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Quick: Who has more influence on Twitter - Lady Gaga or British actor Stephen Fry? Even if you aren't one of her 7 million + followers, I bet you guessed that Lady Gaga holds more...

Majority Of Americans On Facebook, According To Study

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's official "Population Clock," around 311 million people live in the U.S. at this moment. Now here's the interesting thing: new data from Ediso...

Will eBay Buying Habits Predict March Madness Winner?

While the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has hit its second week -- Sweet 16, ya'll -- also known as the time the casual fan checks out and mainly the purists are left paying att...

Color Privacy – If Privacy Is Your Thing, Color May Not Be For You

Social media and privacy don't tend to play well together, as we've seen in the past. Sure, there are always privacy settings, but these are usually emphasized as an afterthought....

Implicit Social Graphs Rise From Interest Not Location

There has been a ton of conversation about social graphs, location and photo sharing lately. Most of this conversation has arisen due to the release of the photo-sharing applicatio...

Color – Next Big Thing or Just Overblown Hype?

Well, it looks like the hot new startup is Color. Just about everyone in the tech blogosphere is talking about it. Of course that d...

Facebook Troll Sentenced in Australian Court

This extends far beyond your basic rick roller or "first" commenter. Today, Self-titled "troll" Bradley Paul Hampson, a 29 year old Brisbane resident, plead guilty to the posses...

Facebook Questions Revamped

When the beta version of Facebook questions debuted in the summer of 2010, it was large and in charge - of your news feed that is. Yes, the old Facebook Questions got to be sicken...

Google Accounts for All YouTube Users Starting Very Soon

In May of 2009, Google started giving people signing up f...

Facebook Targeted Ads in Real-Time?

Over time, if you're observant, you might have noticed a change in the ads you see when browsing Facebook. (Unless you have been too engrosse...

Color

Wow that's hot. Social networking, mobile, photo sharing. $41M raised before launch. Testing conventions, with damn good timing. But will this color fade to grey? Mobile social...

Apple Removes “Gay Cure” App Amidst Controversy

It looks like the pressure was too much for Apple as they have officially pulled the controversial Exodus International app from the app store....

Senators to Apple: Pull DUI Checkpoint Apps

Apparently, it's pile on the folks at Apple week. The company now finds themselves involved in two major app controversies, and it's only Tuesday. ...

Earth Hour Gets iPhone App

Earth Hour is fast approaching, and in a little over four days millions of people will flip off the lights to show solidarity in the cause of protecting Mother Earth. The simple a...

Social Networks Leave Americans Open To ID Theft

Nearly 13 million Americans who are on social networking sites will accept any request from a member of the opposite sex, even if they don't know that person, according to a new su...

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