Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic

Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World - Ethan Zuckerman - The Atlantic: "Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't."

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes

  How does this work? In one of their brochures, direct marketing services company Harte-Hanks describes the GeoCapture service they offer retail businesses as follows: “Users simply capture name from the credit card swipe and request a customer’s ZIP code during the transaction. GeoCapture matches the collected information to a comprehensive consumer database to return an address.”  In a promotional brochure, they claim accuracy rates as high as 100%.

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider: There are 10 independent YouTube stars who made over $100,000 in the past year, according to a study done by analytics and advertising company TubeMogul.

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

 Your Museum of Me is a white structure located in an unidentified utopia space far beyond city limits. There's a green open field, a shallow pond and clean white pavement surrounding your incubator-like museum. To enter, just click.

Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld

Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld:

Google+ is now the world’s second largest social network, outranking Twitter that comes in at the number four position. But both social networks are still far behind Facbook, which is used by more than 51 percent of the world’s online population, according to a new survey.

Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com

Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com:

Android smartphone owners can finally stop trading dirty looks with their iPhone-carrying friends: Twitter's increasingly popular Vine six-second video and creativity app is finally available on the Android platform.

Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!

Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!:

The new update fills up nearly all the blank space with a mosaic of images with large, high res photos prominently displayed. The navigation is revamped as well and the whole thing looks and functions like a dream.

Of course, if this doesn’t bring the masses back to Flickr, the Free Terabyte of Storage will!