At 6:32 pm on July 21st, Facebook released the highly awaited Facebook redesign. As written on the official Facebook profile previews page, the goal of the effort is to create, “a redesigned profile aimed at making things simpler, cleaner, and more relevant, while still giving you control over your own ...
A member of the "Facebook Phishing Scam Awareness" group on Facebook posted the most recent in a spat of phishing scams on the social network.
Unlike previous scams, which have been posted on Facebook users' walls, this user received an e-mail from a scam artist which attempted to send her to ...
The Olympics never fail to be an exciting time for not only the world of sports, but also for the world of marketing and branding. The Olympic athlete is viewed as patriotic, heroic and even superhuman, so when brands get the chance to be associated with these people, they take ...
CNN is running an interesting blog, about two guys driving across the country on biodiesel.
Producer Cody McCloy and web developer/biodiesel enthusiast Brian Hardy will spend the next two weeks driving from San Francisco, CA to Atlanta, GA in a 30-year-old diesel vehicle to report on the convenience and effectiveness of biofuel in ...
Earlier today a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. (Read about it on CNN.) As soon as I heard, I went to Twitter Search to see what people were saying about it.
A massive number of tweets have been published about the earthquake, and I'm so late to look that even though ...
Ars Technica has an interesting look on the current state of social media use in Congress, and how new policies put many Congress members in violation of Senate rules.
Ars Technica writes:
A political spat erupted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month over rules governing how members of Congress may use the ...
Cuil, a new search engine created by many former Google employees, recently went live. Cuil (pronounced like "cool") is a search engine that differs from Google in two very important ways. First, page ranking is not determined by popularity, but instead by content analysis. (Google's algorithm relies on how often other ...
Here are a few quoted lines from an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times:
I can see the appeal of a virtual community. I’ve joined three or four of these groups,
... [But]
One effect of so much social networking — so many overlapping communities of interlinked individuals — is that the ...
This Tuesday, Myspace released initiatives with Flixster and Eventful which will allow Myspace users to register and sign into the sites through their Myspace ID. This movement is the first data availability move that we see Myspace taking towards open-social networking, which is the idea of vertically aligning multiple social ...
WordPress, the free software that powers this blog (and many others), has released a free iPhone application that allows for mobile blog posting. WordPress could not have made it easier to make quick updates on the go, however this comes at a cost of losing some of the more advanced ...
