In just over 4 hours, Facebook will allow users and Page admins to choose unique usernames! What this means, like on many other social media sites, is that users can obtain much more desirable, convenient, easy-to-remember URLs. Gone are the days of http://facebook.com/people/Chad_Brunswick/92219538. Hello http://facebook.com/chadwick! (Or whatever.)
At 12:01 a.m. tonight, ...
When hundreds of spam comments flood your blog everyday, that's the kind of discouragement that will keep you, the author, from returning, let alone posting, very often. What's worse is when spambots simultaneously attack your wiki site as well.
Losing the will to continually sift through all the spam, I've neglected ...
From the historic outcry over the News Feed rollout, or the debacle that was Beacon, any time Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Facebook Blog, there's a 50/50 chance it's because people in Facebookland are unhappy.
Most recently, Zuckerberg responded to controversy surrounding a change in Facebook's ...
Any constant Twitter user knows the value of a URL shortener, because some of the most fascinating links don't conform to the 140-character restriction of many micro-blogging services. But some of the best URL shorteners are overshadowed by the titan, TinyURL.
Below I've compiled a list of the nine most popular ...
With Facebook nipping at the heels of MySpace for U.S. web traffic, what's MySpace's solution? Kick out 90,000 registered users!
Fortunately, according to CNN, those 90,000 banned users were also convicted sex offenders. This revelation is thanks to the Connecticut attorney general, who subpoenaed MySpace's user files to check for ...
Intuit, the company behind TurboTax software, has removed a tax filing fee, after customers protested online.
Customers flocked to Amazon to penalize the product with one-star ratings, responding to a price hike and a contentious $10-per-tax-return fee. It looks like the price has fallen $5, and according to a press release, ...
Social media inherently gives power to the community, and new social structures like Facebook and Twitter are revolutionizing the way people fight against the injustices of their world.
But in the last couple weeks, the biggest groundswells have come out of a much older social media system: product reviews.
Search "Grand Theft ...
On the same day Google announced their virtual world, Lively, would shut down at the end of the year, they unveiled their latest search engine technology - SearchWiki. Not a fully public, editable wiki in the sense of Wikipedia, the Google Blog reports that SearchWiki is "a way for you ...
The Facebook Blog reports one of the fruits of their most recent "Hackathon" (an all-night coding extravaganza) is a cool visualization system that displays all the interactions between users on Facebook. Check out their nifty demo video to see what "Palatir" is all about.
Jake and Amir, my favorite online comedy duo, produced a video called "Twitter," giving me the perfect excuse to share their unique brand of humor on this blog.
Read Amir's Twitter page here: "jakeandamir"
In case you're unfamiliar with Twitter, it's not "an online place that you keep your secrets." In fact, ...
