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September 7th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
It is great fun to take a look at how now popular web 2.0 sites used to look like years ago, when they were just launched.
Now, let’s try to imagine how those sites will look 10 years from now:
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based on this article, please note some images on the old screenshots were not cached and are thus missing…
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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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February 19th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Firefox addon called Xoopit offers a handy way to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail account. Just follow those simple steps:…
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