#Facebook? The News Feed isn’t the only thing changing – Facebook is embracing hashtags
If the rumors are true, hashtags are coming to Facebook, along with searchable comments.
BitTorrent makes nice with artists and fans: ‘We’re not The Pirate Bay’
With two new products recently launched, BitTorrent aiming to change its rep by collaborating with artists directly to provide legally distributed content.
Facebook users more likely to land a job through close friends, study shows
New Facebook study shows that keeping in touch with "strong ties" will boost your chances of landing a job five-fold compared to "weak ties."
Dating apps at SXSW hope to make serendipity happen
SXSW'ers looking for love have apparently come to the most technological place to find it, with tons of dating apps advertised across festival grounds.
Microsoft under fire after student uncovers Chinese surveillance of Skype
The online conversations of Chinese Skype users are being monitored, says one American graduate student.
Your Facebook Timeline is about to change
It's been seven days since Facebook revealed its plan to modernize our news feed. What's new this week? A more structured view of the timeline, that's what.
Twitter rolls out line breaks, which is good and bad news
Twitter introduced line breaks. The good news is that it opens up the doors to creative tweets, the bad news is the abuse that may follow from spammers.
Twitter expected to launch music discovery app, Twitter Music
Twitter gets in the music discovery business with its rumored acquisition of We Are Hunted, in the hopes of developing their own music app, Twitter Music.
Notorious Facebook hook up app invades SXSW to the chagrin of … SXSW
The notorious Bang With Friends app has made its way to Austin, but SXSW organizers were not impressed with team using the festival name without permission.
Facebook aims for Google with Entity Graph real-world mapping
Facebook Graph Search may have snagged all the headlines, but its new Entity Graph may be the game-changer that tops Google.
Welcome to the real world: Hardware takes over SXSW
The hardware evolution cannot be stopped, and even an app-loving festival like SXSW is getting a taste of this digital evolution.
Despite legal battles, SideCar fights the law in the name of carpooling
Don't get it twisted – SideCar may be giving out ride shares at SXSW, but it's not a taxi service. Passengers need not pay anything unless they want to.
Netflix Social lets you share what you watch with Facebook friends
Netflix users can now share which videos they've watched with Facebook friends, with a new feature called Netflix Social.
Word on the street is Kid Cudi, Sleigh Bells, Diplo to head up Myspace’s secret SXSW concerts
Word on the street is Myspace plans to quietly invade SXSW this year with secret concerts - and we've got inside information on who and when.
Hands on: SocialMe discovers hidden gems in your Facebook profile
Want to know what your Facebook profile really says about you as a person? Enter SocialMe, an app that'll break down your timeline into useful social data.
Facebook ‘likes’ may soon tell companies everything about you
Can you really get to know someone well through Facebook? A study says you can, and that your 'likes' are more meaningful than you thought it could be.
Backstage at a Bravo TV live show taping: Making television more social on the Web
We were invited to attend a taping of Bravo TV's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen at SXSW. Naturally, we couldn't say no.
Our favorite apps at SXSW 2013 (Updated with 11 new apps!)
Curious what mobile projects are coming out of SXSW? We have a round up of all the projects, apps, and devices that will debut in Austin.
Enough! Here are a few ways to mute the SXSW madness
Are you overwhelmed with the amount of SXSW news? Try one of these tricks and get ahead of the overload.
How Facebook’s Graph Search works…sort of
Facebook engineers recently shared a little insight into how the site's Graph Search works. Here's a at what we've learned, and what remains a mystery.
YouTube co-founder teases mystery video collaboration service at SXSW
At SXSW 2013, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley teased the crowd with a few vague details about his upcoming "video-based" collaboration service.
MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes on how film can win the TV market back
With TV shows becoming more theatrical, the one way film can win back its viewers is to get social, local, and enhance the overall movie-going experience.
Just in time for SXSW, TheHub.fm lets you skip the lines and grab the merch
You can avoid the inevitably long lines to buy a band's merch with a new e-commerce mobile app for bands and fans called TheHub.fm.
Negative user comments can sway readers’ reaction to news, read at your own risk
For years, people have argued that "ugly" comments at the end of Internet articles can skew a reader's opinion. A new study backs up that claim.
Nasa wants to beat Bieber in the Twitter wars (#weapprove)
Social media might be making the world smaller, but NASA is helping us make it bigger - by connecting us to the rest of the universe.
Forget social influence, Prollie scores your skills and passions
Klout, Kred, Peerindex track influence and reach, but SXSW newcomer Prollie scores your skills and passions.
Break out your calculator, because to win at online dating, you’ve got to do your math
She wanted a husband, so she took to online dating. But to find the lover of her dreams, it would take more than just JDate to churn out random guys.
Since Facebook won’t add a dislike button, here comes the Hater app
Everything is always a bit fluffy on Facebook, where you could only Like statuses and photos. That's why Jake Banks launched the Hater app in time for SXSW.
Facebook news you may have missed this week
Five Facebook stories from this week that you might have missed, with the News Feed announcement and all.
Want to tweet from the grave? DeadSocial promises online immortality
DeadSocial has officially launched at SXSW - now you can sign up to manage what happens to your social networks after you've dearly departed.
Facebook acquires Storylane and wants to give you better content
Just a day after announcing the new Facebook news feed design, news of its acquisition of storytelling site Storylane is released.