Category: Social Networks

  • For now, Twitter is what you make it

    Twitter‘s all over the news today, not only tech but also general, reporting and commenting on its announcement yesterday of "a new, re-engineered Twitter.com that provides an easier, faster, and richer experience." In essence, Twitter has re-designed the website with…

  • A cancer-awareness campaign that’s in your face

    Do the images on this page offend you? If they do, I imagine it’s the use of the f-word that you find offensive. Or perhaps its the juxtaposition of that word with the word ‘cancer.’ Possibly it’s the logo’s garish…

  • Just two strikes and Ping’s out for me

    Like many other people, I’ve joined Ping, Apple’s new social network integrated into the latest iTunes 10 release that the company launched last week. Reaction by critics and pundits hasn’t been particularly positive even though Apple says over a million…

  • Connect your community with a Twitter daily newspaper

    About a month ago, I discovered Paper.li, a service that aggregates content linked to by people in a Twitter community into an online newspaper. It’s one of the most useful ways I’ve found for surfacing news and information I might…

  • Measure your fame in tweets and likes

    You have to wonder who really would be taken in by the story of a girl who quit her job very publicly in a series of 33 photos that, via text on a whiteboard, tell the story of why she…