Visit the MySpace homepage of any teenager in or with access to, western culture, and you will surely find it as “decorated” as said teenager’s own bedroom. As much as Facebook tries to tout itself as the next big thing, it appears MySpace is hanging in there for the long haul.… Read more
To lackluster fanfare, facebook users were given the option to claim a new vanity URL for their profiles at 12:01 a.m. EDT. Rumors had been circulating for weeks about the idea of Facebook allowing celebrities, organizations, and bands to select special vanity URLs to replace the random set of numbers that had… Read more
You may not know what the kids are up to these days, but you can probably find their grandparents surfing the web or chatting it up with someone on MySpace. That’s right, Granny’s getting techno-savvy. From cell phones to the Internet, enterprising entrepreneurs have hooked a big one in the “making… Read more
Popular social-bookmarking site Digg announced this week that there would be a new ad system introduced soon. Up until now users have continuously blocked ads on Digg’s pages or simply ignored them, with the end result being a consistent loss to Digg’s coffers. Now they’ve got a new plan; they’re going… Read more
In what has basically become a bizarre, corporate-sized version of, “He said, he said”, Erick Schonfeld of techcrunch.com has opened a big yucky can of worms. His February 20, 2009, report that CBS subsidiary Last.fm divulged privatized, detailed user preference information has been incendiary, to say the least. The commentary on… Read more
When it comes to football / soccer, fans are what make it one of the most dangerous games to witness. They can be crazy and obsessed. I for one prefer not to visit football games despite the fact I find then fun.
The Internet, however, is the safe place for fans… Read more
Audience members were recently blown away by the famed Rasmussen brothers at Google’s annual I/O developer’s conference when they unveiled their newest full-scale project, Wave. Lars and Jens Rasmussen earned fame (and a small fortune) when they sold what we all now know as Google Maps to the firm in 2005,… Read more
President Obama has set a trend with his promises of “transparency” and real democracy in our federal government. It seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Suddenly it is en vogue to demand total honesty and forthrightness from an entity, whether it be business or government. Take for instance a blog… Read more
Do you still read books? I mean not eBooks, but normal paper-books. Well, I do because to m nothing can substitute a good book in the evening before going to bed.
Today, you can love books the social media way (no wonder, huh?). Here are two excellent examples of web 2.0 communities for hardcore book lovers:
The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks,… Read more
