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Your face drives engagement. It's really that simple. Your Instagram photos (and possibly your Facebook photos too) are going to be much more popular if they prominently feature...

Facebook Tells You You ‘Missed’ The Stories It Chose Not To Show You

Facebook may be going out of its way to hide more conte...

Obama Calls Ellen’s Record Tweet a Cheap Stunt

As you may have heard, the deadline for Obamacare enrollment is fast approaching (it's the end of the month, fyi). In order to get more people on board, President Obama...

Facebook Is Reportedly About To Slash Your Page’s Organic Reach Even More

Facebook is showing Pages' organic posts to fewer and fewer people as time goes on. Have you noticed a dramatic drop in the visibility of your own posts?...

WhatsApp ‘Sets Record Straight’ On Facebook Acquisition

A little less than a month ago, Facebook announced that it is acquiring WhatsApp f...

Man Offers to Shoot Someone for 100 Retweets, Promptly Arrested

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested...

Jonah Hill’s Mom Wants You to Sign Up for Obamacare

The open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act is dwindling, as the March 31st deadline is fast approaching. Let's call this part two of the White House's celebrity-oriente...

Facebook’s Video Ads Are Here: 15 Seconds, Autoplay, and Silent Unless Clicked

They're heeeeeere. Actually, they've been here for a while, but today Facebook has announced that their long-awaited (and long-bemoaned) video ad product is going wide,...

Should Scrabble Add ‘Selfie’ to the Official Dictionary?

Scrabble and Merriam-Webster are about to publish the first new edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary in over 9 years, and they want Facebook users to vote on one wor...

YouTube Embed Code Has A Weird Parenthesis At The End

Writing for the web all day, we tend to use a lot of YouTube embeds. We couldn't help but notice that today there is a weird issue with the code. It's adding a single parenthesis a...

Instagram Says It’s Now Much Faster on Android

Instagram for Android users are being treated with an app update today, one that the photo-sharing service claims will boost overall speed and simplify visuals that will benefit bo...

Facebook Redesigns Timelines For Pages

Facebook announced the launch of some changes to Pages, including a redesigned timeline, new options for admin tools and a new Pages to Watch feature. With the new Timeline des...

Katie Couric Launches Tumblr To Interact With Yahoo Audience

Katie Couric has a new Tumblr blog as the Yahoo's Global Anchor, and will interview Michael Bloomberg on Friday....

After Trying To Hide It For A Year, Vine Bans Porn

Give the people a platform and they'll make porn. It's a central tenet of the Internet. With the rise of porn on any given platform, they will then have to make a choice - allow th...

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