Here is a very interesting bunch of facts aboutprostitution in New York. What mostly struck me was how these women (must be guys there too but they aren’t mentioned) use social media and new technology to do their work. There is a whole list of facts at the original post you didn’t know about hookers but I only took out these three: So Craigslist is losing its sex-appeal with sex-workers? They must be devastated!...
We here at TNW have been big fans (and users) of social media dashboardHootSuitefor quite some time. The Canadian startup has done huge things over the past year, including raising $3 million in funding and acquisitions of the Twapper Keeper and TwitterBar tools. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company isintroducing another acquisitiontoday, of context provider What the Trend. What the Trendhas been a staple of the Twittersphere for quite some time, giving insight into what is causing trending topics to trend around the world....
The Vancouver basedHootsuitehas upgraded its security for its web application and iOS, Android and Blackberry platforms, adding application-wide SSL and secure profiles. The benefits of Hootsuite’s new security features also include account provisioning, which allows users to share access to profiles without sharing passwords, plus additional measures that prevent malware and spam. In order to make Hootsuite HTTPS-enabled, users must manually do so. Here’s how: A specific icon will show up in your web browser when you’ve enabled this, adding a lock to the adddress bar....
Social sharing tool HootSuitetoday announcedit had hit a new milestone, registering its 2 millionth signup just seven months after it had reachedone million usersin November 2010. Signups are likely to have been helped by the companies decision to adopt aFreemium model, crafting package tiers to provide an extensive range of tools to both consumers and businesses – keeping it free for 95% of its users. The company also has popular apps available on the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and iPad which post to a range of social networks....
HootSuite has had a slew of announcements over the past couple of weeks, and today they launched several new URL shorteners that allay concerns users have had over the use of the .ly suffix (which tacitly supports the Libyan governing regime). Owl.li and htl.li are 2 new options offered by HootSuite for URL shortening. Hailing from Liechtenstein, the new domains work the same way as the other HootSuite URL shorteners, Ow....
