Micro blogging site Twitter turns 7 years old today. “Just setting up my twttr,” Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, tweeted on March 21, 2006. That was the first Tweet made on Twitter and it barely made a buzz online because the service wasn’t officially launched until July 15, 2006. Twitter now has over 200 million active users and handles more than 400 million tweets a day!
Happy Born Day Twitter!
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The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay. Support the filmmakers of this free film here www.tpbafk.tv
A film by Simon Klose
In the last eight years you’ve come to YouTube to watch, share and fall in love with videos from all over the world. Tens of thousands of partners have created channels that have found and built businesses for passionate, engaged audiences. Advertisers have taken notice: all of the Ad Age Top 100 brands are now running campaigns on YouTube. And today, YouTube is announcing a new milestone: YouTube now has more than a billion unique users every single month. Read More
Happy Born Day Albert Einstein!
One of history’s most celebrated thinkers would have turned 134 today.
His numerous contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, mass-energy equivalence, the theory of photons, and many other topics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions.
Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879, and died on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, where his brain was removed for study and considered lost for many years. Researchers later recovered images and specimens of Einstein’s brain, which are housed in museums around the world and have been studied for clues to Einstein’s genius. Read More
LinkedIn is close to acquiring Pulse, a popular news reading app, for as much as $100 million, according to a new report.
Citing unnamed sources, AllThingsD reported that Pulse had been in acquisition talks with several big companies, including Yahoo and Microsoft, but that LinkedIn won out. The publication has since heard that the deal is set to be for between $50 and $100 million, and talks between the two companies are said to be “nearly complete.”
Though it might sound like an odd pairing at first, LinkedIn has doubled down on content in recent years. The professional social network launched a news hub in early 2011 and has recently been ramping up its own original content by recruiting celebrities and thinkers to blog as part of the LinkedIn Influencers program.
Pulse was founded by two Stanford graduates in 2010 and received a nice boost when Apple’s former CEO Steve Jobs mentioned the app during an Apple event that year. Pulse has raised $9 million to date and currently has more than 20 million users reading 10 million stories per day.
source: Mashable
A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were effected by it, and its impact on the world at large.
Official Wesbite: downloadedthemovie.com
Starring: Shawn Fanning
Directed By: Alex Winter
Written By: Alex Winter
Alicia Keys was named Global Creative Director of BlackBerry during the BlackBerry 10 Launch Event keynote in New York City.
Internet entrepreneur and innovator Kim Dotcom launches cloud storage site MEGA, one year after #MEGAUPLOAD was shut down by the US Government. The file sharing service is one of the fastest growing start ups in internet history with over 100,000 users within the first hour of its launch. Checkout promo video for Kim’s new start up below:
sign up for NamoroFake.com for only $39.99
The Brazil-based site can generate a fake Facebook profile for your “girlfriend,” complete with comments and relationship statuses from the past 30 days.
Justin Timberlake went all in with the launch of the new Myspace by releasing a new single titled Suit & Tie with hip hop icon Jay-Z.
Checkout the new redesigned Myspace here
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) – If you’ve ever wanted to know the most popular TV shows among your Facebook friends who are doctors, or wanted to see all the photos any of your friends have taken in Paris, the world’s biggest online social network has the answer.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature on Tuesday in Facebook’s first staged event at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters since its May initial public offering.
Called “graph search,” the new service lets users search their social connections for information about people, interests, photos and places. Until now, Facebook users were unable to search for friends who live in a certain town or like a particular movie. With the new feature, people can search for friends who, say, live in Boston who also like “Zero Dark Thirty”.
Zuckerberg says the search feature is “privacy aware.” That means users can only search for content that has been shared with them.
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