Instagram photos too one dimensional? Add soundtracks to your images with these apps
Fact: Music and photography are both universally enjoyed by many. Here's a list of apps you can try to make it easier to manage these two obsessions.
Google outbids Facebook to aquire Waze for $1.1 billion
Google finalized a deal to acquire Waze, a six-year-old socially sourced GPS navigation app with 40 million active users. The purchase was a move to outbid Facebook and keep its lead in the map world.
Here’s proof that you probably won’t finish this article
Most people don't actually read articles top to bottom, and despite having just a small grasp of the author's point, readers will tweet anyway.
China allowing Twitter and Facebook access! Oh wait … not quite
Conference participants are being allowed to tweet and update Facebook, but the permission comes with quite a few caveats. Don't expect the censor-heavy country to start loosening its grip on social sites anytime soon.
Chirpify cuts out the PayPal middle man, you can now pay directly in your social streams
Social commerce start-up Chirpify has been reliant on PayPal to enable transactions - until now. The system now lets you pay anyone - brands, friends, artists - using the system directly and immediately without leaving your feed.
‘My Pocket Pal’ explores an Instagram-made friendship between two strangers
Even on social networks, close friendships between strangers be struck as "My Pocket Pal" filmmaker Jean Antolini had done with Instagram user @DCW805.
Here’s why you shouldn’t be surprised that people share more Vines than Instagrams on Twitter
If you look at how often they're getting shared on Twitter, Vine appears more popular than Instagram. But you shouldn't use Twitter as a barometer.
Vine may not be releasing an API soon, but here’s how to access it
Can't wait to get your hands on the Vine API? Here's a workaround. Just know that it's all Twitter-unsanctioned business.
RIP, Facebook Sponsored Stories! We shall dance on your grave
Facebook's Sponsored Stories ads are going to that big deluxe apartment in the sky. The stuff that inspired lawsuits and user opt-outs will be taken out back and shot!
Is your band missing its lead guitarist? Giggem is a LinkedIn for the musician market
Giggem steps in to offered a LinkedIn option for the music world with its matchmaking algorithms to bring bands together.
Facebook news you may have missed: A cash-stealing virus, ad cutbacks, and a report that Facebook leads to breakup city
Watch out for the Zeus Trojan, Facebook is cutting down on ads, and Home is update in this week in Facebook news you may have missed.
WTF, Internet? Celebrities don’t need their own apps (and neither do you)
WTF, Internet? This week's Web indiscretion comes courtesy of celebrity apps, perhaps the most self-important way that an already famous person could approach social media.
Prosecutor posts as accused killer’s fake girlfriend on Facebook, gets fired
Definitely a tactic that should have been left up to the lead detective on the case, an Ohio prosecutor recently lost his job after attempting to manipulate alibi testimony using Facebook.
Arrested for tweeting in Turkey: The social media machine of the #Occupygezi movement
It's hard to call Twitter and Facebook frivolous when they're crucial organizing and awareness-building tools - and in the case of Turkey's #Occupygezi movement, social sites are proving their worth.
It’s time to dust the cobwebs and drunk college pics off your social media profiles
Your social profiles have amassed quite a bit of content - and if you've had them for awhile, it's time to start cleaning the digital memories out. Seriously, don't turn into a virtual hoarder. It's time to let some things go.