| 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' Dominates YouTube's Top Trailers List of 2012 | | YouTube has revealed the most popular trailers of 2012, and video games have come out on top of movies and television. The two most popular trailers of the year, with 35.2 and 29.6 million views, respectively, are trailers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Two other trailers for the same game hold the eight and tenth positions on the list. Collectively, the four trailers have a whopping 82 million views.
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| A Facebook Ad Network? Not So Fast | | Marketers will have to wait a little longer to advertise on Facebook's third-party ad network. A company spokesperson confirmed to Mashable Wednesday that it is halting its mobile-ads test on third-party apps. "While the results we have seen and the feedback from partners has been positive, our focus is on scaling ads in mobile news feed before ads off of Facebook.
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| Twitter Appoints New COO and CFO | | Twitter has shaken up its executive ranks, appointing a new chief operating officer and chief financial officer. The microblogging site named Ali Rowghani its COO, a new role he quietly announced by changing his Twitter profile. Rowghani's LinkedIn profile, however, still lists him as the company's CFO. Before joining Twitter in 2010, he worked at Pixar (including a stint as CFO) for eight years.
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| This $5 Lamp Is Powered Solely by Gravity | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:59 PM | Joann Pan |
| There aren't any batteries or fuel in the $5 revolutionary lamp called the GravityLight. The ultra-cheap lamp was created as a replacement for expensive and highly polluting kerosene-powered lanterns, which are widely used in developing countries. London-based designers Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have been working on the GravityLight as a side project for the four years.
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| Apple Maps: 3 Times More Likely to Get You Lost Than Google | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:18 PM | Chris Taylor |
| For iPhone users, Google Maps is back. The revamped app, launched last week, is being downloaded in the tens of millions. As a result, iOS6 activations are on the rise. And Apple finally has the breathing room it needs to overhaul its much maligned Maps app, the default on the platform. But just how much of a hill does Apple still have to climb in order to compete? Quite a steep one.
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| 5 Lessons From the Instagram Debacle | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:04 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Remember all the way back on Tuesday, when everyone and their artistically-filtered dog was freaking out about Instagram's new privacy policy? How long ago that seems, now that co-founder Kevin Systrom (above) has walked back the notion that your photos are potentially going to be used in ads. We're cool now, right? Actually, the jury is still out on this one.
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| Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:46 PM | Nextgov |
| The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a web discussion Wednesday. The governments of India and Ghana have already launched beta versions of their data catalogues on the open source platform, said Jeanne Holm who heads the Data.gov team.
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| 16 Things You Forgot Happened in 2012 | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:14 PM | Matt Petronzio |
| This has been quite the eventful year. What with the U.S. presidential election, Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath, the continued influence of social media in the Arab Spring and countless other major headlines, it's easy for smaller yet nonetheless significant news events to escape our memories.
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| Twitter Begins Rolling Out Downloadable Tweets to All Users | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:53 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Twitter confirmed Wednesday that it has begun rolling out the ability to download all of your tweets. "Today, we’re introducing the ability to download your Twitter archive, so you’ll get all your Tweets (including Retweets) going back to the beginning," the company said in a blog post.
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| How Red Bull Takes Content Marketing to the Extreme | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:27 AM | James O'Brien |
| James O'Brien writes for The Content Strategist, a digital magazine by Contently, the leading technology company for brand publishing tools and talent. The button is five stops in, counting from the left on the homepage of RedBull.com. Along the smaller of two navigation bars, it's sandwiched between "Audio" and "Games." There it is, the fifth one: "JUST EPIC." In a sense, the channel embodies Red Bull's entire marketing approach.
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| Doomsday 2012: Watch the 'End of the World' Live Online | | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:24 AM | Space.com |
| Anyone worried that the world will come to an end Friday (Dec. 21) can scan the heavens online this week for any signs of death from above. The online Slooh Space Camera will broadcast a series of live cosmic views all week, beginning today (Dec. 17).
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