Twitter paints the world with your geo-tagged tweets

Twitter plotted all geo-tagged tweets for key global locations on a map. And the result is big data come to life -- and a vision of how we move, where we live, and where we congregate in the largest numbers.

Mozilla’s WebFWD accelerator helping Anahita become ‘the Linux of social’

"You can build a person, build a group, build a spaceship, or build a Cylon," Mehr says with a smile.

Collegefeed rolls out career marketplace nationwide to help students find jobs

Founded by Google's former Head of Products, Collegefeed is a social network that brings together students and employers to improve the hiring process.

Why settle for Facebook Home when you can have Twitter Home, too?

So. Facebook Home doesn't work on your particular Android device. And you've seen that Facebook Home has an abysmal 2.2 average rating -- more than half of Facebook Home users rate it one single solitary lonely star.

What's a social news Android addict to do?

SendHub expands its business-social software with a new Android app

SendHub joins other social business services like Yammer striving to engage and connect the workplace through social tools as networks like Facebook and Twitter permeate our personal lives.

How ‘well’ do you use social media? Two brothers built a social analytics platform to tell you

Prollie is a social search platform that tracks how "well" people use social media platforms and makes connections with others who share the same interests and passions.

Why Facebook picked a drag queen to be the official face of Home

Halleloo! Drag queen Shangela made an appearance in today's Facebook Home launch. But this isn't Facebook's first foray into LGBT-friendly waters.

Twitter releases new ad targeting tools: Interest, platform, fans, and gender

Twitter announced new self-service ad tools today with much finer-grained targeting controls that will allow small advertisers to craft ad campaigns to exactly the audience they want.

OpenTable now competing with Facebook Graph with new Facebook app ‘Places I’ve Eaten’

OpenTable has released a Facebook application to help friends connect around food. My question: won't Facebook Graph support this kind of thing natively?

UpTo wants to be the social glue of tomorrow, adds $1.5M, and opens its event stream platform

500,000 shared events and 2000 organizational event streams later, UpTo is pivoting to become the social glue of what's next on an even bigger scale.

NotesCloud becomes Collective.li, launches new iPhone app to become your personal Pinterest

Collective.li is the digital life magazine of your life, and now it's going mobile, just like you.

Forrester’s top 15 emerging technologies

Everyone knows that mobile, social, cloud, and data are big freight trains of change that are blowing up old business models and old business practices. But let's face it: that train is in the station. What's next?

Bob on Twitter, Bo on Facebook, and BJ on Pinterest are all one guy. CrowdTwist helps you sell to him

"There are new channels popping up every week, and consumers are spending time with brands in new places ... engaging with brands like the Miami Dolphins across eight to 10 channels, which makes them look like eight to 10 people."

Soundrop brings music ‘listening rooms’ to Facebook

Social music service Soundrop announced this morning that it has launched listening rooms on Facebook, which means that artists -- and fans -- can create social music spaces where they can listen to music together, chat, and vote on what they want to hear next.

With new mobile apps, YouSendIt lets you send large files on the go

YouSendIt is best known for its software to help users send and receive large files via a desktop PC. But today, it launching a suite of mobile apps for iPhone, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, so you'll be able to access documents, videos and presentations on the move.

Google’s ‘forcing’ users to use Google+ is old news – a year old, actually

Google+ execs told us a long time ago that Google+ wasn't supposed to be a social network. It WAS supposed to be a universal login for all Google's products.

Ooomf debuts step-by-step guide to help you launch your app in 2013

If you're thinking of launching an app this year, consider making it a New Year's resolution. And, perhaps, take advantage of Ooomf's new Launch This Year: a personalized step-by-step guide to making it happen.