Back in Skype's early days, it was adding users so fast that it liked to boast that it was "the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history." Well, by at least one measure (registered users 9 months after launch), mobile video chat service Tango is outpacing Skype. Tango now has 17 million registered users across both Apple and Android devices, only 9 months after it launched. By comparison, Skype celebrated 9 million users on its first birthday back in 2004.

Today, [...]

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Twitter has added a pop-up message to profile pages when viewed by logged-out users.The message allows users to enter a username, email address and password to sign up right away. It even lets you auto-follow the account you're currently looking at and three similar accounts from the same interface. In the case of our The Next Web account in the example below, it's grouped in our @TNWapple Twitter channel as well as two relating to Twitter's own Tweetdeck service.While this may [...]

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Facebook is closing its App Directory, with users now expected to find applications solely through search, the company said in a blog post.Carl Sjogreen, the post's author, says that less than 0.5% of all app installations come from the App Directory, with search driving a "significant number."There's now a "Submit to Search" link in the Developer pane for apps. Facebook says that while it can take up to 72 hours to appear in search listings, there is no appro [...]

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It's the greatest growth in social media ever. Google+ has reached 10 million users! Just this past Saturday (July 9th), its numbers were at 7.3 million and if the invite button stays active, the prediction is it could reach 20 million users by this weekend. What do these numbers show us exactly? It shows people ...

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Twitter users were fascinated by the launch of another social network, Google+, while the declaration by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) of her candidacy in the 2012 presidential election was the topic of the most news links shared by bloggers, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of an alleged unidentified flying object over London, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of [...]

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Senate bill S.978 is authored by Senators Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Coons and John Cornyn. If signed into law, the bill would adjust the criminal copyright statutes. Meaning it would create copyright infringements in some forms of online linking, embedding and streaming a felony. If guilty, people could face up to 5 years in jail.


Read More: Tons of YouTube Users Uploading Videos In Protest of S.978