MVF Reveals Your Most V...
Ever wonder which of your Twitter followers you should be sucking up to? Well, you can go to MVF and find out. The app is a side project created by two startup guys — Alex Taub, who leads business development at Aviary, and Michael Schonfeld, a developer at Nerve Dating. Now, the idea...
Showyou Rolls Out All-N...
Social video browsing app Showyou just launched version 3.0 of its iPad application, a major update with a ton of new features. Competing in a hot space with competitors like Fanhattan , Shelby.tv , Squrl , Vodio and others, Showyou offers a grid-like view for browsing the videos...LeVar Burton Snags @Rea...
While we nerds may best remember LeVar Burton as a VISOR-clad Starfleet officer, he also spent much of the 80s and 90s instilling in children an appreciation for reading. In fact, Burton is still stuck to the idea of encouraging childhood literacy — he launched a new company called...Twitter’s Dick Costol...
Does Twitter need Google or does Google need Twitter? It’s a question complicated by recent events, such as the two companies not coming to an agreement to extend their previous partnership through which Google showed Tweets in search results. That deal wasn’t renewed,and...Twitter Posts Awful/Hil...
Twitter has posted a seriously awful/hilarious recruiting video to YouTube, which the company says was the product of last week’s “ Hack Week .” During this time, employees were able to take time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate on new ideas. Although it...
Twitter, Democracy, and...
Editor’s Note: Richard Fontaine , a Senior Advisor at the Center for a New American Security, is the co-author of Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age . Follow him @rhfontaine . Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear...Facebook Stumbles — I...
Update: Looks the tweets claiming responsibility were just a prank . Sorry about that. Is Facebook the next target for activist hacker group Anonymous? Depends on who you ask. The group went on the warpath last week following the takedown of file-sharing site Megaupload, with attacks...