From posting status updates to consuming news, the collective time Americans spend on Facebook amounts to more than 100,000 years each month.
The eye-popping figure comes by way of statistics portal Statista. The company pulled data from comScore, Compete, and …
Facebook will soon begin rolling out verified accounts for high-profile members with large numbers of subscribers, and it will give verified users the option of a pseudonym for their name.
Verified accounts were first introduced on Twitter in 2009 and …
Slowly, but surely, the Google+ iPhone app is catching up to its more well-equipped Android sibling. Today Google released a new version of the iPhone app that can instantly upload your photos and videos, something the Android app has had …
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“We’ve seen communities ruined by games,” said Google+ engineering director David Glazer to a room full of app developers.
“How do we find that balance between people who are interested in games… without having the problem of more spam?”
Glazer …
The Google+ Platform is still a relatively small collection of read-only APIs, but Google is definitely preparing for a wide and varied set of features for developers.
At the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco Thursday, Google+ engineering director …
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Facebook is rolling out its new lightbox photo viewer feature to all 840 million users by the end of this week, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed to VentureBeat. The new display helps make photos more attractive by showing …
It seems Facebook has rolled out its new lightbox photo viewer to more people today, and some are saying it’s a ripoff of Google+.
The new feature is similar to the old “theater view” in that it takes the user …
Google is making a bid for third-party developers’ interest with a new Google+ page for Google+ platform developers.
Google+ developer-relations team lead Chris Chabot writes on the G+ platform blog that the new page will be a source of office-hours-style …
President Obama will give the Google+ social network a high-profile boost by taking questions on a Hangout video chat starting at 5:30 p.m. Eastern tonight.
The Hangout was announced a week ago, and it will hopefully allow for a more …
Google has just opened up a new channel for Android developers to learn about the platform, ask questions, and get updates.
The +Android Developers page launched today to help devs stay abreast of changes in the rapidly iterating mobile operating …
Google rolled out a new version of its Google Earth software, replacing the patchy, quilt-like mapping graphics with smoother, more cohesive graphics.
“The Google Earth globe is made from a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs taken on different dates …
Google is defending its new privacy policy, stressing that the company isn’t collecting more data, just collecting it in a new way.
“We’re making things simpler and we’re trying to be upfront about it. Period,” said Google’s policy manager Betsy …
It’s two in the afternoon, do you know where your kids are? Evidently, they’re on Google+ but don’t worry, Google has put in some privacy policies to police their raucous Internet partying.
“We think the best strategy is to equip …
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Facebook announced today that thousand of journalists have flocked to Facebook’s subscribe feature since its launch, putting their scoops, stories and squibs right into your Facebook news feed.
“It has been pretty broad adoption both in the U.S and internationally, …
Google is changing its privacy policy, consolidating 60 different policies into one. You cannot opt-out of it unless you stop using all Google products.
Many of us know that Google is not just a web search company. It creates a …
Google+ is now allowing users to bring their nicknames, pseudonyms, and other identities onto the social service.
Up until now, Google+ users were supposed to only use their given-by-their-parents-on-a-birth-certificate names, which might have worked well for a lot of normal …
In what might be the biggest promotion yet for the Google+ social network, President Obama will be participating in a Google+ Hangout and answering questions submitted via YouTube on Jan. 30.
While there’s been some controversy over forced registrations for …
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In Thursday’s Google earnings call, CEO Larry Page told the world that the company’s fledgling social network, Google+ has reached 90 million registered users. He went on to say that, “Over 60 percent of Google+ users use Google products on …
Google, as it has long promised, is taking another step toward unifying all its web products under the Google+ umbrella by making Google+ a big part of signing up for a new Google account.
Today, the astute webmonkeys over at …
Google chief executive Larry Page announced Google+ has reached 90 million members since its launch in June.
“Four months ago, when we opened [Google+] to the public, we were not sure what kind of reception we would receive,” said Vic …
