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The Internet: A Woman’s Guide To Bitching
May 30th
We all know that the internet was created by Al Gore as the world’s repository of porn and cute animal pictures, but I don’t think anybody saw the internet evolving into what it is today – a tech-wonderland where you can find anything, everything, and everyone. The applications of the internet seem to be endless as new technology continues to find new uses for it to be applied in everyday life, and yet I fear that many of the most applicable and powerful uses of the internet have yet to be fully exploited.
Ashton Kutcher – Ascent To ‘Twitter’ Stardom – 1 Million And Rising
Apr 18th
While the rest trudge through Following and being Followed on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher rolled out a full-on Tweet assault and became the first Twitterer ever to rack up 1 million Followers.
Kutcher attained his coveted Twitter status just a few thousand Followers ahead of runner-up @CNNBrk who [even with Larry King] couldn’t rally the Twitter world to a million in time.
Did Kutcher (known as @aplusk on Twitter) pull off a rerun of President Obama’s grassroots campaign?
iPhone Is The Killer Mobile Social Networking Device
Apr 6th
The iPhone is the killer social networking device when mobile. The ability to easily and comfortably access email as well as a variety of popular social networking sites using native iPhone applications places the device squarely in the center of the social media triangle. While there are plenty of additional uses for the device, it almost seems pointless – why bother owning an iPhone if your usage goal does not involve some form of social networking?
Government Must Embrace Social Networking, Not Ban It
Mar 21st
President Barack Obama was the first candidate to make extensive use of social networking tools during his campaign for the presidency. His campaign used these tools so the average user benefitted from visiting Obama’s various web sites and social networking profiles. With Obama at the helm of the United States, one would expect the President to force a bureaucratic culture change, ushering in a new era of governmental use of social networking and embracing the web. Unfortunately, the government has both embraced and banned social networking in the same breath.
Facebook And Twitter Harming Our Brains?
Feb 28th
Not quite your brain on crack cocaine, but it may come close. As David Derbyshire’s coverage points out on research by neuroscientist [and Baroness] Susan Greenfield — Ms. Greenfield would have you believe social networking is “infantilizing” the human brain.
FriendFeed Launches New Search Features – The Tap Of User Data Flows
Feb 4th
They nailed it. FriendFeed just made available massive amounts of micro-blog information ready for mass consumption and — promiscuous correlation. No stone left unturned.
Recent upgrades on their advanced search now provide Google-istic operators that make sifting through millions of mini-articles a walk in the park — ultimately getting users closer to the data they’re really after.
Twitter, FriendFeed or Both?
Jan 14th
Twitter, the highly popular micro-blogging site, is decidedly not a niche service. It has general purpose usability with far reaching appeal. Twitter might as well be considered mainstream – Israel and Hamas have coordinated their propaganda campaigns using Twitter as a centerpiece for broadcasting their views to the world. Contrast that to FriendFeed, a social aggregation facility which has only truly found love from the technologically savvy early adopter crowd. But the question most people find themselves asking is this – should I use Twitter, Friendfeed or both? My time is valuable and both services compete for that time, so which service should I spend it on?
Twitter As Your Blog, Twitter As Your Newsfeed, Twitter This, And Twitter That
Jan 13th
Probably one of the coolest things to hit the web in recent years is the sensationally huge network — Twitter. Everyone from little old ladies to full fledged pop artists [aka Britney Spears] give up their status via Twitter. From the President of the United States to Israeli Defense Forces pounding Gaza — all are Tweet’ing like mad.
First on the scene in spring 2006 via a small side project out of San Francisco, Twitter brought simple yet effective real-time communications to the web in the form of shouts (also affectionately known as Tweets). From this small side project [as Twitter puts it] developed a full fledged real-time short messaging service that interfaces globally across a mix of networks and devices.
Social Network Mayhem
Jan 5th
Scenario: You spin up your browser and search for someone on the Internet. Some of you load up Google – others choose Yahoo – and yet some of you surf to social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn, Tagged, Reunion, Classmates and (catch my breath), and so on. Irregardless of where you search, what happens next is the same: You get slammed with a deluge of results and then find yourself sifting through a lot of irrelevant clutter.
A closer peek at this social network mayhem and we notice all sites try very hard to do one thing — keep you social. ‘Try‘ being the keyword. With the advent of AJAX and site design improvements now happening everywhere — quite justifiably — social networking has become an awkward gob of repetitive bells and whistles (some cool and others weak) that make one social site [not so] different from the other.
What we need–
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