The flying car is finally getting off the ground! Will pigs follow?
Elliott Morgan looks at how close we really are to living in a Blade Runner universe.
Yesterday, Elliott looked into fauxsumerism, the practice of looking at products but never actually buying anything
Facebook is facing more than just user backlash following news that the social network was purposely trying to manipulate user emotions during a 2012 experiment
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a data regulator in the United Kingdom, is investigating whether or not Facebook violated data collection laws during a user study more than two years ago, according to the Financial Times
During the study, the social network tweaked the News Feed content of nearly 700,000 users, providing some users with fewer negative terms, and others with fewer positive terms. Users were not alerted that they were being used as test subjects, and the study raised privacy concerns when the data was published Read more...
The Internet is no stranger to niche social networking. The Yo app, which simply lets you send the message "yo" to your contacts, became an Internet sensation in a matter of days. So it may come as no surprise that there are now plans for a social network that uses only emoji.
And, according to its founders, it's real. Or at least real enough to be worth a laugh.
Emoj.li is the brainchild of Matt Gray and Tom Scott, cast members of the British version of Technical Difficulties, a podcast and web show looking at the humorous side of technology. (Gray and Scott specified that the project was independent from Technical Difficulties.) Read more...
Vine added a new metric on Tuesday so users can see just how widespread their Vine creations actually are
Vine videos now include a "Loop Count," a metric comparable to the "Views" metric used on other sites like YouTube. The count updates automatically any time the video is played, even on embeds across the web
Some loop counts will include a “+” next to them, indicating the Vine was created before April 3. This is when Vine began counting video loops, so the "+" implies that there are likely existing loops missing from the displayed total Read more...
Guests flocked to the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Brooklyn on Sunday to celebrate Mashable’s fifth annual Social Media Day. This year’s event boasted hundreds of attendees throughout the afternoon and fostered good spirits at the funky, retro-themed venue.
While there, guests played shuffleboard, snapped pictures at a GIF booth, sipped on social media-themed cocktails and socialized with others passionate about our global social media revolution. In between all the activities, guests posted pictures and updates to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook using the #SMDay hashtag. Screens in the venue displayed the social buzz on feeds provided by Mass Relevance Read more...
Do you constantly look for products online which you don't actually end up buying? Yeah, us too
Elliott Morgan takes a hard look at the culture of “fauxsumerism,” the act of looking but never buying.
Yesterday, Elliott set his eyes on the Red Planet
