Iterating off the Street View car and the Street View “tricycle”, Google has built another contraption to record the physical world for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
They’ll be driving a Street View Snowmobile around the Games for maps. Dan …
As competitors with rich content offerings like Yelp close in on its core market, Foursquare is rallying to fight back with a series of big media partnerships.
The New York Times reported today that the company will unveil a partnership …
Facebook users are sharing five billion pieces of content a week, or five times as much as they were in July, according to new statistics the company released this month.
The big burst in sharing comes as Facebook has promoted …
Ooh, one youthful blogging network takes on another!
Tumblr, the uber-simplified blogging platform that has more than 3 million accounts, kicked off a 48-hour experiment today. It’s letting people reply to others with photos, instead of regular comments or re-blogs.…
Google is trying to push more media sharing and status update features into Gmail as soon as this week, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Gmail users would be able to see a stream of status updates from friends as …
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, will start offering users targeted local coupons and discounts.
The Mountain View-based startup has teamed up with another San Francisco Bay Area company, Mobile Spinach, to power the offers. Through the partnership, Loopt …
On its sixth birthday, Facebook launched a host of new features as it crossed the 400-million user mark.
The most interesting of them may be its revamped search. When you type in names, it auto-completes for people who are the …
Facebook rolled out a new redesign to 80 million users tonight at its 6th birthday party, and the company’s vice president of product just prepped employees for potential negative reactions by telling the story of the original news feed launch.…
Facebook is rolling out a new redesign live to 80 million users tonight. We’re here at Facebook’s offices with Peter Deng, a product manager, who is explaining the changes.
The left-hand navigation bar of the social network site has been …
Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming …
Does Facebook have a birthday present in store for us?
The site turns six years old today, and a couple of redesign shots have been seen in the wild. Drop.io founder Sam Lessin tweeted these screenshots. In them, search has …
Location-based game Foursquare has found its groove, as U.S. visits to the site jumped 50 percent in January, according to Hitwise.
Overall, traffic is up 200 percent since November. The stats confirm Foursquare’s own public comments. The company said last …
Facebook is assuming its rightful place in the Internet ecosystem as a significant distribution channel for media properties.
Hitwise reported today that the social network now drives the fourth largest amount of traffic to media properties behind Google, Yahoo and …
Booyah’s MyTown, a mobile game that’s like Monopoly for the real world, has zoomed past 800,000 users and is accumulating 3.5 to 4 million check-ins a day.
That momentum makes it more than double the size of Foursquare’s reported 360,000-person …
“Like” is probably the most abused word in the English language.
And on Facebook, the word takes on a whole spectrum of meaning from casually approving a shared news story to being totally enthusiastic about a friend’s game-winning soccer goal …
Asana, the workplace productivity startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, just released a sneak peek at the new programming system underlying its product, called Lunascript.
It’s an in-house programming language, named after Moskovitz’ cat, that the company claims will cut …
Google just gave Nexus One users a big present. The company just rolled out a software update enabling multitouch, fixing a glaring weak spot for the phone since its launch last month.
When the Nexus One was first released, it …
In what could be a boon to earthquake relief efforts, Google added Haitian Creole to its automatic translation services. That comes on top of the $1 million the company pledge it will donate.
Although in life-or-death situations, having real humans …
Robin Sloan, a former strategist and executive at online TV site Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media organizations that want to do cool, transformative things with …
First Round Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, launched an exchange yesterday that allows the entrepreneurs they fund to pool and hold small amounts of equity in each others’ companies.
It’s a pretty unusual move that would allow founders to …
