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Suddenly everyone is getting Pinterested

Dec 23, 2011
New social networks are kind of like Nicolas Cage movies: almost always horrible and confusing and spirit-crushing but occasionally kind of neat. Pinterest seems to be the Raising Arizona of social networks. Experian Hitwise reports that the site had 11 million total visits during December, which is 40 times the number it had six months […]

Anonymous says its starting its own social network

Jul 18, 2011
Well, good luck with that. AnonPlus will, we are told, be a rival to Google+ and Facebook but without any censorship and without any need to reveal...

Microsoft momentarily reveals new social network thing

Jul 15, 2011
Microsoft is calling it an accident but for a little while yesterday visitors to socl.com were greeted with a project codenamed Tulalip (name of a...

It's like a series of anticlimactic sequels to The Social Network!

Jun 23, 2011
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, aka the Winklevii, have dropped their lawsuit against Facebook. This comes as a shock to all those people who thought...

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Facebook movie #1 at box office

Oct 4, 2010
It brought in 23 million. The conversation around the movie in tech circles has been kind of interesting. It was reported that Mark Zuckerberg had...

Flipboard: the new Lindsay Lohan?

Jul 21, 2010
I don't know who Flipboard's PR people are but they should win the Nobel Prize for PR (a prize I'm glad doesn't exist). Everyone is talking this...

Want to quit Facebook but they won't let you go?

May 10, 2010
We're working on a show for tomorrow about Facebook and how quitting the social media site doesn't necessarily mean you've left. I've heard from...