Smartphone Sensors Could Revolutionize Digital Magazines
We've all done those personality and health quizzes in magazines. You know, the ones where you suspect that answer A will categorize you as the personality type you're trying to avoid, so you choose B instead.Everyone does that, right?
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This Week in Review: What Twitter does to us, Google News gets more local, and making links routine
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. This week: Bill Keller's Twitter column and the inevitable backlash; Google gets more local with news; the endless debate on linking at newspapers; AOL continues its makeover; and this week's required reading.
There’s a One in 200 Chance You’re Tweeting From Inside Justin Bieber
Or at least somewhere very close to the teen idol: Some are "in Justin Biebers heart" or "Bieberacademy" or "Bieberville, California." Big picture: Sometimes people aren't truthful when they fill out their Twitter profiles!
Ministry of Defence warns service personnel over Facebook Places
Security officials warn members of armed forces that geo-location services
could be used by terrorists to track potential targets.
Facebook Places ‘boring’ says Foursquare chief
Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of Foursquare, a location-based social network,
has called Places, Facebook's new check-in tool, "boring" and "unexciting".
Facebook Acqhires Some Location Experts With Nextstop Buy
Facebook's location service, long reported to be in the works, has yet to show up. But if and when it does, perhaps the folks at Nextstop will end up working on it. Facebook has bought the two-year-old San Francisco-based start-up, which lets users share tips about things to do and places to go (like Foursquare,...
