Online
Online
Twitter’s New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
8:50AM Ryan Tate | Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking “What’s happening?” rather than the old “What are you doing?” We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. More »
Online
Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Ads
4:50AM Ryan Tate | Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $US5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company’s top-drawer investors can be happy. More »
Online
80% Won’t Pay For Online Content, The Other 20% Are Lying
8:40AM Ryan Tate | Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4000 people polled, 80 per cent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay. More »
Online
Indian Kids Work Cheap For Google
2:49AM Ryan Tate | It’s great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to school children. Less great: It gives the victor in India one-twentieth of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest. More »
Online
Hollywood Invents Celebrity Twittering For Dollars
12:37PM Richard Rushfield | When show business spots a corner of public consciousness not colonised by product placement and paid endorsements, its experts spring to work to take care of that. More »
Online
Google’s Search Box Suggestions Hide Nothing
7:38AM Ryan Tate | There are things you don’t tell your husband. There are things you don’t tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google’s search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its “suggestion” feature. More »
Online
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google
4:15AM Ryan Tate | For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within “months”. The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that’s just its way of making search hugely profitable. More »
Online
Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print
9:39PM Ravi Somaiya | The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently “indecipherable”. Except it wasn’t. More »
Online
9:49AM Jess McGuire | If I’m honest with myself, I am absolutely guilty of updating my Facebook status regularly without having anything of any importance to say. Nevertheless, I still roll my eyes and make fun of other people who do the same thing. But what do I know? Turns out updating your status constantly might stop you from being sent to the hoosegow! I’m in the pokie, Tina! I’m in the joint! The slammer! The clink! The can! More »
Incessantly Updating Your Facebook Status CAN Be A Good Idea!
9:49AM Jess McGuire | If I’m honest with myself, I am absolutely guilty of updating my Facebook status regularly without having anything of any importance to say. Nevertheless, I still roll my eyes and make fun of other people who do the same thing. But what do I know? Turns out updating your status constantly might stop you from being sent to the hoosegow! I’m in the pokie, Tina! I’m in the joint! The slammer! The clink! The can! More »
Online
