Antisocial Halloween: top 5 ways to scare yourself silly online this year
The spookiest time of the year is here. People are making their costumes, which have social or pop culture commentary,...
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Bitcoin…’The perfect store of wealth. The perfect asset’?
As the old saying goes "all good things must come to an end" and it appears that Bitcoin is no...
The highs and lows of Accelerator Programs for entrepreneurs #interview
More start-ups are applying to accelerator programs but are they still worth it, can they really help entrepreneurs? We speak with Luke Deering to see.
Google & Wikipedia generated over half a million anti-SOPA, PIPA tweets in one day
Using the social search engine Topsy we examine how Google, Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress, Reddit, and ICanhasCheezBurger's users tweeted awareness of the anti-SOPA, anti-PIPA campaigns
Wikipedia community has spoken, global anti-SOPA blackout protest begins Wednesday
The Wikipedia community has spoken. A 24-hour anti-SOPA blackout protest will begin on Wednesday, January 18 at 5pm Western European Time (WET). During this 24-hour period, English language Wikipedia articles will be unavailable globally - a unprecedented move never before seen in the crowd-sourced encyclopedia's 11-year history.
White House criticizes SOPA/PIPA – calls for “sound legislation” against foreign content piracy
The White House has stepped into the SOPA/PIPA debates: broadly criticising the acts, the entertainment industry and Silicon Valley.
GoDaddy “no longer supports sopa” after Cheezburger, Wikipedia, & others threaten boycott
GoDaddy has dramatically reversed its support for The Stop Online Piracy Act after Wikipedia, Cheezburger, and Reddit, Twitter users threaten boycott.
Amazon “all hands on deck” but many social networking sites still down
Amazon says that they are "all hands on deck" try to resolve the massive cloud server failure in North Virginia which brought down many big name social networking websites.
How did Amazon bring down some of the world’s largest social networks?
Amazon's outage has brought down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, paper.li, Hootsuite, LiveFyre and possibly Publishers Weekly website as well as many others.
SME and social media, for hits StumbleUpon is good but Facebook is better
Statistics, it is said, are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Earlier this month TNW reported, quoting Statcounter Global stats, that StumbleUpon had surpassed Facebook in the US as the site that created the most social media referrers. The article also reported it was the second most popular traffic-generating site globally after Facebook.
