| Happy 7th Birthday, Twitter | | Twitter is celebrating its 7th birthday with a video showing a short history of the service, from its humble beginnings and co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet, to the present day, when it boasts 200 million users.
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| YouTube Now Has One Billion Monthly Users | | We all know YouTube is the biggest video sharing site around, but how big is it, exactly, when compared to sites such as Facebook or Twitter? Here's a hint: YouTube has just hit one billion monthly unique users. For comparison, Facebook hit that milestone in October 2012. It took the social network eight years to reach one billion active users — almost the exact amount of time as YouTube, which was founded in February 2005.
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| More Twitter Chatter Correlates to Higher TV Ratings, Study Reveals | | A new study reveals that more Twitter chatter correlates to higher television ratings. By analyzing tweets about live TV, Nielsen and SocialGuide found that Twitter is one of three "statistically significant variables" to influence ratings. The other two factors are a show's ratings from the previous year and advertising spending.
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| AE Outfitters Trolls the Internet With 'Skinny Skinny' Jeans Ad | | U.S. clothing retailer American Eagle Outfitters released a new video ad Wednesday that has gone viral for its daring take on the derriere. The 30-second spot, above, advertises American Eagle's supposed new line of jeans called AEO Skinny Skinny ("It's our skinniest fit yet and is so comfortable you'll feel like you're wearing nothing at all," boasts the YouTube description).
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| iPhone GPS App Scout Offers Personalized Directions | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 10:30 PM | Emily Price |
| As Apple works on improving its built-in Maps app, the Cupertino, Calif. company has left room for several mapping apps to win a place in iPhone owner’s hearts. One mobile GPS app called Scout recently skyrocketed to number two in the App Store, and provides users with turn-by-turn directions to their next location, as well as a few other features.
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| These Pics Didn't Exist Before Digital Cameras | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:59 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| Back when Polaroids and disposable cameras were popular, we didn't have the luxury of deleting dozens of pictures to make space for more. We simply had to make 24 exposures or 10 squares of instant film last entire vacations and special occasions (or actually pay for more film). Now with DSLRs, memory cards and smartphones, we can capture anything without a second thought.
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| Pentagon Dumps BlackBerry for iPhone, iPads: Report | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 8:06 PM | Chris Taylor |
| With BlackBerry about to launch the Z10 at the end of this week — the flagship of its BlackBerry 10 line — this isn't the best time for one of the company's largest customers to bow out. Especially not when that customer is the U.S. military. But that's about to happen, according to a report from Electronista. The site has "well-placed sources" inside the Department of Defense's mobile device testing program, currently underway.
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| Facebook Like a Ninja With These Keyboard Shortcuts | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:16 PM | Amy-Mae Elliott |
| Did you know Facebook offers an entire range of keyboard shortcuts, designed for keyboard-only users? You can easily navigate the social network like a ninja once you've learned a few simple commands. SEE ALSO: How to Send a Voice Message via Facebook | 25 Clever Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts | 10 Tips and Tricks for Powerful Twitter Search Take a look through our quick and easy guide to get you started.
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| Google Keep Launches ... For Real This Time | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:24 PM | Christina Warren |
| Days after the product's early leak, Google officially rolled out its new Evernote-like service, Google Keep. On its blog, Google describes Google Keep as a way to "quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what's important to you." With Google Keep, you can create notes, checklists, photos and voice memos — and all the content syncs across your devices.
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| Facebook Tests iOS Notification That Nags You to Post an Update | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 4:50 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook's modus operandi is that it tests all kinds of things all the time just to see what sticks. So, don't be too alarmed about this notification feature which Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital, tweeted about this week: A Facebook rep says that the feature is in a "small test we're running." As Sabet's reaction illustrates, the feature has the potential to irk users.
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| Everything You Need to Know About the New Pinterest | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:53 PM | Stephanie Buck |
| Pinterest had the good fortune of surging in popularity relatively soon after launching its beta in 2010. However, after registering millions of users, the social network still had a lot of work to do. At first, the site was buggy, the UI wasn't especially intuitive and the overall service lacked some significant features. But what saved the visual social network was Pinterest's game-changing design.
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| World's First Robotic LEGO Band Rocks Out | | Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:02 AM | Discovery News |
| When we were kids, my brother I constructed cars out of LEGO blocks and ramped them off jumps made from matboard and pillows. The sound of the cars exploding into dozens of pieces as they crashed was almost musical, but no where near as musical as what Giuseppe Acito has done.
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