Did you spend Valentine’s day single and alone, forced to endure cloying Facebook friend status updates that read like middle school love notes written by a short bus-riding version of Pablo Neruda? Updates like “2 my love – I love you soooooooo much! I love loving you!!!!!!! Love love love love love!!!!!!!!!” or “im the [...]

It’s a couple days until your big job interview and a good friend of yours just tagged you in that album with last night’s party photos. You look at it and they’re photos you’d rather not want your potential boss to see. In addition, with the timeline rolling out throughout Facebook, you would have to [...]

Google recently set out to try to quantify what makes a video funny. Finally, will the longstanding mystery that is RayWilliamJohnson’s perceived funniness be solved? I wouldn’t bet on it. Late last year, Google tried to quantify and rank musical talent in videos. Yeah, so much good your impossibly complex machine nincompoopery accomplished there, Google, [...]

Creating content is much like being a superhero. Quite literally Superman could bust hundreds if not thousands of jaywalkers and shoplifters a day. Luckily for the citizens of Metropolis, Superman aims much higher than petty theft and traffic violators. The Man of Steel knows that his real talent exists in the quality of his heroic [...]

Are you a new media artist or brand that’s also looking for your pages to show up at the top of search result pages? Duh. Chances are that if you’re the former, you’re also the latter. After all, showing up early and often in search engine results is an indication of popularity. Remember the classic thought experiment: if [...]

Just five months ago, Facebook introduced to the world the timeline—you know, that feature on profiles with the cover photo and a chronological list of posts, photos and other significant events in your life that looks like a virtual scrapbook. Very soon, all 845 million users will convert to the timeline scheme and you’ll get [...]