Twitter Zaps our Minds and Memory- Dr. Tracy Alloway psychologist and director of the Centre for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan at the University of Stirling suggests that Twitter “produces a stream of information every second with no opportunity to process or manipulate that information.” Suggesting that constant Twittering affects your working memory, thus causing a reduction in your attention span. True or not, the bottom line is everything fun is evil, and you should be boring just like everyone else. Seriously though – there appears to be no solid research on this topic. Furthermore, as we all know, doing too much of any one thing will cause deficiencies in other areas …
Facebook wants to be more like Twitter Everyday- Facebook is rolling out a new feature that emulates Twitter like behavior by allowing to you use the ‘@’ symbol to mention your friends. This new Tagging system will allow you to select your friends from a drop down box, once you choose the friend(s) and post an update they will receive an alert on their wall about the post, hmmm…
Facebook Lite Released to the United States- Facebook released a lighter version of their application that includes a subset of features such as viewing events and photos. The main purpose of this app, as mentioned here, is to save bandwidth for users…
Apple Silently Releases iPhone 3.1 OS – Apple released a new update for the iPhone that includes some new features and killed others. One of which is the new genius feature which picks a handful of apps for you based on your apps and what others have- in relation to. One of the more useful features allows you to – finally- easily sort your iphone apps through the new iTunes 9 interface.
Apple also proceeded to kill tethering -where users could basically use the iPhone as a modem to surf the net; using another computer…
Google plans to launch Micro-payments to Publishers-
It was found in a document that “Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which had solicited ideas for how to monetize content online”, that Google plans to launch micro-payments next year. Under this new product Google will allow publishers to charge minor sums to allow users access to publisher content…
Sunday Roundup: Top Stories This Past Week – 9.13.2009
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Tweeter Changes Terms of Service – Twitter announces its terms of service changes – publicly on its blog. Making it clear that you own your own tweets, the advertising door is left open, SPAM will not be tolerated (as usual) and they are still working on guidelines for APIs.
Twitter Zaps our Minds and Memory- Dr. Tracy Alloway psychologist and director of the Centre for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan at the University of Stirling suggests that Twitter “produces a stream of information every second with no opportunity to process or manipulate that information.” Suggesting that constant Twittering affects your working memory, thus causing a reduction in your attention span. True or not, the bottom line is everything fun is evil, and you should be boring just like everyone else. Seriously though – there appears to be no solid research on this topic. Furthermore, as we all know, doing too much of any one thing will cause deficiencies in other areas …
Facebook wants to be more like Twitter Everyday- Facebook is rolling out a new feature that emulates Twitter like behavior by allowing to you use the ‘@’ symbol to mention your friends. This new Tagging system will allow you to select your friends from a drop down box, once you choose the friend(s) and post an update they will receive an alert on their wall about the post, hmmm…
Facebook Lite Released to the United States- Facebook released a lighter version of their application that includes a subset of features such as viewing events and photos. The main purpose of this app, as mentioned here, is to save bandwidth for users…
Apple Silently Releases iPhone 3.1 OS – Apple released a new update for the iPhone that includes some new features and killed others. One of which is the new genius feature which picks a handful of apps for you based on your apps and what others have- in relation to. One of the more useful features allows you to – finally- easily sort your iphone apps through the new iTunes 9 interface.
Apple also proceeded to kill tethering -where users could basically use the iPhone as a modem to surf the net; using another computer…
Google plans to launch Micro-payments to Publishers-
It was found in a document that “Google submitted to the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which had solicited ideas for how to monetize content online”, that Google plans to launch micro-payments next year. Under this new product Google will allow publishers to charge minor sums to allow users access to publisher content…
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