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August 31st, 2009 by Ann Smarty
How many places are you trying to keep up with? Just for once sit down and try to count. I don’t remember doing that for ages, the only obvious answer is “Too many”. Therefore I was actually great to come across these two apps visualizing web life in the form of mice-looking charts:…
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August 24th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
It has always been quite a shaky ground verifying your online identity and proving you look exactly like you want people believe you do. It is so easy to find a less popular celebrity photo, save it at your computer and then upload each time you register a new social media profile.…
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August 21st, 2009 by Ann Smarty
In 2007 a quartet of former Googlers took an idea and ran with it. The idea, to bring social content and news to a centralized aggregation location, did not run far. Once touted to be the next big thing in social networking, FriendFeed apparently did not have much to offer in order to satisfy the fickle tastes of tech-savvy consumers.…
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August 10th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
How could anyone see the media insanity disguised as “coverage” of Michael Jackson’s life and death (Every. Single. Minute. Of. His. Life.) and wonder how the death of a celebrity, albeit one of the most popular celebrities in recent memory, preempt stories of freedom protests in Iran? More currently, is anyone aware there is a calculated program of eradication of…
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July 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Cracked has published a funny “research” trying to determine which site has the stupidest commenters on the web which brought me to constantly discussed question:
“Are most people idling at web 2.0 sites stupid?”
Now, I do love social media and people who take time to share the story or opinion, but let’s face it there’s plenty of profound stupidity…
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July 22nd, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Whether you talk, text, chat, sms, tweet, post, call, page, beep-beep…whatever your choice method of communication, someone you know is going to do it another way. Then what do you do? When you are a texter, and your mom is a talker, and your suddenly tech-savvy grandma is Skyping, it becomes a mind-blowing blur of electronics and gizmos and gadgets.…
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July 20th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Social Media took some major hits to its collective credibility over the last week as industry giants Digg, Twitter and Facebook all suffered their own separate scandals. At the forefront of public backlash was the blogosphere, with each company’s
own users chief amongst plaintiffs.…
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July 20th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
If you are an active Digg user discovering and submitting several stories a day, you must be struggling to keep track of all of them. Luckily, there’s a handy web-based tool that will allow you to make sure you know which stories shared by you are receiving some traction.…
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July 19th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
You have read it here more than once: whatever you put on the Internet could potentially be seen by the world. Apparently, the wife of the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service doesn’t realize this. Rather, she didn’t when she posted pictures of her very important husband, a la James Bond, on Facebook. Maybe Sir John Sawers is taking his…
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July 11th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Twitter’s banking an awful lot on the assumed success of their search engine, largely powered by the millions of people who
tweet. A large part of that mechanism is the Trending Topics list, and it’s failing. In fact, it’s possibly becoming more harm than good.…
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