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As we recentlyreported, professional social networkViadeois considering floating on a stock market. Who actually uses it though? While the tech press tends to concentrate on LinkedIn, its rival has a substantial audience in a number of regions, as this infographic shows. To put this in some context, LinkedIn boasts over90 million membersworldwide, including 20 million in Europe. While Viadeo is sitting at just over a third of the total users if we go by LinkedIn’s figures, I’m told that Viadeo stands by its claim of being number one in Europe and questions LinkedIn’s numbers....

SimplyMeasured, a social media measurement company collected a massive amount of Twitter information around entrepreneurJasonCalacanis’s two-day Launch startup conference hosted by that took place this week in San Francisco. A total of54tech companies pitch their new startups in front of a panel of rather discerning judges. UsingRowFeeder,SimplyMeasuredtracked the over 13,000 Twitter conversations containing the official conference hashtag, #L11, and all mentions of @launch. Here are the results. Calling all Scaleup founders!...

Who writes better essays: College students or GPT-3? A panel of professors gave the model mixed grades Assessing the assessment EduRef stressed that the experiment was only an exploratory study. GPT-3’s outputs were lightly edited for length and repetition, although its content, factual information, and grammar were left untouched. In addition, the AI produced two papers for the history, research, and law assignments. Larson then picked which ones to use:...

We tech reporters like to complain about tech a lot. Whether it’s theinvasion of our privacy,worrisome use of AI, or thedeath of the headphone jack, we can be a fussy bunch. But as I emptied out boxes of old tech gear to start the new year fresh, I couldn’t help but be grateful for one of the best decisions the tech industry has made in the past few years: adopting USB-C....

The announcement yesterday that Twitter is tolaunch its own photo sharing servicesent shockwaves through the developer community. Aside from Photobucket, whichwon the gigto host images shared Twitter’s offering, the remainder of the image sharing services are suddenly left fearing for their futures. So, who’s got the most to lose? In order to get some up-to-date figures, monitoring and analysis companySysomoslooked at all the tweets from Monday 30 May 2011 to look at the current state of the Twitter image sharing market....