New York area hookers have slowly stopped using Craigslist and instead use Facebook to attract potential business per a recent Columbia University study. Sudhir Venkatesh of Columbia published the results of the study involving 290 sex workers in the February issue of Wired Magazine. Venkatesh...
The internet is a visual medium. Our eyes are the ones that do the “traveling” when visiting a web site. Adding photos to web site is one of the more effective ways of attracting attention, giving emphasis to content, and illustrating important points. But if you think that posting photos is merely...
What was once considered a trend has become a way of life - and now the way we do business." Thus starts an infographic about The State of Social Media in 2012. For better or worse, we couldn't agree more. Everyone and their grandmothers (well, not quite;) are hooked to their gadgets, connected...
People of the past were quite smart, despite not having access to the Internet or modern technology. Case in point: the Antikythera Mechanism.... proof that gadgets have existed for thousands of years. In fact, you could even call it a "computer" because it operated as a complex mechanical...
Can you believe that in 2008 only 26% of American adults used the Internet? That is shockingly low when compared to today, as now 76% of Americans are online, with 47% of them using at least one social network; that alone is double of the stats in just a five year span. Social Media has given many...
Newsweek, one of the longest running internationally acclaimed magazines, will offer its final print edition of its 79 year history on December 31, 2012. The announcement was delivered during a meeting on Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. EST. Tina Brown, editor-in-chief at Newseek and...
At Brainz we love science and we love our namesake, the human brain, even more. That's why we were thrilled to find this graphic (via AllFacebook.com) exploring the ways Facebook and social media are changing us from the inside out. Image source: www.bestmastersinpsychology.com This really...
In the electronic jungle of more than 675,000 applications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and other mobile devices, it’s hard to find the best of them. Especially when the best things in life are free. Finding free applications offered by third parties which meet or surpass security expectations and...
Thanks to our friends at Geeks Are Sexy we discovered this cool article highlighting ten of the up and coming, world-shaping geeks we should know about. And you just know it deep down in your soul: the geeks have inherited the earth (Google, Facebook, cyber-warfare, etc.) To be honest, I only...
On December 12, 2012, the world's largest social network (again) changed its privacy policy controls via a massive overhaul to Facebook. The changes include new privacy tools allowing users of the site to select which of your friends and other subscribers can view personal info, updates, and...
