These babies know more about internet than you ever will. Listen, er, read the subtitles of their wise words and learn about the glory that is +1. It's just that simple. You have to listen to them because they're babies on the internet. They do a better job of explaining and entertaining than a posse of a million. Enjoy.
Read The Full Story
- Google I/O 2013 on-site Wrap-up: Glass, Developers, and Services on tap
- Google Maps-driven Map Dive 3D-tracking hands-on
- Mary Lou Jepsen encourages Google X attitude in hardware engineering
- Google I/O and the year of the Context Ecosystem
- Google Glass lead industrial designer talks modular fashion at I/O 2013
- Google Glass developers make Mirror API simple with Cat Facts
- GALAXY S 4 Nexus edition eyes-on: Hugo Barra’s got it
‘social networks’ Stories
Google +1 embeds recommendations into search [Video]
Google has launched a sharing button of its own, competing for space with Facebook's "Like" button and the Twitter "Tweet" button. Google +1 takes advantage of the search engine's huge user base, flagging up the recommendations of your friends and contacts directly on the search results page; as long as you're signed in, you'll see positive feedback on the results your friends approve of.
Video demo after the cut
Read The Full Story
Changing My Relationship Status
I found out that my sister broke up with her last boyfriend because Facebook told me. Not a Facebook friend, the Web site itself. She had linked to him as her “relationship,” so when you went to her profile page, it said that she was “in a relationship with . . . ” that guy. Then they broke up. Being children of a digital age, they decided to tell Facebook before they told actual humans. They both changed their relationship status to “single,” and Facebook sent out a message to all of their friends. The message said they were “no longer in a relationship.” Facebook is a bit too smart for its own good. It saw their relationship status change and put two and two together. Or rather, it subtracted from two, and came up with zero.
Facebook Tests Real-Time Ad Targeting
By now, we're all used to targeted ads. Whether you're getting daily Groupons in your inbox or if you're one of the 600 million who regularly browse Facebook, you've seen a targeted ad. Until now, these advertisers have been aggregating your data, grouping you and targeting ads to you based on these groupings. Facebook has been testing a new service that alters the method by which ads are chosen. Traditional targeted ads are based on aggregated data. Facebook has begun serving ads to a small subset of their users based on real-time data mining.
Read The Full Story
Color image sharing app sorts by location (& gets privacy zealots worried)
Privacy advocates and social networking addicts alike are all aflutter over new image sharing app Color today, a start-up with $41m of investment and a desire to get proximal photos onto your screen at the same time. Available for iOS and Android, Color allows you to take a photo or video and then upload it for general viewing - hence the privacy concerns, since there's no security or filtering available - and gathered by being taken within a 150ft radius.
Read The Full Story
Google Me social network debut at Google I/O?
Google's plans to challenge Facebook and other social networks with "Google Me" are tipped to come to a head at Google I/O 2011 in May. According to TNW's sources, Google is expected to announce the "social layer" at its developers conference, part of a broad social networking initiative that will touch on all of the search giant's online services.
Read The Full Story
Facebook and Skype in talks over video calling to take on FaceTime?
Facebook and Skype have apparently returned to the negotiating table, with the prospect of Facebook users being offered video call functionality. Talks last year between the two companies resulted in the launch of Skype voice calls between Facebook friends, but according to Bloomberg's pair of sources the discussions had also tentatively covered video calls as well.
That failed to appear in the October Skype update, but with Apple's FaceTime system gaining momentum - likely to be aided with the launch of the iPad 2 later this week, which features twin cameras for FaceTime support - it seems Facebook's interest has re-awakened.
Read The Full Story
The Different People I’ve Been
When I was 14 my parents bought me an account on the Prodigy network. This was back in 1989, before I had a clue the Internet existed, and four years before the first graphical Web browser would be introduced. I did all the things on Prodigy that you did when you first discovered the Internet. I had email conversations and grew addicted to the chiming sound when I fired up the 2400 baud modem and discovered I had new mail. I posted messages on bulletin boards and got into long-winded arguments with people for no good reason. I did research for school projects, played games and read news, and generally poked around the seemingly limitless world the growing network offered. I also pretended to be someone else.
HootSuite For BlackBerry Updated With New Social Features
If you own a BlackBerry and are socially over-extended, then you'll be glad to hear that HootSuite for BlackBerry has just gotten updated with additional social features. HootSuite is a popular social media dashboard app that aggregates all your social network streams into one location that you can easily manage while on the go.
Read The Full Story
Apple “Stylized Speech Bubbles” trademark tips new social networking service [Updated]
With only hours to go until the launch of the iPad 2 and what's expected to be a demo of iOS 5.0, an Apple trademark submission has been spotted for what looks like a social messaging or online chat service. Filed on February 23, the "stylized speech bubbles" are in fact referenced in four separate submissions - 85249977, 85249986, 85250000 and 85250006 - with various classifications including "online social networking services."
Read The Full Story
Nexus S losing Facebook contacts sync as Google tightens data policy
Facebook integration with the Nexus S is set to be scooped out after the Android 2.3.3 update currently being distributed OTA, with Google claiming that the social network's cloud-based contacts violate its terms of service. According to the search giant, while currently Facebook contacts can be synchronized with the Nexus S' contacts, the fact that the data can't be exported from the phone "created a false sense of data portability." It's the latest jab in the ongoing war over data access between the two companies.
Read The Full Story
HTC’s Facebook button is the Start of Something Big
Yesterday HTC announced two new phones the ChaCha and the Salsa. Each included a new and unique implementation with the social networking giant Facebook. As I listened to HTC CMO John Wang talk about how deeply they integrated the Facebook experience into these devices I became convinced they are on to something.
REVIEWS
![JH Audio JH16 Pro with Freqphase Custom In-Ear Monitor Review [2013]](http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/P2111170-sg-320x80.jpg)
- POPULAR STORIES THIS WEEK
- Xbox 720 Destiny teaser images head to Earth's moon
- Google X Phone leaks converge: is Nexus done for?
- Nexus 7 refresh gets teased in Google+ Hangouts video
- Nokia Lumia 925 hands-on
- HTC denies HTC One "Nexus Edition" plans
- BlackBerry Q10 Review
- PlayStation 4 hardware reveal fools the hopeful
- Google+ Hangouts for Android now live, replaces Google Talk [UPDATE]
- RECENT COMMENTS
