Since Google Launched their new social network Google Plus and integrated it with search using Search Plus Your World, there has been a lot of talk about Google being biased and only showing G+ profiles for searches like “food” or “music.”
Try this: search for music, movies, or photography by using these exact terms. You will see that Google recommends Google+ profiles that you should visit in the right column.
The problem is, most of these accounts are not kept updated as often as Twitter or Facebook.
Way back in 2009 a wonderful human being named Casey Pugh decided to remake the original Star Wars film in 15 second chunks. Oh and each chunk would be made by a different amateur film maker. It all came together via the internet to make this wonderful movie you see before you. I hope you have two hours to kill.
Shout out to Crunchyroll for being where I found out about this.
MyPermissions makes it easy to manage your social network and online service application permissions.
Privacy is one the biggest concerns when it comes to social networking and online activities. That’s why it’s a good idea to know who has access to your personal information.
In 2007 Youtube began keeping track of how many hours of video were uploaded every minute. Back then, six hours of video was uploaded every single minute. In 2010, that number increased to around 48.
Today, Google has announced that every minute, 60 hours of video is uploaded to Youtube. That’s one hour of video every second!
Previously Google created charts and infofraphics to illustrate the data usage on Youtube’s servers and to showcase this mind-boggling engagement. But because of the the latest growth, they decided to launch onehourpersecond.com.
Hey, Neighbor! is a new social network that wants to help you build relationships with the people that live around you.
It’s narrow focus on neighborhoods and apartment complexes makes it stand out from the crowd. The sole purpose is to enrich your real world interactions with your neighbors in an age where we rarely interact with the people that live closest to us.
Obama and the current White House Administration just joined Google Plus to add to their arsenal of social media networks. This administration has been the most technologically advanced in the history of U.S. Politics. →Keep Reading
That’s right we said draw your own music. Gliss is an iOS app that makes it easy for anyone to create their own music by drawing on the screen.
Gliss has a user interface reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and lets you draw with your finger to make music. From the developer:
“Gliss lets you play sound files and mix them easily by drawing on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. With gliss you can load your sounds and draw them on the gliss sequencer in a quick, intuitive way that lets you make music on the fly. Play your mix using a tempo or scrub through by tilting your iPhone.”
For some reason it brought back memories of playing with Mario Paint’s music making feature on the SNES for me *nostalgia*.
Apple announced today at an education event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City that they are re-inventing the textbook with the introduction of the iBooks 2 App. →Keep Reading
By now you should know what SOPA is because it’s becoming a household name on the Internet.
Both bills, SOPA and PIPA (if passed) would allow the US government to seek a court order to shut down websites that contained content or links the government and corporations deemed “copyright infringement.”
The wording in the bill is too broad and leaves way too much power for big corporations to wield. →Keep Reading
