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.
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
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.
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.
Amazon's outage has brought down Reddit, Foursquare, Quora, paper.li, Hootsuite, LiveFyre and possibly Publishers Weekly website as well as many others.
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.