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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, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users.… Read more
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… 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 say the least. Politics notwithstanding, President Obama’s Wikipedia entry… 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 as successes, and explains just what happened all those… 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.… Read more
The days when you could do whatever you wanted online and never be punished are over. Today you should be responsible for what you are doing online. The recent Facebook incident proves that.… Read more
Whopper Sacrifice application on Facebook (available via its microsite) offers a coupon for a free Whopper to a user who “de-friends” 10 of his connections.… Read more
