Social Networking
New App Menu for Facebook
This is new… I just cant keep up with the facebook design changes anymore. But it is kind of cool.
Facebook Adds New Advertisement Model?
Just logged into facebook to discover a new sort of advertisement in my right sidebar where you typically see the Sponsored gift of the day. It seems that facebook may be trying to diversify its advertising model a bit from typical display and flyer ads by including [...]
Facebook… Is it Up, Down, or Somewhere In Between?
At first I thought it was our sometimes-screwy internet connection at work, but I’m getting reports from friends and colleagues all over the US that Facebook is either not loading, loading super slow or not allowing them to navigate away from their homepage in the site. Anyone [...]
Facebook Adds Profile Pictures to Quick Search
Over the past few months, it seems Facebook has been making lots of minor changes to its Quick Search box in the top left of the site to make it easier to find your friends more quickly. So far I have loved the changes, especially since I [...]
Improv Everywhere Hits Grand Central Station
Improv Everywhere, a loosely affiliated group of people around the world that coordinate flash-mob events recently did an amazing stunt in New York’s Grand Central Station. They walked in and at exactly the same moment, 207 people froze in place in all sorts of positions, in the [...]
Online Communities Map
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Online Communities Map , originally uploaded by cafourek . Found this hilarious map [via StumbleUpon] and I think it is a hilarious, and [...]
A Plain-English Guide to the Facebook Terms of Use
NOTE: Due to a server crash in mid 2008, the screenshots associated with this post are no longer available, however the text still does a good job of covering the Terms of Service. I will be writing an updated post in the near future. Sorry for the [...]
The Twitter Tuesday Tidal Wave
“Drop a pebble, make a wave“ That’s what happened when Jeremiah posted (and twittered) about Twitter and how it can be used. It has become known as Twitter Tuesday, and I doubt if there is a person left on the service that hasn’t made new connections because [...]
NBC Falls Waaaay Off the Bandwagon
Over the last couple of months, NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker has had a rather public spat with Apple as his company has pulled out of iTunes because apparently Steve wouldn’t let NBC price gouge its consumers for episodes of shows like Heroes and Biggest Loser…so Jeff decided [...]
The Great Google Strikes Again
Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking. It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social [...]
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