Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the 2010 Internet Dating Conference to be held in Miami, Florida from January 27th-29th. The iDate 2010 conference is the largest gathering of internet dating service providers, social networking executives, mobile telecommunications executives, media executives, vendors and other leaders in the social media industry. Exhibitors will also be on hand to showcase the latest in online dating technology. Continue Reading…
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At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, the VP of Google announced that a new Google Labs experiment will be starting soon. The latest experiment will help searches find information from their social network contacts with every Google search.
The project will be launching in the next few weeks. In order to use the service effectively, you have to have a Google account and complete a Google profile that will require you to fill in information about the social networks on which you are active. The search results you request through the website will also then bring up any information relevant to your search as well as information related to content from your social network circle of friends.
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Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year. Continue Reading…
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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 been used since the site’s inception. The consensus was that even if Facebook made vanity URLs available to the general public, that the service would come at a cost as part of the drive to monetize the site. Roughly a week ago the word was put out that not only would these public figures and institutions be able to secure customized addresses, but so would everyone else- for free.
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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, and now they want to replace E-mail. No tool is more indispensable than E-mail; even in a world where social-networks are all-encompassing with their own proprietary “direct” or “private” messages, E-mail is still king. It’s also completely walled off from all the various social-networks as its own beast, a sort of underlying communications framework for the entirety of the Internet. Google wants to tear down that wall, and combine aspects of social-networks with the legacy E-mail we know today. Continue Reading…
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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 Twitter. Internet-witch-hunts take place to weed out suspected pedophiles and racists, but exactly who is doing the suspecting, or on what evidence, is entirely unclear. Finally, now that it’s all set in and well ingrained in pop-culture, we get to bear the fruits of our complacency; from just a little off-putting through worrying and straight to flat-out invasive, three major changes are taking place in the world of social-networking right now.
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