Phishing for Popularity on Twitter
In an effort to build its own popularity, social networking has played largely upon the individual’s craving for popularity. How many friends…
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In an effort to build its own popularity, social networking has played largely upon the individual’s craving for popularity. How many friends…
We all know that social networking is where it's at these days, but it's not all about the ones everybody knows - the Facebooks, the MySpaces, the Twitters, etc. At the recent Social Media Club gathering in Louisville, Chris Brogan discussed what he calls "velvet rope" social networks. Have you ever participated in an exclusive social network? Discuss your experience.
It's not much of a secret that Facebook has been looking over Twitter's shoulder and imitating the occasional feature for quite some time. Now, it seems that Google may be doing something similar, as Larry Page made an interesting comment about real-time search recently. Page put in an appearance at the Google Zeitgeist conference near London, and Loic Le Meur, the founder and CEO of…
Aside from announcing its new collaboration platform Google Wave today, Google has also introduced a set of real-time gadget APIs. These APIs allow Google gadgets hosted in different users' browsers to communicate with each other.
PC World is pointing to an interesting study that has found that some popular social sites are not really deleting your photos when you think they are. When the average user deletes a photo they have posted on Facebook for example, they assume that photo is gone.
Earlier this month, Dell launched a subsite specifically tailored to attract a female clientele. But apparently, Dell was wearing the wrong outfit, because the relationship between Dell and Della was a short-lived affair. In fact, if you go to the link for the Della site, you are automatically redirected to Dell’s Lifestyle home page, making it appear that Della never even existed in the first…