How Facebook Chat helped two high schoolers become playwrights
Rachel Kaly and Alec Grossman wrote a play over Facebook chat. Now it's featured in the New York Fringe Festival.
Instagram lawsuit dismissed in part because woman who filed loves Instagram too much
After Instagram changed its terms of service, one user filed a lawsuit. Her inability to stop using the service may have cost the prosecution the case.
The White House is giving Data.gov a face lift – and it all looks awfully familiar
Teasing the White House's redesigned public database, Next.Data.gov catches up with the latest design trends and comes off as developer-friendly.
Reddit Insight analyzes the Web’s Wild West, turning it into beautiful, revealing infographics
A glimpse into Reddit and its Subreddits thanks to Reddit Insights, a hack put together by Hack Reactor students, spotlights how posts become popular.
Can you spot the differences between these two Instagram displays?
An Instagram spokesperson tells us the Web viewer has been updated to look more like the mobile UI - so what's changed?
The Facebook Facelift is only the beginning of social media-motivated plastic surgery
People are asking their plastic surgeons for special procedures that will specifically enhance their beauty online.
Tinder finally launches for Android, so here’s everything you need to know about the red hot dating app
Tinder is the coolest dating app on the market, and now it's available for Android users.
RT this @Pontifex! 4 even more ridiculous ways to digitize the church
Catholic? Want to get as close to a skip purgatory and go straight to heaven card? Then you're in luck: Just start following the Pope on Twitter.
How to cut back on the constant buzz of Facebook Chat
Being on Facebook is already hard enough, with people bugging you constantly with a 'hey' or 'how are ya?' through chat. Here's how you can manage that.
Yahoo’s recycling usernames and it’s forcing me to face my 7th grade inbox
In an attempt to deny Yahoo from taking away my very first email username, I logged back into my abandoned account... and walked down memory lane.
Before we start to ask Facebook for more, how about fixing these things first?
We're asking Facebook for more, when maybe we should just be fine-tuning the things we already have.
Zynga, Facebook, and the rapidly approaching future of online social gambling
Facebook is launching gambling games in the U.K., which is great news for Zynga but bad news for people who hate getting badgered about Facebook games.
Wake up! A 3 a.m. phone call is your ticket into this nocturnal social network
Dreams usually leave your brain the moment you wake up in the morning. Call in the Night attempts to discuss and record your fantasies as they happen.
WTF, Internet? Social-media Luddites, you don’t get to live vicariously through me
WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of everyone who hates social media - but then just makes me use it for them.
In the online hunt for criminals, social media is the ultimate snitch
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks are valuable sources in criminal cases. What you say on these sites can be damning evidence.
Miss Netiquette’s guide to using social media when you’re trying to avoid someone
Social media can be a tricky thing to navigate and no one has written the rules on codes of conduct.
LikeMind App Review: This social network may help you form a cult
LikeMind is a new location-based social network that is part Facebook, part Craigslist, and all about getting to know new people with similar ideas and interests as you.
Are luxury helicopter app services insensitive, innovative, or both?
Two prominent transit apps are offering bold helicopter promotional deals this summer as a strike rages in San Fransisco.
IFTTT’s iOS app is here: 10 recipes you need to make it look like you get social networking
Want all the benefits of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram without ... you know ... doing much work? Then these IFTTT recipes have your back.
Twitter finally fixed Direct Message syncing – does it have other plans for the feature?
Even Twitter seems to have neglected its Direct Messages feature, but recently with new updates we suspect that the DM is undergoing a transformation.
Do we really want all our social networks to have private messaging?
There's a new app to help you private message on Instagram - is it necessary or a nuisance?
Instagram has been peer-pressured into giving us its precious embed code
Now you can embed Instagram images and video whenever you want – for better or for worse.
How the horrible Vegan Sellout List stunt tricked the Internet
You may have heard about the Vegan Sellout List, a site shaming ex-vegans. Horrible, right? The site creators think so, too.
Weird Twitter who? Weird Instagram has arrived
It's a strange, strange world: You've heard of Weird Twitter? Now meet Weird Instagram.
Pearltrees launches Android app, makes leap into file management
Pearltrees launched its Android version today, while rolling out new file management features.
How Jay-Z reinvented the art of the Twitter Q&A
Jay-Z's marathon of re-tweets will go down in the history books of Twitter ... when there are history books of Twitter.
Facebook’s Graph Search officially launches – here’s how to prepare
Any user who has the U.S. English language set on default will now be able to use the Graph Search function. The question is, did it get any better?
Does Instagram’s landscape-friendly update mean the app’s ready to bail on its boxy format?
Instagram only allows you to upload square images, but concessions in its latest update could signal some new versatility heading to the platform.
Want to know what the tech elite Fancy?
With the help of The Fancy, we've rounded up items that Jack Dorsey, Daniel Ek, Dave Morin, Biz Stone, and Mark Zuckerberg like or are inspired by.
WTF, Internet? Facebook’s congratulatory overload is giving me a guilt complex
WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of Facebook and it's obsession with the 'congratulations.'
What are ‘Dark Google’ and ‘Dark Social?’ A webmaster’s mortal enemies, with no fix in sight
Dark Google and dark social continue to confound webmasters and marketers, and there's no end to it.
Miss Netiquette’s guide to not getting fired while using social media
We're here to help you with best practices for sites Web-wide, including the dos and don'ts of using the Internet while also keeping (or getting) a job.
#Lifeloggers documentary explores the coming world of tracking your every move
Think lifelogging and the Quantified Self movement is a phase? This Memoto-produced documentary says think again.