Posts tagged Social
Conan Puts The Tonight Show for Sale on Craigslist
Jan 15th
However, it appears that the listing itself is no joke, and can be found under the for sale/wanted > collectibles category in Los Angeles. Titled “4 SALE: BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW,” Conan’s looking for your best offer, but also “willing to trade for Coldplay tickets.”
Here’s video of the segment:
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Google Suggest Gets Location-Aware, Too
Jan 15th
Ostensibly to save you time typing in your search query on mobile devices, the search suggestions are now based on your phone’s current or last known location. Ideally this will improve the relevancy of those suggested results by optimizing them based on where you are.
In order to take advantage of the new feature, you’ll have to turn on “Save recent locations” and “Allow use of device location” under the Settings link on the google.com home page. You may also have to refresh the google.com page on your phone’s browser in order to see the location-optimized suggestions.
It’s another step in Google’s march into local territory. Anyone have predictions on what will be next?
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First-Person Tetris Gives the Classic Game a New Twist
Jan 15th
The game is free to play and all you need is a web browser to take up the new challenge. The simplicity of the concept and style fit very well with the minimalist aesthetic of the original game, yet cleverly extends it to present a whole new take on the classic.
And if your mind isn’t scrambled enough by the regular First-Person version, check out the even tougher “Night Mode” and let us know how long you can keep playing. Because in Soviet Russia, Tetris rotates you!
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Twitter Grows Internationally, But Very Few Use Location [STATS]
Jan 15th
Whereas in June of last year the U.S. accounted for 62 percent of all active
Brazil’s growth from 2 percent to 8.8 percent puts it in second place behind the United States for active Twitter users. The UK is close behind at 7.2 percent. Drilling down into users by city, London, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, New York City and Chicago make up the top five in terms of unique users, but New York contributes the most total tweets at 2.37 percent. The data above was compiled from a study of more than 13 million unique Twitter accounts active between October 16 and December 16, 2009.
Another interesting reveal from the study is how startlingly few Twitter users have enabled the
The geolocation feature has only been
Surely Twitter’s push to launch its various language versions, including
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MobileMe Gallery For iPhone Appears in the App Store
Jan 15th
You can flip through your existing photos in typical iPhone finger-gesture fashion or take new ones with your phone and upload them to the MobileMe cloud. There’s an option to send photos both new and old to friends and colleagues via e-mail, and the app views videos, too.
You can also use MobileMe Gallery to browse friends’ photos; any friend you’re following will have a blue dot next to his or her name when he or she has uploaded new photos. Chances are you’re sharing your photos on
As is the case with many other Apple products, design is prominent; there’s a sliding ticker of recent photos at the top of the app to give it some extra style. If you want to see how it works firsthand before downloading it, there’s a quick tour video over at
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Google Lures Local Businesses With Place Pages Bait
Jan 15th
It’s a yet another maneuver in Google’s continuing strategy to dethrone Yelp as the de facto resource for local venue information and customer review data.
Both new features are pretty noteworthy additions to the offering, and they’re designed to entice more local businesses to claim and update their Place Pages, which by association should attract more customer attention as well.
The Local Advantage
Post to your Place Page is nothing more than a Twitter-like status update box with a 160-character limit that updates your business listing with whatever current information you want to expose to the
To further stimulate Place Page adoption, Google is adding a verification badge to pages that are claimed. Think of this as similar to Twitter’s verified accounts, with the main purpose being to assure page viewers that they’re viewing something actively maintained by the business in question.
Place Page Prominence
In case you haven’t been keeping track, Google Place Pages were
We got to witness that strategy in full earlier this month when Google revealed their location-aware mobile homepage
For only having been in existence for four months, Place Pages seem to be getting Google’s full attention, and we certainly expect many future updates in the coming months.
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TwitPic Worth More Than $10 Million?
Jan 15th
Although he doesn’t say who the prospective buyer was, TwitPic creator Noah Everett has revealed in
Beyond that, Everett says that Twitter’s most popular photo sharing site brought in $1.5 million of revenue during 2009, 70 percent of which went to the bottom line. Not bad for what started as one man’s side project without outside funding.
Check out the full interview below for some more details about one of Twitter’s biggest success stories to-date:
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