Twitter + Facebook Status = Harmony

Finally, Facebook has adapted its API to allow the Twitter application to update users’ facebook status!  I have been using the Twitter application to post my ‘tweets’ to my profile and News Feed since just after the platform launch and ever since I have hated the redundancy of having to update twitter and facebook, but [...]

September 29th Web Picks

This edition of my Web Picks is quite the hodge-podge of interesting/useful sites across the internet…

Yuxt is a social video-sharing site that makes for a really easy way to share and host your own video clips or those that you find on other sites. A simple drag-n-drop uploading feature effectively eliminates any learning curve [...]

The Next Microsoft Product: Facebook Live?

The Wall Street journal is reporting that Microsoft may be in talks to buy a stake in facebook that would give the software giant a hold on up to 5% of the swiftly-growing social networking site. Such a purchase is rumored to be valued between $300-$500 million, which would value facebook at up to [...]

Social Networking in the Collegiate Market: Part I (The Ripple Effect)

I’d like to delve into an analysis of the wide world of social networking in the collegiate world, but that has proven to be a pretty daunting task. It is important to recognize that there is a distinct difference between the online presence of college students and the general population that engages in ‘web [...]

Networking Your ‘Social Flow’: Part II

On Tuesday, TechCruch had a post about the future of mobile networks; something I had written about in a post a few weeks ago. Their article is very well written, and I encourage you to check it out.
The basic idea is that the future of mobile social networks lies in the development of proximity-based [...]

Quick News: September 9th Edition

I was just drafting an email with the weekend’s social networking and political news, when I realized that I might as well post it…maybe it will become a regular thing, along with the Web Picks. We shall see, but for now, this is what happened this weekend across the internet:

Steve Forbes is predicting that [...]

Facebook News Feed: The Newest Spam Supplier?

I have come to terms with the fact that I am a Facebook Fanatic (capitalized, because it might as well be an official title), and as such I have enjoyed the transformation of facebook from a small, college-based social network with its single text-box ‘Wall’ in the days before ’status updates’ and ‘global groups’ to [...]

Del.icio.us Gets Ready to Grow Up

Yesterday, the social bookmarking website del.icio.us launched an invite-only preview of its upcoming facelift that will take this excellent site into 2.0-land. Currently del.icio.us is my favorite site to use to share links: it makes a good RSS feed, it styles well in my blog, and it’s built-in browser add-on makes this one of the [...]

Cross-Platform Rendering Revelations

I have just realized that some parts of my site render very oddly in both Firefox and IE7 when on a Windows machine. It is mainly affecting my Shelfari widget and the quality of photos…so hopefully it won’t be too difficult to correct.  I am just realizing this because at home and at my office, [...]

September 4th Web Picks

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round out this week’s list:

Natuba is a social [...]