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June 29th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
There’s nothing wrong in making money – but who would have thought that you could make money from talking to your friends? Social networking is in essence talking to your online friends, sharing ideas and news with them, exchanging photos, etc – just like in real life but without meeting each other in person.…
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June 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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.…
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June 24th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Summer is the ideal time to review a site about travel deals, and we decided to bring to your attention the one that provides double benefit: it is social and it is money-saving.…
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June 19th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Social media may have begun with a strong preference toward the social aspect, but the other half of its namesake has shown to be prevalent in more recent times. Many used to see the various sites, applications and services of social media as toys, but its pervasive presence in the events ongoing in Iran at this very moment seem to…
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June 16th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Visit the MySpace homepage of any teenager in or with access to, western culture, and you will surely find it as “decorated” as said teenager’s own bedroom. As much as Facebook tries to tout itself as the next big thing, it appears MySpace is hanging in there for the long haul. Some naysayers protest MySpace is just about music, and…
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June 13th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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…
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June 10th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
You may not know what the kids are up to these days, but you can probably find their grandparents surfing the web or chatting it up with someone on MySpace. That’s right, Granny’s getting techno-savvy. From cell phones to the Internet, enterprising entrepreneurs have hooked a big one in the “making it easier on grandma” niche. Our elders who once…
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June 5th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Popular social-bookmarking site Digg announced this week that there would be a new ad system introduced soon. Up until now users have continuously blocked ads on Digg’s pages or simply ignored them, with the end result being a consistent loss to Digg’s coffers. Now they’ve got a new plan; they’re going to let the users themselves vote up, or vote…
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June 3rd, 2009 by Ann Smarty
In what has basically become a bizarre, corporate-sized version of, “He said, he said”, Erick Schonfeld of techcrunch.com has opened a big yucky can of worms. His February 20, 2009, report that CBS subsidiary Last.fm divulged privatized, detailed user preference information has been incendiary, to say the least. The commentary on his post, “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening…
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June 1st, 2009 by Ann Smarty
When it comes to football / soccer, fans are what make it one of the most dangerous games to witness. They can be crazy and obsessed. I for one prefer not to visit football games despite the fact I find then fun.
The Internet, however, is the safe place for fans from all over the world to meet and share…
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