Miami to Host 2010 Internet Dating Conference

• January 11th, 2010 by Tisha Tolar

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes the 2010 Internet Dating Conference to be held in Miami, Florida from January 27th-29th. The iDate 2010 conference is the largest gathering of internet dating service providers, social networking executives, mobile telecommunications executives, media executives, vendors and other leaders in the social media industry. Exhibitors will also be on hand to showcase the… Read more

Google Labs To Allow Searches for Social Content

• October 21st, 2009 by Tisha Tolar

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, the VP of Google announced that a new Google Labs experiment will be starting soon. The latest experiment will help searches find information from their social network contacts with every Google search. The project will be launching in the next few weeks. In order to use the service effectively, you have… Read more

MJ Dies, Social Networks Buckle

• 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.… Read more

Facebook (finally) Introduces Vanity URLs

• 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… Read more

Google Makes Waves with Wave

• 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… Read more

Your Social-Networks Under a Microscope

• 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… Read more