Infographic: Facebook updates get more likes, whereas negative gets more comments
Social networking accounts for one in every five minutes of global online activity
So we knew that the social web had taken the planet by storm; but we didn't realise the size of the impact. That was until comScore released a recent report detailing just how much online communities have embedded themselves into our daily internet usage.
MyRobots.com: The Facebook for your cyborg companion
So you've got your Facebook and Twitter; but as we step closer to Skynet intelligent robot beings, what about their outcries to be part of the social graph? Well, dear reader, your prayers have been answered with Myrobots.com.
Twitter gets a convicted man off Death Row
"Choices to be made. Hearts to be broken... We each define the great line." This is the Underoath-influenced tweet that a juror made during a case, which may result in a convicted murderer escaping death row, since the communication caused the Supreme Court to overturn the decision.
Brief Facebook exploit saw Zuckerberg private photos posted online
If there's one photo out of a whole load you wouldn't want to appear in the public gaze, as the CEO of Facebook, it's probably you triumphantly brandishing a chicken. This was, unfortunately, the case for Mark as a short-lived Facebook bug meant users could see recently uploaded photos regardless of your settings surrounding privacy.
Facebook introduces sentiment analysis for testing
Anybody with a Facebook brand page has probably seen the new Page Insights pop up in their left column. Well they seem to be getting a further upgrade into the sort of hit-or-miss world of sentiment analysis.
What happens online when you die?
It's the question that nobody really thinks of as in the face of death (quite understandably) your online profiles fall to the wayside. But what does happen to the digital persona you spent time constructing after you die?
The obvious questions arise at first. Whether you'd rather want your profile to continue online existence forevermore or to elect a "digital executor" to take the lead in removing your online footprint?
Facebook shaves a couple off the six degrees of separation
Facebook has been taking it's mission to take out previous well known concepts: friendship, privacy, personality, and many more. But what about the six degrees of separation? Well now that's wrong: it's not 4.74 across the globe.
Editorial: Spotify is not winning with Facebook Open Graph
So Facebook released it's first batch of early results for the Open Graph integration into social music apps. While the numbers maybe positive (I pick on Spotify because they are absolutely crushing the competition in terms of numbers, probably because users are forced to login with Facebook), this is merely a quantitative result, whereas more qualitative data (meaning my opinion) would beg to differ.
Google introduces business pages for Google+
After much speculation and request from business to capitalise on Google+ features, pages have now been implemented into the social network.
Announced via their blog, and still in a closed alpha state, the functionality seems to be very much in the same vein as Facebook; but with some slight tweaks in the form of introducing Hangouts to communicate with your audience, grouping particular subsections of your base into circles, and an interesting form of analytical data called 'Ripples,' allowing you to see how your posts spread across Google+.
Researchers retrieve 250GB of personal data with socialbot
Ever had those random adds from attractive (or extremely photoshopped) ladies wearing next to nothing, who have an extremely bare profile and don't talk to you? Chances are that's a Socialbot, and as researchers from the University of British Columbia have concluded, they prove extremely effective at infiltrating Facebook's circles of friends and harvesting data.
Infographic of the day: Will your tweets get you robbed?
Editorial: 'Trusted Friends.' The ultimate Facebook rape.
Scenario: it's 3am, you're drunk and home, trying to login to Facebook. After failing too many times you're logged out and your friends each get security codes that they can all collect together to access your Facebook...Maybe I'm just hanging around with the wrong friends; but that sort of scenario would be just too irresistable.
Twitter tells your stories in more than 140 characters
Twitter have released a new 'Twitter stories' site today, curating some of the most impactful stories told via the stream of tweets surrounding the particular topics on the service.
“Today we’re launching the first in a series of Twitter stories,” Twitter said in a blog post. "Read about a single Tweet that helped save a bookstore from going out of business; an athlete who took a hundred of his followers out to a crab dinner; and, Japanese fishermen who use Twitter to sell their catch before returning to shore. Each story reminds us of the humanity behind Tweets that make the world smaller.”
Editorial: Don't call it a Social Graph
“As Facebook adds more and more people with more and more connections it continues growing and becomes more useful at a faster rate. We are going to use it spread information through the social graph.” Mark Zuckerberg claimed a while ago in 2007, while explaining the secret behind the social network.
Now there's always been something that's sounded a little off to me whenever I've heard the term 'Social Graph.' At first I thought it just sounded pretentious; but the search brought forward the utmost primary reason why.
Streetlife.com looking to reawaken British community spirit
In a time when David Cameron tries to push his vision of the "Big society" to no avail, it's good to see social good come to the rescue as streetlife.com is introduced.
Simply put, it's the local nature of Foursquare with the interconnectivity of Facebook, and the active transactional engagement of craigslist. The team behind the site say their mission is to let users "create an online profile and connect with people, groups and businesses in their area, to share practical information, advice, opinions, skills and resources".
Google Engineer posts apology for "Great-Granddaddy of Reply-All Screwups”
“Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about service platforms to my public Google+ account (i.e. this one),” Google engineer Steve Yegge writes in his apologetic blog post. “Bagging on the company, even in an internal memo, was uncharacteristically unprofessional of me. So I’ve been feeling pretty guilty for the past week.”
So what was this muck up of sorts? Not too long ago, he posted a 5000 word update on his G+ account (intended for internal employees which ended up going public) which really slams Amazon on it's flaws and Google's inability to understand platforms.
Infographic of the day: Facebook by the numbers
You likely know that Facebook is the world’s largest social network with more than 800 million users. But what about how many people look at their ex's Facebook profiles? The amount of people that play Facebook? Or how many links about sex are shared?
Check out what makes Facebook and its users tick with our Infographic of the day. Thanks Mashable!
Facebook is better than sex.
We love it when social sciences do their best to make wild conclusions. A 'scientific' study by sociological journal Cosmopolitan says 20 per cent of women prefer Facebook over sex.
We've unanimously agreed that maybe this number sounds a tad low. Sex has always been about communication between two (or more, depending on how lucky you are) people to push the biological sensibilities to orgasm. The best times are never just the messing-around bit, it's the self affirmation, the aftermath and the conquest. If you were arguing before, that doesn't matter for anything anymore.
#Politics. UK Government turns to Social media to cut costs
David Cameron may well be joining in on the big discussion (hope he doesn't slip up and tweet #itsokaytocheatif), with a new government strategy for jumping into social media "to facilitate a two-way dialogue with citizens."
The plans come as part of yet another huge cost cutting proposal, to skim a cool £1bn off the budget as the Government implements a their new IT strategy.