Webby News

In the wake of another celebrity social media meltdown this week, the question “where is his publicist?” has appeared from commenter…

Here are some recent stories on TechCrunch Gadgets: Motorola Droid 4 Review: This Keyboard Rocks, But That’s About It Review: The Playstation Vita, Sony’s Portable Powerhouse More Backpedaling: Netflix Brings Back the $7.99 DVD-Only Plan ProView Is Suing Apple Over The Rights To An iMac Clone Foxconn Increases Wages, Raises Pay By 16-25% For Chinese Workers

We’re back again with another roundup of the top Mashable comments of the week.
In this weekly segment, we showcase the week’s best…

How do you end up with millions of new sales overnight with low development and implementation costs? In the case of Chinese electronics companies Rock Chips and Box Chips the answer has been simple – hitch a ride on Android.

China’s economy is booming thanks to low cost assembly, the country’s key advantage when competing on the global playing field. Manufacturers deliver low cost laborers who are able to follow processes and procedures to a reasonable degree of accuracy at very reasonable rates, and thus gain an edge over Western manufacturers.

Last week, Forbes contributor Eric Jackson published a list on the 9 lessons that Jeremy Lin can teach you; number 2 on his list was “Seize the Opportunity”. Lin’s not the first, and he won’t be the last, but his meteoric rise has reminded us once again that anything is possible if you seize the opportunity.

In this article, we’ll expand on that and discuss how you can seize your opportunities.  It is, after all, easier said than done.

Google is in a lot of hot water over recent revelations about how it tracks user activity on Apple devices — particularly iPhones and iPad…

You are what you eat; You become what you believe; I am not my art. A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Psychology titled “Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Information” found that Facebook users are no different online than they are offline.
The study also declared a strong connection between someone’s real personality and their Facebook-related behavior. Social and personality processes, according to the study, accurately mirror non-virtual environments. It was published in the academic journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. Professor Samuel D. Gosling and his team looked at the big five personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism and found that self-reported personality traits are accurately reflected in online social networks such as Facebook. Extroverted users reported the most friends and the highest engagement while conscientious types had the least. Simply, extroverts engaged more than introverts.

read more