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, ...
I was doing research for work, and compiled some interesting numbers regarding Facebook:
Facebook is the fifth most popular website in the U.S. (behind Google, Yahoo, MySpace, then YouTube) and also fifth globally (behind Yahoo, Google, YouTube, then Windows Live).¹
Currently there are 32 million regsistered users in the U.S.,² a number which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it.
Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...
Today The Facebook Blog announced their new user interface will be launched soon, and in the mean time, you can try it out by going to www.new.facebook.com.
Read on for my detailed look at the new Facebook, or, for those of you who will simply check it out yourselves, let me ...
CNN reports the story of a college student, whose Facebook profile was used as evidence against him in court:
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the ...
