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by Greg Cruey on January 10, 2010
If you decided to try social networking and then decided you really didn't like it, you've probably figured out that there is no going back - at least for some of the social networks. And w...
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by Greg Cruey on January 9, 2010
I like Ping.fm because it saves me time. I can update several of my social network sites at once - Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc. And often I can get to Ping when the social networking sites I...
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by Greg Cruey on December 22, 2009
It's a question that residents of cyberspace are slowly starting to wrap their mind around. What happens to your social sites when you die?
One new startup company, MyWebWill.com, has come up w...
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by Greg Cruey on December 5, 2009
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A survey conducted by MTV shows that one-third of young people between the age of 14 and 24 admit that "they’ve engaged in sexting-related activities that involved either e-maili...
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by Greg Cruey on August 9, 2009
I got my August copy of Learning & Leading from ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) this week. There was an interesting counterpoint on the question of whether teachers sh...
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by Greg Cruey on July 23, 2009
Mashable had an excellent piece recently about how to use social media to support a charity. Among the most obvious suggestions, write a blog post...Blogging is one of the easiest ways you can help a ...
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by Greg Cruey on April 19, 2009
TinyURL has made the process famous (and has definitely done the best at branding themselves for this niche. Twitter (and microblogging in general) has done the most to make the process useful. And no...
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by Greg Cruey on March 19, 2009
A couple of sources (paidContent.org, VentureBeat) had stories today on the wicked-huge earnings report from China's Tencent web portal and social network.
Tencent took in about a billion dollars...
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by Greg Cruey on November 18, 2008
Steven Hodson at The Inquisitr published an interesting piece yesterday on the Lori Drew case and the legal implications it may eventually have for anonymity on the web.
Lori Drew's trial began t...
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by Greg Cruey on November 16, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama delivered the Weekly Democratic Radio Address this morning - on YouTube.
Several blogs commented on the fact that the coming Obama Administration looks set to use social ...
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by Greg Cruey on October 27, 2008
THE INQUISITR had a cute post on Sunday about the growth of social media. The image it created in my mind was one in which social media is something like a growing carbuncle that will one day simply p...
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by Linda Roeder on August 29, 2008
Tell us who you think the best social networking site is, besides MySpace and Facebook. Do you think it will last another year, two, five?
I like Plurk. It's just really fun to play with. Do I th...
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by Linda Roeder on August 14, 2008
Is your state (US) among the most socially active on the Internet? Or are they the most lacking in their social networking skills?
Ken Gaebler has done some simple quick analysis to determine which ...
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by Linda Roeder on June 16, 2008
Is it just me or has Classmates.com been missing? I can't get to their site no matter what I try. I received a notification from Classmates.com a couple weeks ago telling me about their new, free,...
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by Linda Roeder on June 3, 2008
I received a comment from a reader of this blog telling me that many people over 35 are not Internet savvy and wouldn't know how to set up a MySpace account. The World Wide Web started to become p...
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by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on April 20, 2008
I'm sure by now you've all heard the phrase rickrolled. In short, it means tricking someone to click on a link to a video that's supposed to be something really desirable. Instead, they ar...
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by Linda Roeder on February 26, 2008
Pownce, in long time beta, has recently been taken out of beta and opened to the public. They've also been adding some new features. One main feature they've added is the ability to quickly ...
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by Linda Roeder on January 5, 2008
What's your favorite social networking site, website application, start page, mobile website or niche? There are five different categories for you to vote in:
1. Mainstream and Large Scale Networ...
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by Linda Roeder on October 23, 2007
Soon you'll be able to Jaiku right from your Google homepage, at least that's what I'm hoping now that Jaiku has been bought by Internet leader Google. Mike Butcher from Tech Crunch think...
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by Linda Roeder on September 26, 2007
Who would you like to see in a movie about blogging. Now you can decide who should be in the movie Choose from selected bloggers around the Net and tell who you would like to see in the blogging movie...
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by Linda Roeder on September 13, 2007
Let's face it, social networking takes a lot of time. You need to read your friend's blog entries, read all to comments posted to you, find and accept new friends and see all their latest phot...
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by Linda Roeder on September 12, 2007
This is a funny little piece of comedy thought up by Steven Frank of Stevenf.com. It's his way of making money from social networking, if only he could get all the social networking sites to agree...
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by Mark Brooks on August 29, 2007
PRESS RELEASE - Aug 27 - Famster, the leading private social network for families, announced today that it will offer its platform as a white-label solution for brands looking to capitalize on the gro...
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by Mark Brooks on August 22, 2007
WARCRY NETWORK - Aug 20 - A new report revealed that online gaming is America's favorite Internet activity. 34% of U.S. adult Internet users play online games each week, compared with 29% who watc...
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by Linda Roeder on August 13, 2007
"114 million unique visitors (globally) in The month of June" ~Techtree.com (Aug 6)
Wow! That's a lot of visitors. Facebook came in second with 52.2 million unique visitors. One of my p...
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by Linda Roeder on August 6, 2007
Join me in my quest to create a social networking site about social networking sites. A site where you can list all the social networking sites you belong to all in one place. Then you can talk about ...
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by Linda Roeder on August 3, 2007
North Carolina has put together a bill that is aimed at keeping children off social networking sites without permission from their parents. In the bill there's a definition of what a social networ...
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by Linda Roeder on August 3, 2007
Ok, get this, Star Wars has come up with a way for you to do your social networking offline. This is actually a cute idea, but I'll get to that in a moment.
Long before there were Online Social N...
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by Linda Roeder on August 2, 2007
Here's a cute little video that will explain to you why social networking is so popular. It's kind of funny and really explains what networking is and why it works better on the Net.
If you ...
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by Linda Roeder on August 1, 2007
What are You looking for in a social networking site? There are hundreds out there. What brings you in, hooks you? What do you want?
Personally, I like a social networking site where I can add a lot ...
