In an effort to make Evite obsolete and turn the invitation service industry upside down, Google recently launched Google+ Events. The new product, which was announced yesterday at the annual Google I/O conference, will break up an event into three distinct phases and add a social element that encourages guest participation and interaction. Below are …
Larry Page, Google’s 39-year-old Chief Executive Officer, has been absent from the company’s annual meeting and will not be making any public appearances “for the time being.” Page, who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, recently stated that he had lost his voice and, as a result, would not appear at several previously scheduled events. In …
Even though most Facebook users were not even aware that they had a Facebook email address, the social network recently changed the publicly displayed email address for its more than 900 million users. Now, instead of your “real” email address (email@gmail.com) being displayed, your Facebook email (facebook.url@facebook.com) is displayed on the Facebook profile page. For …
Although Facebook has not yet officially announced it, the social network has quietly launched a new feature called “Find Friends Nearby.” The feature, which allows Facebook users to easily find new friends by accessing a Finds Friends Nearby (FFN) page, utilizes location data and a mobile web page to create a list of all Facebook …
On August 1st, a new Louisiana law that requires sex offenders and child predators to declare their criminal status on social networking sites will go into effect. The law, which was introduced by Louisiana State Representative Jeff Thompson, introduces new online sex offender registration laws that are similar to the current offline laws: “Sex offenders …
With languages disappearing at an unprecedented rate, linguistic experts are predicting that over 3,000 of the world’s approximately 7,000 languages will become extinct in the next 100 years. As a result of this problem, Google has partnered with the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity and launched the new Endangered Language Project website to combat the extinction …
When one of Facebook’s 900 million plus users clicks the “Report” button, the world’s largest social network has multiple security teams ready to take immediate action. On Tuesday, Facebook posted the following information on their blog concerning the “Report” button: “There are dedicated teams throughout Facebook working 24 hours a day, seven days a week …
Google recently announced that the United States and several other Western governments drastically increased the number of censorship requests during the second half of 2011. The most recent Google Transparency Report, which is Google’s fifth transparency report since 2009, indicates that the U.S. government has increased the number of censorship requests by an alarming 718%. …
Over the weekend, news broke that Facebook has agreed to pay $10 million in order to settle a lawsuit related to Sponsored Stories. The five Facebook users that initiated the lawsuit alleged that the social network had violated California law by broadcasting their Facebook activities for profit. The settlement agreement, which will require Facebook to …
YouTube, the leading video website in the world, streams over 4 billion videos daily. Although the site is currently monetized through advertisements and site sponsorships, the company is reportedly considering charging users for access to premium content in the near future. During a recent interview with Reuters, Google’s Senior Vice President of YouTube, Salar Kamangar, …
