Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends?
When Google+ launched last week, one of the most discussed features was Circles. In case you haven't read a single blog, Tweet, or Google+ post in the last week (and yet, somehow stumbled into this d...
Facebook bans Google+ ad
Ingenuity is surely something to be admired. Commercial ingenuity is something to be revered. — Sometimes, though, it seems that certain tech companies only revere their own ingenuity. That seems ...
Google Tests an Interface Optimized for Infinite Scrolling
Alon Laudon spotted a new experimental interface for Google's results pages. The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigati...
App Makers and Twitter Feel Strains
The relationship between Twitter and the outside developers that build its apps is a little like the one between sharks and the small fish that latch onto their backs — beneficial for both, until it i...
Behind the hike: Why Netflix is raising prices
Why is Netflix raising its prices? In part, because the company miscalculated how many people still want to receive DVDs by mail each month, a more expensive service to provide compared to its stream...
Women's World Cup Soccer Final Scores New Twitter Record With 7,196 Tweets Per Second
After an epic run, the U.S. women's soccer team succumbed to Japan today in the final of the Women's World Cup tournament. And if you were paying attention to your Twitter stream today …
U.S. Army may soon equip troops with smartphones
For U.S. Army troops, smartphones could become requisite field gear, along with boots, guns and ammunition. The Army is wrapping up a six-week program to test the viability of using touchscreen phone...
Italy Censors Proxy That Bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block
After an Italian court ordered all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay in 2008, this year the authorities shifted their focus to making BTjunkie unavailable too. — This week it turned out that not all Inte...