Visualize Your Personal Networks with MIT’s Immersion Tool for Gmail

Did you know you could extract simple information from your emails to visualize how you and the people in your life are interconnected? Three researchers at MIT knew, and they created an online tool to map your personal networks by analyzing metadata from your emails. The tool, called Immersion, uses only the From, To, Cc,… Continue reading Visualize Your Personal Networks with MIT’s Immersion Tool for Gmail

REPORT: 6% of Adults Online Use Reddit

Self-described as the “front page of the internet,” Reddit is a collection of user-submitted text, links, photos, videos and comments. Six percent of online adults happen to use Reddit according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Pew examined Reddit as a standalone platform for the first time… Continue reading REPORT: 6% of Adults Online Use Reddit

How to Reach America’s Mobile Moms [REPORT]

Did you know that moms often control household budgets and expenses? This makes them the prime audience for the development of exciting new applications and of course many brands’ advertising efforts. Moms, like everyone else, like to use apps, which can often signal our personal tastes and interests. There are a ton of apps and… Continue reading How to Reach America’s Mobile Moms [REPORT]

REPORT: Google+ Could Overtake Facebook by 2016

Could you imagine any social network growing bigger than Facebook? Probably not, but few people were ready to predict MySpace’s downfall, either. While Facebook might not be going down per say, a new report by Searchmetrics analyzing over 30 trillion social signals suggests that Google+ could overtake Facebook in total sharing as early as 2016! This… Continue reading REPORT: Google+ Could Overtake Facebook by 2016

Create a Twitter Video Highlight Reel Using Vizify’s #FollowMe

Have you ever wanted to capture a highlight reel of your best Twitter moments? Now you can bring your most engaging photos, Vine videos and tweets together into an awesome highlight reel of your Twitter profile, all within a few clicks. Just after making its analytics data public, Twitter has teamed up with Vizify to… Continue reading Create a Twitter Video Highlight Reel Using Vizify’s #FollowMe

Now Find Your Most Popular Tweets with Twitter Analytics

After a long time of only allowing advertising partners to access its Analytics, Twitter has now opened its Analytics feature to all Twitter users. According to The Verge, the tool allows users to check on the performance of their tweets and view information about their followers in table and graph form. Have you been wondering… Continue reading Now Find Your Most Popular Tweets with Twitter Analytics

90 Ideas to Change the World: Announcing the Finalists for the 2013 Google Science Fair

Many great scientists happened to develop their curiosity for science and the unknown at an early age. So earlier this year, Google asked some of the brightest young minds from around the world to present innovative ideas that could one day change the world for the better. The 2013 Google Science Fair has attracted many exciting… Continue reading 90 Ideas to Change the World: Announcing the Finalists for the 2013 Google Science Fair

Google Leaves Facebook in the Dust in Waze Bidding War with $1.3 Billion Offer

Weeks after Facebook made an offer for the navigation app Waze, Google makes a winning bid to acquire the Israel-based startup: a $1.3-billion bid, that is. Waze is a mobile navigation app that crowdsources real time traffic data from users and aggregates that data to report information about traffic congestion, police presence, road accidents, speed… Continue reading Google Leaves Facebook in the Dust in Waze Bidding War with $1.3 Billion Offer