the news. It wants to read the news to you, in the form of 1-2 minute video summaries narrated by a helpful synthetic voice and accompanied by video of related images and animated infographics.Wibbitz made a splash last summer when it raised $2.3 million for...
It was one of those blink-and-you'll-miss-it announcements: LinkedIn got an unexpected boost in the middle of Apple's two-hour keynote presentation this morning at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).(See also Apple's WWDC 2013 Keynote: iOS7, iTunes Radio & New MacBook Airs.)In the next version of the Mac OS X operating system,...
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