There is a growing trend that has social-networking users feeling more than a little paranoid these days. Over the last year, one minor incident after another has drawn attention to and educated us on the perils of personal indiscretion on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and services like SMS and… Read more
Freelance writers and journalists discover fairly early in their careers Wikipedia is generally great for the volume of information it provides, but somewhat lacking in quality and credibility. As with any other endeavor to which the general public can contribute, especially anonymously, Wikipedia is bound to have inaccuracies and exaggerations, to… Read more
Lisa Earle McLeod is quickly learning the ropes in the uncharted land of social networking. Cyber-reality, in essence, is not that different from real life in that many ways. That is, if you think like a junior in high school. There are still cliques. And kids are still too embarrassed to… Read more
Moms have very solid online presence. There are mommy bloggers, mommy networks and mommy communities. But what about dads? Don’t they want to share ideas either?
Here are just a couple of examples of how dads meet online:
Odadeo is a newcomer in the social media world and already got very… Read more
TechCrunch recently sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss the meteoric rise of the ubiquitous social-media hub. Along with teasing us with hints, topics touched on include where it’s been, where it’s going, old rumors and new truths. The surprisingly humble Rose opens up about previous failures as well… Read more
In a time when information has a valued half-life of hours instead of days, Facebook is lumbering forward with plans to release user-submitted data to third party developers; a move that will surely both anger and please its over 200 million of members.
Firefox addon called Xoopit offers a handy way to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail account. Just follow those simple steps:
You might think this is another crappy list-based website but in fact My Life List offers quite a new and unique concept: it allows members to create lists featuring their prominent events in life (either planned or those that already happened).
AllFaceBook has launched a new tool analyzing what pages are popular on Facebook. With it you will be able to see what pages are the hottest, which ones are fastest to grow and which ones are the least popular.
Call me naive or just stupid but I still feel sad and even irritated when I see some stories thumbed down or buried or desphunn or whatever… Don’t get me wrong, I love well-grounded critique. What I can’t stand is uncommented thumbs-down or down voting followed by look-how-clever-I-am-and-you-are-not type of comments.
