Are you Australian and totally hooked on 140 character communication, hashtags and all? Professor Helen Partridge from the Queensland University Of Technology wants you!
Even as news spread that Chrome was now the world’s most popular web browser, Facebook ended up as the focal point in last night’s discussion between Google CEO Larry Page and talk show host Charlie Rose. Rose asked what’s on a lot of people’s minds: Given Facebook’s mammoth IPO, was Larry Page worried?
Plenty of people are still unwrapping their undies after the move to Facebook’s super-graphical Timeline look — and now the company is ready to mix things up again. Check out what your profile might look like soon.
After 11 years in the making and more setbacks than we care to count, Blizzard has finally unleashed a third instalment to its cult classic dungeon crawler. Having waited over a decade, the arrival of Diablo III was a bittersweet moment for eager fans. In what must’ve felt like a cruel joke, missteps in Blizzard’s execution prevented many users from accessing content throughout last Tuesday.
Facebook is public now. And that means you’re going public too. Facebook has to make you share more. It has to make you expose more of yourself. It has to do all those deeply creepy it’s already doing, but more more more. It is going to sell you to advertisers, to shareholders, to anyone it can.
Facebook money money stock Facebook NASDAQ hoodie Zuckerberg Facebook. There’s a lot of noise today, but amid the foam-mouthed financial babble, here are some funny things instead. Instead of becoming rich, let’s laugh today.
As a species, we are very stupid and fascinated with things that have nothing to do with us. It’s what drives ordinarily sane people to, say, stand in Times Square and take photos of rich people doing rich people things on jumbotrons. And also what drives us to follow, minute-by-minute, the outrageous wealth of a 28-year-old billionaire.