Archive for September, 2010
ThinkUp – new app for new ideas
The Social Network
The story began in fall 2003 when Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg came up with the idea of putting social college life online. Soon the social network developed into the biggest online community in history. But with the success came personal and legal complications. The subhead ”You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies” describes the conflict of this story fairly well.
New figures show that the majority of Facebook users that “like” brands to receive special offers and discounts. read more…
Young people think that the STD testing center is the most embarrassing place to check into on Foursquare. But now MTV and Foursquare join together and creates the GYT badge, Get Yourself Tested. This is in many ways a milestone for Foursquare since it’s the first time to create a cause related badge, this one to challange young people to get tested for STD more regularly.