Facebook's Chief Technology Officer has announced his resignation from the company. Bret Taylor, who in the past also worked for Google, said that he would be leaving the company in order to pursue a new business venture with a friend.
Facebook has been ordered to pay $10 million to charity to settle a U.S. lawsuit over Sponsored Stories for using images of users without compensation or offering an opt out. Facebook has also acquired facial recognition software company Face.com.
You can no longer play “Bejeweled Blitz” on Google+. The popular game has been pulled from Google+ Games, PopCap confirmed. PopCap thanked its players and apologized, reminding users to use up their coins and keep playing – elsewhere.
Dissecting the shady link building tactics one site used offers further evidence that old link building tricks that worked for years are no longer a long-term strategy for top search rankings on Google. Also: some suggestions for recovery.
With keyword expansion, your goal is to target new keyword opportunities by discovering potentially untapped relevant and traffic/lead-driving search verticals – adding a mix of modifiers or stems with ideas or concepts to author linkable assets.
A winning digital strategy may loom even larger in influencing this year’s presidential campaign than it did in 2008. When it comes to searches, paid search marketing, and display advertising, President Obama is outpacing challenger Mitt Romney.
When optimizing a website, don't disregard the power of robots.txt. Learn how to properly implement robots.txt to avoid search ranking problems and damaging your business, as well as how to correctly disallow search engine crawling.
Happy Father's Day! Google’s tribute to dads in more than 70 countries – from Japan, to India, to the UK, and most of North America – for Father's Day 2012 comes in the form of an animated logo, in which Dad gets a special robotic delivery.
When it comes to user tracking around the web, Google and Facebook seem to be the biggest offenders – their properties combined make up the entire Top 5. But they aren't the only kids in town. Check out which 25 companies are tracking you most.
Social performance management platform Syncapse has announced their intention to acquire Clickable, bringing its ad technology and knowledge into their fold. The deal is reportedly worth $33 million and consists mainly of stock options.
Google increased its stranglehold on the U.S. search engine market, reaching a record high in May, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s share of the search engine market further erode for the ninth straight month. Bing’s share held steady.
This (relative) uniformity in mobile user experience would appear to be wonderful for search engines and developers alike. So what is responsive design? Learn the basics, as well as a few great tools for experimenting with responsive design.
Upon diving into SEO Effect's keyword research tool, two things are impressive straight out of the box: the research tools and the flexibility of the system. Here’s a taste of how the tool works and how it can help your SEO campaigns.
A new feature could help advertisers enhance their creative messaging on the social platform. Twitter has introduced an updated version of expanded tweets that can include additional content like video, images, and text within a tweet itself.
A long Directive requires brands to get "consent" before tracking consumers. If your UK site isn't compliant yet, you've probably got a breathing space (unless your traffic levels are high and the ICO's noticed you). Here are five ways to comply.
The Ads Integrity Alliance aims to stop malware and counterfeit goods ads, among other threats in advertising, by developing policy and sharing information amongst some of the biggest players in online advertising, including Google and Facebook.
Bing and Yelp are teaming up to provide more local information. Bing's U.S. users will see significantly more Yelp data included directly on Bing search results pages in the center column – including images, reviews, star ratings, and more.
Facebook will soon launch a service that allows marketers to retarget users and bid in real-time based on their recent browsing activity. Facebook Exchange pricing will be based on a CPM basis, with ad spots sold via third-party partners
A new comScore report identifies frameworks marketers can use to quantify social marketing efforts and evaluate outcomes. Key takeaways from their research demonstrate the real-world purchasing effect of exposure to Facebook Page media.
Are your site tasks simple? Is your content easy to read? Are your forms easy to work with? Does your design guide visitors to a goal? Learn how to answer these and many more questions as you journey beyond traditional SEO to site optimization.
LOS ANGELES ¿ Today Microsoft will be hosting a super-secret product announcement at Milk Studios -- and Wired will be live-blogging the event in real-time. Stay tuned to this URL.
wants you to believe that you're driving a car, but in reality, it only wants you to press the gas pedal. There's no steering wheel with which to make mistakes or improve your skills. Playing the game pushes its systems forward, and not playing allows it to languish. It's no more complicated than that.
A simple timeline of the achievements of Alan Turing, the great mathematician, World War II hero, computer scientist and visionary.
Alan Turing achieved more in the space of a few decades than anyone could hope to achieve in a lifetime. Here, Wired breaks down some of the most significant contributions Turing made to modern science.
Launching in Hollywood ¿ as opposed to Silicon Valley or Redmond ¿ hints that Microsoft might be working closely with the entertainment industry on its rumored tablet.
Microsoft may be more than two years late to the tablet fight. But Windows and Office still spew so many billions every year that the world's third-largest company can still afford not to be great.
One of the top supervisors over Venezuela's drone program is an engineer who helped build ballistic missiles for Iran. He's also part of a mystery involving drones shipped from Iran to Venezuela while hidden in secret cargo containing possibly more military hardware than just drones.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't happy with Nvidia. And he wants you to know it. Late last week, at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it "the single worst company" the Linux developer community has ever dealt with, complaining that the chipmaker doesn't do as much as it could to ensure that its hardware plays nicely with his open source operating system. He even turned to the camera filming the event, flipped the company the proverbial bird, and dropped the proverbial F bomb.
The 80th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans happened in France this past weekend, and with it came the introduction of new technology, a new top-tier competitor and one radical concept that's been heralded as the future of Le Mans Prototype racing.
Physicists have developed a theory to help explain the weird collective behavior that arises when many individual atoms work as one, leading to bizarre materials such as superfluids, Bose-Einsten condensates, and neutron star matter.
The cloud is more green than traditional on-premises setups, according to a recent Carbon Disclosure Project survey. But that survey did not sit well with Cloudline readers in March. Now Google is championing the Carbon Disclosure Project, and touting the energy efficiency of the cloud as well as the green cred of Google Apps.
Microsoft surprised the tech world when it announced an event with only four days notice. The invitation, like the reason for the event, was laced with mystery and produced more questions that answers.
Last Friday, XOXO, an art and technology conference scheduled to take place in Portland, Oregon, in September, became the highest-funded project of its type in Kickstarter history. Over the course of the campaign, organizers raised a whopping $175,000. XOXO¿s 400 available tickets ¿ procured by funding the project at the $400 level ¿ sold out in only 50 hours. With speakers like Makerbot's Bre Pettis, the web comic creator R. Stevens, Star Wars Uncut co-creator Jamie Wilkinson, and the founders of tech-savvy creative communities like Etsy, Metafilter, and Kickstarter¿all that fall in the realm of what the conference founders call "disruptive creativity" ¿ it¿s no wonder. The organizers pulled together a host of makers working at that sweet spot where art and technology meet and then invited the public to join in.
The center of the US drone war has shifted to Yemen, where 23 American strikes have killed as estimated 155 people so far this year. But you wouldn't know about it -- or about the cruise missile attacks, or about the US commando teams in Yemen -- by reading the report the White House sent to Congress about US military activities around the globe.
Aerospace has long been an American bulwark. In most years Boeing is the nation¿s leading exporter. America has more airports, builds more airplanes, trains more pilots, and arranges more of its economy around aviation than any other country, by far. China would very much like a piece of this¿to have Boeings, NASAs, Cessnas, and fully fledged GPS systems of its own.
Mozilla is hard at work on Firefox for the iPad, but don't expect this to be your father's Firefox. Instead the company is hoping to "reinvent the browser for a new form factor."
Mark Andrews has worked in animation and live-action as a storyboard artist, story supervisor, writer, and even as a voice actor, including , he makes his debut as a feature film director.
Ten questions with Clay Shirky, the startup guru, NYU professor and author, touching on the rise of GitHub, Facebook's weak spot, the regression of online politics, his mistaken trust in large tech companies, and his all-time favorite email service.
A commercial satellite has spotted a mysterious unmanned aerial vehicle parked at Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Works facility. Aviation geeks are scrambling to figure out what the drone might be.
The new book "Coming of Age on Zoloft" explores the running debate about overmedication for depression and what it means to come of age -- and of identity -- while on these meds. Neuron Culture blogger David Dobbs interviews the author, Katherine Sharpe.
When some guy takes a self portrait every day for 8 years, Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain sees a calculative opportunity. See how he found out the guy's hair growth rate.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced hundreds of possible new top-level domain names last week, which is great because clearly we need more unqualified successes along the lines of .mobi, .xxx and .travel. Here's a look at some of the TLDs applied for, along with my thoughts.
Arvind Narayanan isn't a household name yet in computer science, but there's a chance he learned your name when he reverse-engineered a Netflix contest to show how easy it is to de-anonymize anonymous data. And as we march further into the age of big data, you're likely going to be hearing more from our choice for the World's Most Wired computer scientist.
Before Danica Patrick and GoDaddy, there was Elizabeth Feinler and the NIC. From 1972 to 1989, Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler ran the Network Information Center at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California -- the place that oversaw the use of internet addresses before the arrival of commercial outfits like GoDaddy and Network Solutions. If you wanted a domain name, you came to Jake.
She rides into history aboard the shuttle , opening up new vistas to a young generation.
Henry Hargeaves, a Brooklyn-based New Zealander, recently shocked audiences with his photos of deep-fried gadgets like the iPod, Mac Book, Gameboy and iPad. But all is not quite as it seems.
If there's one thing fans of exhibit, which runs June 23 and 24 in Los Angeles.
The US military has dozens of different types of drones in its arsenal. Each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a single robot. There's no system that controls multiple drones at once. One Pentagon office thinks that's an archaic way of doing business. Inside the Pentagon's Acquisition, Technology and Logistics directorate, a team is working on ways to operate different types of drones with a single controller -- which it likens to an App Store.
A massive liquid-cooled supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has received the bragging rights that come with being the world's most powerful calculating machine.
The first GeekDad Day ever has come and gone. According to our tally, over 180,000 people in all 50 states and 22 countries around the world took our challenge to step beyond the greeting cards and cheap ties, and turn Father's Day into a celebration of modern parenthood.