Category: Social Networks

  • Goodbye Facebook?

    [Update May 17: If you read this post before today, you might notice that the title now has changed with the addition of one extra character: the question mark. Reaction and comments since I published this post on May 15…

  • Earthquakes and wisdom of the crowd

    Last week, a senior Iranian cleric claimed that earthquakes are caused by the promiscuous behaviour of women. Such a claim produced guffaws and countless Twitter retweets in probably most places outside Iran. Now Mashable reports on how a Facebook group…

  • Employee use of social media and networks: inform your decisions

    Blocking employee access in the workplace to social networks and other content (and people) on the web is a tactic employed by many organizations. The most common reasons I hear are that it’s to address organizations’ concerns surrounding security (prevention…

  • Business card simplicity

    Steve Rubel writes on personal presence online, considering where to focus people’s attention via the humble business card on where you are online. I see lots of business cards and most have line after line of addresses of websites, blogs,…

  • Google Buzz: it’s all about search and mobile

    The buzz about Google Buzz has been huge since the new service was announced by Google yesterday. Google Buzz gives you a social network built into Gmail, Google’s web-based email service (known as Google Mail in some countries including the…