(Mashable) — Adding more fuel to the wildfire of rumors about a possible Google social network, one Google staffer has posted a huge slide deck of research findings on social networking problems and solutions. Social networking is a complex, fascinating puzzle that we’re just beginning to solve. Technologists as a group are making great strides in user […]
(Fast Company) — Those rumors about Google‘s Facebook-rivaling social network just got a whole lot more interesting. A former Facebook exec has been quizzing contacts inside Google and discovered that it’s all real, with large numbers of Google staff busy on task. The leak comes from Adam D’Angelo, cofounder of Quora (a cloud-sourced community question-answer forum), and it’s interesting as […]
(TG Daily) — There are nearly two-and-a-half times as many people using mobile Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace apps than there were last year, confirming it as the dominatingly largest growth area for the industry. According to the latest numbers from mobile analytic research firm Comscore, the number of people using a social networking app on […]
It sounds like a kamikaze mission: an upstart with a meager number of users and no capital squaring off against Facebook, a social networking juggernaut with more than 400 million members and a $15 billion valuation. Leo Shimizu, left, and David Chen founded Pio.io, a social site that emphasizes privacy. But despite those odds, a […]