YouTube was introduced with unprecedented potential in 2005. Just one year later, it was one of the fastest growing sites on the web with tens of thousands of new videos and hundreds of mill... Read more
Ever since the Facebook Like button was introduced in 2009, users have expressed a desire for a Dislike button, or something more than a single reaction option to a friend’s post. At last, t... Read more
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg describes the dearth of women in high-level leadership positions in corporations, non-profits and government, and offers three pieces of advice on how to keep wo... Read more
Developer Sarah Mei’s most significant contribution to the Diaspora project: changing the “Gender” dropdown to a text field. It pissed off at least one person, who argues t... Read more
Yesterday on TWiG, Leo and Jeff and I discussed Facebook integration in Ping–Leo didn’t know it was there, but looking at the screenshots on Apple’s site, before I got the... Read more
Diaspora is a distributed, open source alternative to Facebook that a few NYU graduates want to spend this summer building. They set out to raise $10,000 on Kickstarter, and on the strength... Read more
Hi all! I’ve been working furiously on ThinkTank over at Expert Labs for about six weeks now. Once in awhile I’ll post an update on where we’re at with the project. This is... Read more
Cloud data backup service, Backupify, has dropped its paywall until January 31st in an effort to acquire more customers. The service backs up Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs, W... Read more
Android users with Facebook friends who list their phone number in their profiles will love this: Brad Fitzpatrick offers a Greasemonkey script that exports those phone numbers to AddressBoo... Read more
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From Jon Evans’ epic rant about Facebook Comments: God forbid that they even pay lip service to the notion that users might perhaps be given options—for then they might start to use... Read more