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What Would Life be Like Without Social Networking?
Someone asked me this earlier on Twitter. You would think it would be simple one to answer. After all, social networking is still in its infancy, right? Wrong! Social networks have been around since before the Internet was actually – well – the Internet. Stop thinking that these words only encompass sites such as Facebook [...]
Crazy Lawsuits Should be Outlawed
We’ve heard stories of completely ridiculous lawsuits in the past. Do you remember the McDonald’s coffee suit? What about the case of a burglar breaking into a lady’s home, hurting himself and then successfully suing the homeowner? There are thousands of cases on the books, and they are often won in a court of law [...]
MySpace is Totally For Sale
We’ve thought for a while now that News Corp has given up on MySpace. We all speculated that the company would go up for sale when the big layoffs hit last month. Even though they aren’t advertising it, the website is most definitely for sale. News Corp COO Chase Carey told a reporter over at [...]
Top Social Media News
The turn of the year brought some big news in social media along with some seriously lame memes. Facebook has effectively killed MySpace. In the last month, we have also seen the emergence of lawsuits based on the use of social media, and brands using social media to leverage consumers using contests for a more [...]
MySpace Cuts Nearly Half of Workers
In a move that (sadly) surprised no one, MySpace announced that they were laying off 47% of their workforce today. These people include those who pulled double duty at times, helping to re-launch the social site that no one ever remembers to visit. Employees are angry – and rightly so, judging by an email sent [...]
Are You Still Using MySpace?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Seb asked me in chat recently if I actually use MySpace. I have an account there, yes. I actually even receive tens of visitors there each month. I admit that I really don’t even USE the site. Do you? From all [...]
MySpace and Facebook: A Connection Made in Heaven?
Speculation mounted last night about today’s “big” joint Facebook and MySpace announcement. Sadly, the news was almost a let-down today during the actual event. We already knew that Facebook Connect was coming to MySpace. Finding out for sure was pretty anti-climatic. We’re all sitting here scratching our heads, wondering exactly why we are supposed to [...]
Why is MySpace Meeting up with Facebook?
Earlier today, an invitation went out to the press to attend a (gasp!) GoToMeeting tomorrow with both MySpace and Facebook in attendance. Unfortunately, I doubt this means that we’ll see some major alliance between the two sites. I doubt that MySpace is going to close up shop or anything of that nature. Rumors are flying, [...]
TweetDeck Helps You Manage Your Social Stream
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Matthew has created a screencast to walk you through setup of the free TweetDeck application. TweetDeck runs off of Adobe Air, and is an excellent program to help you manage your social stream. You can add your Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, FourSquare, [...]
MySpace Introduces New Profile Pages
Ahhhh, MySpace. You remember that place, right? Way back when, we all thought it was pretty cool. If you remember your login credentials for the site, you should check out what they’ve been doing with profiles. It’s actually, well, pretty cool. The new layout is slick, even if I don’t much like to have to [...]
Facebook Introduces Panic Button App
Today, Facebook announced that they will allow a so-called “panic button” application on their website. The app is aimed at young people and teens who need to report instances of unwanted sexual advances, cyberbullying and threats of any type. Cases of abuse will be reported to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (Ceop) [...]
Facebook and MySpace are Giving Away Your Information to Advertisers
Tsk, tsk. Did we honestly not see this coming? The Wall Street Journal has uncovered proof that both sites – along with several other popular social networking venues – have been giving away a hell of a lot of information about you to both Yahoo and Google… despite promising that they do not. Both Google’s [...]
Social Media Questions and Answers
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed ‘Social Media’ is the phrase of the day. Many of us were doing things socially online long before the term was even coined. No one can seem to decide what, exactly, social media really IS, anyway. Craig sent a series of [...]
Fact or Context: The Ocean That is the Internet
I read an excellent article a few moments ago. Julien Genestoux talks about how the Internet is a vast, never-evaporating ocean. All of the content that is constantly pouring into that ocean are raindrops. In the article, he states that “When you’re a search engine, you obviously have an exhaustivity requirement. You can’t really skip [...]
MySpace Tom is Not Your Friend
Back in the “old days”, MySpace cofounder Tom Anderson was the first friend that anyone had when joining MySpace. As the site underwent many changes over the past few years, Tom’s role has continued to decrease. Nine months ago, much of the founding team were released from their positions. Tom, however, was kept on the [...]
