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May 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Audience members were recently blown away by the famed Rasmussen brothers at Google’s annual I/O developer’s conference when they unveiled their newest full-scale project, Wave. Lars and Jens Rasmussen earned fame (and a small fortune) when they sold what we all now know as Google Maps to the firm in 2005,
and now they want to replace E-mail. No…
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May 26th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
President Obama has set a trend with his promises of “transparency” and real democracy in our federal government. It seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon.
Suddenly it is en vogue to demand total honesty and forthrightness from an entity, whether it be business or government. Take for instance a blog post by Brent Csutoras, which claims there has been…
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May 22nd, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Do you still read books? I mean not eBooks, but normal paper-books. Well, I do because to m nothing can substitute a good book in the evening before going to bed.
Today, you can love books the social media way (no wonder, huh?). Here are two excellent examples of web 2.0 communities for hardcore book lovers:…
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May 20th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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.…
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May 14th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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…
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May 13th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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…
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May 11th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Lisa Earle McLeod is quickly learning the ropes in the uncharted land of social networking. Cyber-reality, in essence, is not that different from real life in that many ways. That is, if you think like a junior in high school. There are still cliques. And kids are still too embarrassed to acknowledge the so much as the existence of parents.…
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May 7th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Moms have very solid online presence. There are mommy bloggers, mommy networks and mommy communities. But what about dads? Don’t they want to share ideas either?
Here are just a couple of examples of how dads meet online:
Odadeo is a newcomer in the social media world and already got very positive reviews from a number of reputable blogs.
The…
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May 6th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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…
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April 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
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.…
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