Twitter just launched Places, the location-sharing feature that the company announced at its Chirp conference in April.
Users could already share their location on Twitter — either their latitude and longitude coordinates or their neighborhoods. But with Places, you can …
Facebook chief executive and religious BlackBerry user Mark Zuckerberg tested switching to Apple’s iPhone over the weekend and panned the device. He reiterated gripes from longtime users over poor call quality from mobile carrier AT&T and weak battery life, according …
The nascent world of social media is attracting increasingly venerable brands.
MTV is looking for its very own Twitter Jockey, offering a $100,000, one-year contract to represent the music video channel on the microblogging service.
According to the job description, …
The next version of Apple’s iOS, its operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and other devices, may let users directly post their videos to Facebook in a move that could solidify the social network’s momentum in video.
Facebook is already …
Twitter said its engineers made a few mistakes in managing the service’s internal networks, creating a resurgence of “fail whales” this week. And it says its efforts to fix those mistakes may not be enough to keep the service running …
Twitter will open up another slot to potential advertisers soon.
The company is set to test “Promoted Trends,” which will allow marketers to put their own terms into the list of trends that Twitter shows on the bottom right-hand corner …
Digg CEO Kevin Rose just addressed the report that he’s leaving his web video show Diggnation: “i’m staying on w/diggnation through 2010 and will be announcing a new show very soon!” he just tweeted.
Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, the …
Does the world really need another business social network? Apparently Cisco thinks so, because it plans to release one later this year. The company has been revealing more details of the new product, called Quad, in advance of a demonstration …
Twitter’s growth is still accelerating. The service has reached 125 million registered users, up from 105 million almost two months ago.
When the company said it had 105,779,710 million registered users on April 14 at its first developer conference, Chirp, …
A Facebook group with more than 40,000 members is challenging the outcome of the first round of presidential elections in Colombia with a crowdsourced hunt through official voting records. We’ve seen the social network used to organize mass protests and …
Twitter has been on a shopping spree of late, buying startups left and right as it scales up its workforce to more than 200 employees.
Thursday, it bought Smallthought Systems, a four-person startup responsible for building a project management tool …
Crowdcast, a startup that helps companies make better decisions by harnessing the knowledge and opinions of their employees, just announced $6 million in new funding from Menlo Ventures.
San Francisco-based Crowdcast provides what it calls “social business intelligence.” Instead of …
Two weeks ago, several tech publications wrote about DinglePharb, an exciting new social gaming developer based in the Philippines and Hong Kong.
Led by a CEO named Nathan Agulto, DinglePharb said it was bringing a game called VVDragon to Facebook …
A hacker group has exposed an iPad security breach and put the private details of about 114,000 early adopters of the Apple product in Gawker’s hands. The list included people like The New York Times’ chief executive Janet Robinson and …
Microsoft’s Bing search engine will start filtering popular content shared on Facebook into its real-time search engine.
The move has been a long time coming. Microsoft initially signed a deal with Facebook last fall to filter its status updates into …
Whole Foods has the most Twitter followers but Starbucks’ huge Facebook audience makes it the highest-ranking brand on social media, according to a ratings study done by London-based Famecount, a media measurement service that aggregates popularity across social media channels.…
Twitter will roll out its own link shortener, “‘t.co,” for all web content shared through the network in yet another move that could threaten certain startups in its ecosystem.
Link shorteners compress very long web addresses into ones that can …
Today at Mashable’s Media Summit, the American Red Cross and the Universal Record Database (URDB) — an open platform for world records — wrangled the conference’s audience to break a world record of their own, and do some good in …
In May, Web metrics company Hitwise claims that social networks were visited more often than search engines by users in the United Kingdom. It’s a milestone that’s been foreseeable since September 2007, according to Hitwise’s chart.
Mostly, it’s Facebook. Hitwise’s …
Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley joined Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief of tech blog Mashable, on stage at the Mashable Media Summit today in New York to talk about his location startup. Among many topics, Crowley announced a partnership with CNN for the …
