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YouTube made a big announcement on Wednesday night — ten digits big to be exact. The video-sharing startup that spent its early days operating out of an apartment above a pizzeria now boasts one billion users.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
Discovered: Tick bites can lead to red meat allergies; networking gets you farther ahead in the US job market; scientists develop ways to extract CO2 from the atmosphere; too much light at night can cause depression.
The news last week The WELL, what many consider the first ever online social network, faces impending doom, has inspired Mike Barthel to write a history of Internet politics over at The Awl, explaining the conflicts modern social networks, like Facebook, face today.
Our post on keeping kids safe on Facebook inspired some interesting discussions on parenting in the comments.
Airtime, the new video chat site from the Napster guys, has been out for a few days now, and we decided to see what it's like. Unfortunately, it seems it's already devolving into a bunch of guys looking for boobs. (But, no penises!)
This afternoon Napster creators Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning launched something that sounds awfully similar to Chatroulette, that randomized video chatting service turned into a hub for exhibitionist men before it was shut down.
Pinterest, the social network that encourages image hoarding, hasn't done a very good job preparing for the inevitable copyright scandal the site will face.
The Wall Street Journal has boiled down the failure of Google+ to make a dent in the social network dominance of Facebook, which we have noted for months to two simple stats: users spend about three minutes per month on Google+ compared to six to seven hours a month on Facebook.
Pinterest has a classic Internet problem: It doesn't know how to make money off of its popularity.
We'd like to congratulate smartphone only, micro-social network Path on its first mini-scandal, as it signals a sort of ascent to relevance in the social networking world.
Google's making its Google+ user engagement sound like a bonanza success story, but is it really as great as the company suggests?
As Pinterest positions itself to be the new Tumblr -- or better yet, Facebook -- it's about time we figured out what exactly this new-ish social network does.
After teasing the project formerly named Tulalip over the summer and then giving tech blog The Verge a sneak peak, Microsoft has launched their social network, So.cl.
This morning, Google+ got some major celebrity cachet with Britney Spears surpassing Google CEO Larry Page as the most followed person on the network.
Life in America has gotten lonelier over the past 25 years, if a new study is to be believed.
Testing the old social psychology theory is fun for you and for advertisers
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