To prevent disruptions and scale up its service while keeping costs down, Twitter has had to drastically change its core infrastructure, taking up open source tools while doing so. Check more from PCWorld.com
Unless you take special precautions, nothing you send by email is secure. That’s doubly true with Gmail, since Google uses the content of your messages to target advertising. Check out this great article from PCWorld.com
Teens are getting bored of Facebook. There’s Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Vine, Snapchat—it’s really too much to manage all of those networks and not fail out of high school. But Facebook needs teens to stick around, and stickers just aren’t cutting it. On Wednesday, the social behemoth gave them more options. Check out this article from TechHive.com
Today, Facebook dominates social media. The world’s largest social network boasts over 1 billion users, an impressive fraction of the 2.5 billion people who have Internet access worldwide. Google+ has also breached the 1 billion mark, but in terms of logins per day is quite far behind the champion. Check this article from MakeUseOf.com
If you do it right, you could go viral on Twitter. In fact, Twitter is one of the fastest ways you could go viral today. The key? Write compelling tweets that others will want to share. One retweet could reach hundreds or thousands of new people and each new person is another potential retweet. Imagine how quickly that could snowball. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com
In a matter of weeks, everyone on Facebook will be searchable by name. But you’ll still have ways to control who sees your content, as long as you can navigate Facebook’s web of privacy controls. Check out here from TechHive.com
Yahoo has been revamping its core offerings ever since Marissa Mayer took over, and usually targetting Google. The new My Yahoo as an iGoogle alternative is a great example of this. Now Yahoo is setting its eyes on a bigger prize: email. For its 16th birthday, Yahoo Mail got a whole new look across platforms, and a few new features too. Check more from this article on MakeUseOf.com