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September 17th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Are you familiar with RSS? Maybe you are but most people are not. Most RSS readers are complex tools, appealing only to early adopters. However, the “RSS reader for the masses” is already in existence. It is your Facebook News Feed.
What has been missing is the
ability to connect syndicated content to Facebook and make the connection personal.…
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September 15th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
As its name suggests JammerDirect.com is a social network that hopes to bring actors, artists, musicians, filmmakers, painters, dancers, record labels, studios and venues together all in one place with the intention of acting as a promotional platform for creative works.
Joining the site is free and members are able to post the usual array of blogs, videos, pictures whilst…
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September 8th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Brrwr.com is a site that’s hoping to grow by getting people to help their fellow man by letting them borrow the things they need. As with many recent social start-ups new users are confronted with a single question, in this case “I want to borrow…”, upon filling in the information the website will attempt to help the user find someone…
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August 31st, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
MTV has released a new dating game on Facebook helping the unsocial get more sociable. I Woo You is produced by the television network and Stone Creek Entertainment. It is a casual game in the vein of Farmville but more like a game show with MTV reality show tie-ins.
Players get to customize their own avatar and cloth them with…
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August 24th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Even the dead can hang on to their Twitter accounts in the afterlife. Social media hub, Twitter has finally set their policy for dealing with deceased user accounts.
When a loved one has passed away, kin of the user can reach out to the site’s administration and request that the account be either deleted completely or a permanent backup of…
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August 17th, 2010 by Ann Smarty
Facebook is by far the hottest social media topic discussed today but do you have any idea how it was created? What’s the history of Facebook? How it all started?
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The year is 2003, Myspace is king of all social media and Mark Zuckerberg is just an unknown student busy working away on a psychology degree at Harvard. However,…
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August 9th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Imagine having 500 million brains contemplating your questions of the day. How sweet would it be to gain knowledge with a few finger punches? Well now any Facebook user can know exactly what it feels like by using a new feature called Facebook Questions.
Similar to Yahoo! Answers where commentators can add their two cents to questions or advice sought…
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July 26th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Within the next week, Facebook will welcome it’s 500 millionth user. Only five months ago, the 400th million user signed up to the social media network but it is the latest milestone that will celebrate the users.
Facebook insiders have revealed a new plan to incorporate the people who are making the social media network more popular than any other.…
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July 14th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
Most of us have been through the stress of preparing for a job interview at one point or another in our lives. Polishing up the resume, shopping for just the right business suit, and brushing up on the best answer to the age old interview questions about your strengths and weaknesses is now out of style. It seems that all…
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July 12th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Amazon has been awarded a patent for a ‘social networking system’. Based on the description of the patent, Amazon is developing a network that is similar to the other systems popular today including the popular Facebook.
Amazon has previously owned a social networking site called PlanetAll which they bought in 1998.…
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