Computer System Can Recognize Human Emotion

Scientists have created a computer system that attempts to recognize human emotions such as anger and impatience by analyzing the acoustics of one’s voice. Such a system would have obvious implications for perennially frustrating...

Google Doodle Readies Voters for Egypt Election

Google is highlighting the 2011 Egyptian elections with a doodle on its search homepage for Egypt. Each of the six letters that spell out “Google” perform an action...

Google Adds +1 Button to Image Search

Google‘s proliferation of the +1 button continued Wednesday as the company added the feature to image searches. The button, which was introduced in March as an answer to Facebook’s “Like,” is equivalent to...

Apple Sucks At Social

Displayed in the Dieter Rams exhibit at SF MOMA is a hand-held Braun television. Yes, an old-fashioned television with a handle on it that never saw the light of day because...

Social Travel: Rediscovering the Friendly Skies

We’ve heard endlessly how “social” will eventually disrupt and transform old, stodgy industries, perhaps even reinvent them for the better. The promise of this change, of course, is often tempered by the reality that,...

Zynga Builds Its CastleVille Walls, As Its Facebook Traffic Flattens And Falls

New Facebook game CastleVille is one of Zynga’s fastest-growing titles ever, as it announced a few days ago. That’s good news for the company, but maybe not good enough when you consider the trajectory of most of...

Promising Unlock For The iPhone 4S Discovered

Most folks spent their Thanksgiving weekend ensuring that every inch of their intestinal track was thoroughly covered in gravy. Others spent it trying to get just drunk enough that their relative’s worst habits were bearable. A...

Orange Releases 3 Budget Facebook Phones for Emerging Markets

Facebook is about to get a brand new bag with the release of three budget phones aimed at new smartphone users and developing communities. The phones were developed by Alcatel and will be released and supported exclusively...

Facebook Fights Flood of Violent and Pornographic Spam

Facebook is investigating violent and pornographic images spammers have planted in its network. Offensive content that has popped up in Facebook news feeds includes hardcore porn images, pictures of extreme violence, animal...

Google+ Circles Get a Boost With Katango

Google has acquired Katango, a startup that has developed advance people-sorting algorithms, in order to improve the quality of Google+ Circles. “Katango was founded a little over a year ago to develop social algorithms...

Google+ Pages Can Now Be Managed With Third-Party Apps

Google has launched a pilot program that will let owners of Google+ Pages manage their accounts via third-party apps such as HootSuite, Involver and Buddy Media. The program will grant six companies early access to the...

Facebook and Google Team Up to Fight the E-Parasite Act

Just when we thought the battle lines had been drawn on the Stop Online Piracy Act, tech giants Facebook, Google and Zynga have announced their opposition to the proposed bill. The companies joined...

Yahoo Revs Up Recipe and Shopping Search Features for the Holidays

Yahoo has introduced interactive search results for shopping, recipes and entertainment that will appear at the top of search result pages starting Tuesday evening.The new features integrate Yahoo.com content into the...

Google’s X Lab Gets the Taiwanese Treatment

Google’s secret laboratory, known as “Google X” get the animated treatment, care of our friends at NMA.tv. As you might expect, the Taiwanese news animators managed to get the basics of the original New York Times story,...

Tips For Onboarding Remote Workers

The Digital Careers Series is supported by Elance, the world’s leading site for online work. Check out Startup Cloud for tips on how to build a remote team. There might be an assumption that recruiting...

20 TV Shows With the Most Social Media Buzz This Week

ust by looking at the top television trends, you can tell awards season is upon us. The BET Hip Hop Awards and the Latin Grammys topped the cable and broadcast categories, respectively. The CMAs and MTV Europe Music...

YouTube Upgrades Its Android App

YouTube has just updated its Android app to version 2.3.4, and while the changes aren’t exactly groundbreaking, they do add-in some pretty useful new functionality. Regardless of if you’re...

10 Tips and Tricks for Better Google+ Brand Pages

1. Access Your Brand Page Once you've set up your brand page, you access it through your personal Google+ profile. On your home page below your name and avatar pic...