Google Maps To Get A Major Design Overhaul + MORE 05/07/2013
Alex Chitu reports Google is testing a new Google Maps interface, possibly to be launched next week at Google I/O. The new interface is a complete and major overhaul of the current Google Maps user interface. The design and interface changes touch everything from the map colors, icons and text...
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North Korean Propaganda Video Shows Obama In Flames 02/20/2013
In a video uploaded to North Korea's official YouTube channel, President Barack Obama is shown with images of flames overlayed on top of him. The video also shows American troops in flames and simulation of a nuclear device exploding. NKNews has translated the text in the movie: North Korea has suc.... More »
SlideShare Email Tracking: This Week in Social Media + MORE 02/16/2013
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
SlideShare Introduces Send Tracker for Email Tracking: “With SlideShare’s new Send.... More »
LinkedIn Is Still Quietly Gunning For Yammer And Salesforce.com (LNKD, CRM, MSFT) + MORE 02/26/2013
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner keeps dropping clues about his company's next big move. At the Morgan Stanley Technology Media & Telecom conference in San Francisco Monday, he mentioned that his company was testing tools for private information sharing. Since users already track professional contacts a.... More »
The Week Begins, And Asian Markets Are Rising + MORE 05/06/2013
After Friday's big, jobs-report induced rally in the U.S., Asian markets are jumping. Australia is up 1.3%. And via Dee Wang Morris, some nice gains in Hong Kong. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
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HOW FADS START: One High School In California Is Responsible For A Mobile Craze 3.4 Million People Use
– http://www.businessinsider.com/
When Evan Spiegel, 22, and Bobby Murphy, 24, launched Snapchat in September 2011, they shared it with 20 friends. Snapchat is a mobile app that lets users take and send mobile photos to others. Messages can be drawn or typed on top of the photos and the images self-destruct moments after they are viewed. Today Snapchat has about 3.4 million users and 60 million images are swapped daily. That’s one-tenth the volume Facebook sees. It may be a fad like DrawSomething proved to be last year…Instagram Expands to Desktops: This Week in Social Media
– http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/
Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What’s New This Week?
Instagram Feed for PCs: Instagram has gone beyond its mobile-only interface and now allows you to browse Instagram feeds from the desktop – just like you do on your mobile device. Go to instagram.com and log into your account to give it a try…