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The Story Of Facebook’s Attempt To Buy Twitter
In a BusinessWeek article takes us on the journey of how one monster of social media tried to swallow an up and…
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Google Trends, SEO Create Hacker Perfect Storm
It used to be one was at most risk of getting a computer virus via spam or frequenting bad Internet neighborhoods (places one probably shouldn’t be hanging out in the first place, picking up just any old download they come across). These days malware pushers have come out in the open where the masses collect, and places like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are starting to…
America’s Not Really Tops In Broadband
Americans are more economically productive with broadband than any other country, according to new research. But that doesn’t mean the US in number one in broadband. Likely major ISPs and backbone providers will gleefully point to Saul Hansell’s New York Times blog—and his headline: Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband—in rebuttal to criticism of how they’ve built out their networks.
Twitter Used For Social Media Fundraising?
As some of you may know, I was recently involved in a tagline competition for The Printed Blog. The prize for the winner was a Nintendo Wii. Despite being way behind after missing a day’s worth of voting, I ended up winning the contest, with over 51% of votes.
More On Facebook’s TOS
After what can only be termed a kerfuffle last week over changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook has decided to take some pretty drastic steps to address the issue of content ownership on the social networking site: they’re soliciting input from their users.
Giving Up Facebook For Lent?
Well, I guess it all comes down to whatever floats your spiritual boat. In this case the spiritual boat is floating straight out of Facebook—they’ll be back in a month (some of them sooner, probably). Welcome to Lent 2.0, if I may be so crass. What would Mark Zuckerberg do? If I were him, I’d sit back and marvel, not just that my college days…
