Monthly Archive for June, 2011
You may have already seen the tweets and blog posts about Google+ (Google Plus) yesterday. But just in case you missed them or didn’t have the time to read them, here’s a short summary of Google+ and its 5 main features.
Summary:
Google+ is Google’s social project that makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Read Full Entry
This year eMarketer predicts that Facebook will jump Yahoo to lead display advertisements with 17.7% of the market and $2.19 billion in revenue. Facebook looks to put even more room between themselves and Yahoo in 2012. Read Full Entry
Women and the young drive facebook usage
Some 18% of women update their Facebook status at least once per day. Only 11% of men do the same. At the same time, Facebook users over the age of 35 are the least likely to have ever updated their Facebook profile or to update their status more than 1-2 days per week.
http://bit.ly/lP7ubZ
Power-Generating Artificial Leaf Moves Closer to Reality
MIT creating artificial leaf that creates electricity. Seriously.
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Thanks to their face-recognition software, Facebook knows what you look like. Kinda cool. Kinda creepy. Certainly interesting.
The software allows Facebook to recognize your face in pictures posted on their website. And not just pictures you post, but pictures that others post as well (worried about that candid picture your ex took of you in college? We’ll address that later).
The feature isn’t actually all that new. Facebook launched the software in the U.S. back in December 2010. Since then, they’ve slowly rolled it out in other countries. But rest assure, your face has probably been scanned at some point.
So what does all this face-remembering business mean? Well, it depends on who you are and why you use Facebook. Read Full Entry
