Facebook Likes, hires iPhone jailbreaker 'Geohot'

<div><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="103" src="http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/2553/geohotfacebooklike1.jpg" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" width="268" /></div><br/>He's jailbroken the iPhone and been sued by Sony over alleged hacks, and now George "Geohot" Hotz is grappling with the biggest challenge of his young career: social networking. After about a week's worth of rumors surrounding his new employment arrangements, Facebook confirmed that it has indeed added the infamous young hacker to its payroll. No word on what Hotz will be doing at the site, but we expect big things, just so long as he doesn't come within 100 feet of a PS3.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/28/facebook-likes-hires-iphone-jailbreaker-geohot/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>

Facebook Likes, hires iPhone jailbreaker 'Geohot'

He's jailbroken the iPhone and been sued by Sony over alleged hacks, and now George "Geohot" Hotz is grappling with the bigges...

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Social sharing on The Daily dropping fast

<!--CONTENT START--><br/><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" class="aligncenter" height="167" src="http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/2084/thedailytweetsdeclining.jpg" style="border: 0px initial initial;" width="318" /></p><br/>The Nieman Journalism Lab reports that social sharing from iPad news app The Daily is falling precipitously, according to data from a firm called PostRank. Social sharing is when users share content on networks like Twitter or Facebook; the average number of pieces shared from The Daily on Twitter has fallen from over 200 to under 50 in just the past few months since its launch.<br/><br/>There's two sides to this. First, these are obviously not actual readership numbers, and just because readers aren't sharing many articles doesn't mean they're not being read. It's also important to remember that The Daily subscriptions run weekly or yearly, so a certain amount of its readers have already paid for a year of content.<br/><br/>However, given that this is one metric of engagement with the fledgling virtual publication, it's probably not a good sign. As Nieman's Joshua Benton says, this follows anecdotal evidence we've heard that the app has been declining despite an early spike in interest. If subscriptions and downloads correlate with these social sharing numbers, The Daily may be in trouble already.

Social sharing on The Daily dropping fast

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports that social sharing from iPad news app The Daily is falling precipitously, according to data from a firm c...

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