social networking
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FireMe!: A Running List Of People Tweeting How Much They Hate Their Jobs
“I hate my job!!!!” “My boss is a total idiot — get me out of here!!!” “I have the worst job”. Social media does funny things to some people. While most would sensibly avoid calling their bungling boss an idiot to their face, many don’t think twice before venting their anger and frustration on Twitter.…
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Facebook Rolls Out Threaded Comments To Pages And Popular Profiles
What was once just an infinitely looping twinkle in a Facebook developer’s eye has officially become a reality: comments in reply to comments in reply to posts. For now, the new threaded comments are only going to be available to Pages and individual public profiles with 10,000+ followers or more.
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Watch An Entire Year Of Foursquare Check-Ins Light Up NYC And Tokyo
We all see the occasional check-in on our social networks of choice, but Foursquare took a whole year of them and crammed them into one glorious minute of glowing information. The whole mess of data is condensed down into a colour-coded 24-hour span so you can see how people — Foursquarers at least — dart…
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Sex, Twitter And Maths Are Making TV Smarter
Ratings don’t matter anymore. Well, Nielsen ratings don’t matter anymore. While we may have known that implicitly for some time now, Wired says that network execs and advertisers — the people who underwrite TV shows — are wising up to the importance of engagement over eyeballs.