At The Pool: The New “Anti-Facebook”?
At The Pool is a Los Angeles-based social discovery platform, or maybe did you know that. Target: to provide “similar” or “substitute” services to the ones provided by Facebook, taking advantage of the latter’s potential attrition in the near future. To do that, At The Pool focuses on “getting you offline and connecting you with [...]
Facebook Holding an Event on Thursday March 7
Facebook has just issued its invitations to the press to attend an event on March 7th, 2013 in its Menlo Park headquarters. The invitation (as seen below) specifies that the focus of this event is for people to have a sneak peak at the new design of their news feed. Apparently, a redesigned version of the [...]
Wolfram Alpha Introduces Expanded Personal Analytics
Wolfram Alpha, the online “answer engine” the provides direct answers to queries rather than web page results, has announced an upgrade to its previously released Personal Analytics for Facebook back in August 2012, which provided a detailed in-depth analysis of your Facebook profile in terms of the geographic distribution of your friends, their age distribution, your overall [...]
Facebook Announces Graph Search
Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday the release of a new search tool called “Graph Search”, which, in short, is intended to help Facebook users in searching through the numerous links and connections that every one has for specific information and common interests. As Zuckerberg puts it, this is “not web search.” The new tool is designed to find specific [...]
The Instagram ToS: Are They That Bad?
If you have been browsing around the net in the past 24 hours or accessed your Facebook account, I am sure that you were bombarded with news and statuses about people’s disappointment with Instagram’s new terms of service (ToS), which somehow seem to indicate that the popular photo sharing social network now has the right to [...]
Social Media Wars: Twitter Releases In-App Photo Filters
So Instagram decided to stop letting users directly view photos on Twitter. Retaliation: Twitter announced a new version of its iOS and Android clients that adds Instagram-style photo filters. And that was but the latest smash volley in an escalating fight between the two companies: after Twitter revoked access to Instagram users wishing to add [...]
SlideWire Report – Edition 5
Once again, here is our cherry-picked crop of the latest Tech news. Griffin releases four new lightning cable products, Facebook updates once again its mobile app to include photo sync feature, iTunes 11 was finally released, Google integrated Drive into Gmail, Nintendo released the Wii Mini in Canada, Gagnam Style the most watched video of [...]
Can Myspace Wake from the Dead?
Originally started in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris Dewolfe, Myspace was the (only?) place to be if you wanted to connect with your friends or share things with the larger online community. You might remember it being famous for being that site where supposedly anyone could tweak the design of their profile page simply [...]
SlideWire – Fourth Edition
Our cherry-picked crop of the latest Tech news. Facebook app gets awesome updates, Amazon’s Kindle HD starts shipping, some GTA V news, Angry Birds Star Wars is now a reality and BlackBerry 10 is knocking on our doors. Enjoy it.
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