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December 16th, 2009 by Orrett
You know that little media player that Microsoft released a few months ago (November I believe). Well it has since commanded multiple reviews all hailing it as a great alternative to a certain fruity product which has been getting all the attention.…
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December 16th, 2009 by Orrett
So as the year draws to a close, not only has YouTube done the honors of revealing the top searched for and watched videos of this year 2009, Twitter has a list of its own and it’s quite interesting.…
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December 10th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
It is no secret that Twitter has taken the world by storm, especially since you can turn on the TV at any moment to see a celebrity (like P.Diddy) asking you to follow them on Twitter. What gives? Twitter is a wildly popular social media site, and it is used by many businesses, as well as average consumers, to connect…
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October 15th, 2009 by Tisha Tolar
An experiment by MIT involving social media has been almost as revealing as what others can learn about you from an online social media site. Many people sign on to the social media sites in order to reconnect with old friends, new friends, and family members but many may fail to understand just what a profile on sites like MySpace,…
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October 8th, 2009 by Tisha Tolar
People who think social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, revolve solely on celebrity feuds or old friends catching up might just being missing out on the deal of the century. Many big businesses like airline or national retailers are quick to Tweet a deal before the word spread through other mediums.…
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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 11th, 2009 by Ann Smarty
Twitter’s banking an awful lot on the assumed success of their search engine, largely powered by the millions of people who
tweet. A large part of that mechanism is the Trending Topics list, and it’s failing. In fact, it’s possibly becoming more harm than good.…
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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 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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