Recode has learned (and Jack Dorsey confirmed) that Twitter is contemplating longer tweets! And not just a few more characters than the current limit of 140, but expanding out to 10,000! So tweets you see will still be 140 but will have a "read more" link...
Once darling of the startup world, Foursquare is now close to life support. Per Inc., the social site has lost half it's overall value as investors look elsewhere. Foursquare is now looking at $20 to $40M in this round putting their valuation at $250M, half...
For you Jacksonville Beach surfers, Kelly Slater and his team created a man made wave. "For nearly ten years, my team and I have been working on creating the first truly world-class, high-performance, human-made waves," Slater posted on Istagram. "This is something I dreamt about as...
According to Bloomberg, self-driving cars are getting into twice as many crashes as their human counterparts. Why? Because the cars obey the laws and that becomes an issue because no one else does! The automated cars have to "know" what the other cars are doing and...
Twitter has stopped listing share counts for web publishers of their ubiquitous share button. That means without actually visiting twitter, you cannot see how many times your post has been shared on the social media network. This change, which just went live, was announced back in...
A new study released by the curiously-named Happiness Institute reveals that staying away from Facebook will make you happier. According to the study which examined 1,095 Facebook users in Copenhagen, 81% of those who continued to use Facebook were happy while 88% of those who were...
Will Twitter improve engagement by changing the favorites icons to hearts? That's the hope. While the social media company says the intent is to reduce confusion for new users, Twitter is trying to get more clicks and more engagement. But by changing to "Likes", a la Facebook,...
Google announced yesterday that it will introduce a new service to the streaming site Youtube. Starting October 28, Google will launch Youtube Red. Not to be confused with a porn site with a similar name (Google says it has tested the name and there was no...
Let's say you forgot your wireless password, which often can be a slew of random numbers and letter. A simple way on Windows 7 to retrieve that password to give to someone else ("What the wireless password here?") or to enter into a new device...
In a new study, it was found that teens would rather communicate digitally than doing so in person. According to attentiv.com, that's the case for 51% of teens surveyed. Surprised? Probably not if you've been around teens. But overall, 32% of people would rather communicate via text...