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Matthew Rothenberg, the man who most believed ran Flickr for Yahoo!, announced his departure in a Tweet today. He was there when before Yahoo! bought it and he was the last leader in the company to remain. While Yahoo! said in a press release that it was a “personal decision,” there is speculation that Rothenberg and others are leaving Yahoo! properties because of the future of the company. With so many services entering into the realm of their “sunset” at Yahoo!, who could blame them? Why Facebook Should Buy Them Clearly, Flickr has its flaws. Facebook has its limitations. Adding Flickr into the…

Straight outta the ‘Things You Probably Don’t Care To Know’ department comes Mark Zuckerberg’s new dog, Beast. Now, you might think this isn’t Techi material, but let’s get one thing crystal clear, here: this dog is immeasurably adorable, and if there is one axiom of the universe, it’s that cute things run the internet. That all eight-week-old Pulis (a particular breed of sheepdog) are more or less precisely this cute is completely besides the point, here. I guess Zuck isn’t just a hoodie-clad anti-privacy golem after all. He has a heart – or at least a wise PR team. Obviously, you want to smother…

Sunday, Facebook rolled out a change in the functionality of the Facebook “Like” button on websites across the Internet, essentially giving it the same basic functionality as the “Share” button. The only difference is that pushing the Like button doesn’t open up a new window or give you any way to edit what you’re posting to your wall. It just posts it. All of it. One click and the details are posted on your wall as well as into the streams of your friends. You cannot edit the message. Whatever the website you’re Liking has in their meta tags, that’s the message you’re posting. The end result is similar…

Talk about gratitude. According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, a twentysomething father has named his newborn daughter ‘Facebook’ to pay homage to the role Facebook (like, real Facebook) played in the recent Egyptian revolution.  No, really. This is a thing. According to TechCrunch, the translation is as follows: A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl “Facebook” Jamal Ibrahim (his name.) The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the…

Drawing comparisons between Facebook and the United States is easy. Both are influential in their world. Both have leaders that are loved and hated simultaneously. Both have both the ability to generate tremendous amounts of money while skeptics still point to their eventual economic collapse. It’s not much of a stretch. This graphic by our friends at Soshable looks at several of the key comparisons between the two super-powers. Do they match up well? You be the judge. Compare the directions they’re heading. The US has its hands in several different pots right now around the world while Facebook…

Gemalto has released the first SIM card with built-in Facebook functionality – meaning pretty soon, every GSM handset, regardless of its base functionality, will have the ability to connect one to Facebook. Said a spokesperson for the social network: We worked closely with Gemalto on their Facebook for SIM product and believe it will be another easy and affordable way for people to stay connected through Facebook on the mobile phone of their choice. Facebook for SIM creatively combines technologies from some of our existing mobile solutions that especially are attractive for people with…

If you want to hear the bright side of a company, you ask the CEO. If you want to hear the challenges, you ask the COO (unless the company is failing, in which case you ask the CFO). If you want to hear the truth, you talk to the CTO. That’s exactly what the BBC did last week when they asked their customary three questions of Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor. His reply was not only telling, but very likely a major revelation about where Facebook (and more importantly, people developing on the Facebook platform) is going in the very near future. What’s the Next Big Tech Thing in Your Industry?…

Those of you who have ever found yourself wishing you could merge the simplicity of a social networking tool like Facebook with the needs of business now have one more option with Teamlab, a robust and impressive online collaboration and project management tool from Ascensio Systems. Similar in many ways to ubiquitous software Basecamp, Teamlab is a free, web-based system that allows you to manage projects and communicate with other employees using a simple, well-designed interface. The newest version of Teamlab adds a couple of main features, and is now broken down into 3 main parts: TM Community,…

Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it’s that we were probably never going to talk about popular rapper and pop culture curiosity T-Pain. Colour us all the most vibrant hues of wrong. Pouring his poetic mastery of the English language into Twitter’s loving arms, T-Pain has made the world privvy to his newest tattoo: the Facebook Like button. There’s not much to say about this, beyond a well-deserved, wide-eyed ‘wow’ of disbelief. “I think this ones pretty sweet,” claims T-Pain’s tweet, “unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o”. It’s a good bet you’re safe…

After failing miserably and discontinuing their attempt at “going social” last year, Netflix is giving it another run. This time, they’re getting help from a company that has experience in social media. Their integration will be with Facebook. You may have heard of them. Wednesday, Netflix announced what they described as “an extensive Facebook integration” in a shareholders’ letter that accompanied their quarterly earnings report. While integration with Facebook is becoming more and more common, this particular move is striking because they are planning to change much of the way…