Google Rolls Out Free Music Service In China
Google has introduced a new music service in China that will give users access to free downloads of licensed songs.
Mozilla Labs: Help, We’re Out Of Ideas
The research section behind Firefox’s parent company turned to the broader Internet community to find new concepts to mine.
Voters Going Online For Candidate Information
While television remains the primary source for voters to get information on the presidential candidates positions, the Internet is the second most used source with 17.8 percent of voters saying they get their information about election issues online according to a survey from Burst Media.One-fifth (21.5%) of men say the Internet is their main source on the positions that the presidential candidates have on major election issues. Among men 25-34 years old, 28.6 percent cite the Internet as their primary source of election information.
Get Your “This is My Profile Face” Shirt
We’ve decided to start a new fun thing here at Ignite Social Media. Limited edition social media shirts. We’re geeks. You’re a geek. We’re proud of it (well, most of the time…). Hopefully you are, too. So let’s wear our social media geekiness, not just on our sleeve, but on our whole upper body.
33,000 Clear Travelers Information Compromised
A TSA Laptop containing names, social security numbers, passport numbers, and a host of other personal information has been stolen out of a locked cabinet at the San Francisco Airport, and no the hard drive was not encrypted. There is no notification of the breach at the flyclear.com site, nor has anything been reported on the breech blog or on the attrition.org data loss site on this issue yet.
Facebook Alters App Measurement System
When trying to separate the good Facebook applications from the bad – or at least the popular apps from the ostracized ones – a statistic known as the "daily active user count" often came in handy. Facebook’s now trying to make it better by switching to a monthly perspective, and the social network is even recommending apps to some users.
California Sues Online Travel Company
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing an online travel business for operating a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited thousands of members with misleading claims that they could earn huge sums of money through its online travel agencies.
Reddit Turns Half-Life Meme Into CERN Gift
CERN will receive a wrecking bar from Reddit on behalf of its user community, a love of the game Half-Life, and a cheeky sense of humor.
Googler Proposes Twice Via Google Street View
See, here’s how it works if you fall on the naturalist/biochemical side of love rather than the esoteric/spiritual side: The male species of human, as is common across non-asexually reproductive species, often makes grand gestures during the mating ritual in order to win the affection and devotion of the female.
Friendster Gets New CEO, $20 Million In Funding
Friendster is a social network that almost never gets mentioned in the same breath as MySpace and Facebook. Googlers living in Australia are also a little distance away from what’s seen as the mainstream. Add these two things together, though – and toss in $20 million – and you have an intriguing development.