A Recession Would Do Google Good?
I think most of us can agree that an economic recession would be bad. But not everyone – and everything – would be affected in the same way, and at least one expert onlooker thinks Google would benefit.
MTV Launches Social Network For Activists
Viacom’s MTV has launched a new social networking site called Think.MTV.com, and the site is focused on encouraging young people to become involved in youth activism.
Managing Your Reputation
Have you ever been hanging out, randomly searching online and found something negative about yourself in a search engine results page?
Yahoo Keeps It In The (Flickr) Family
A little bit of nepotism is to be expected. A lot of it can be annoying, and, in the case of Yahoo’s image search results and Flickr, rather less than helpful.
Google Shared Stuff
It seems Google’s decided to dive into the arena of social bookmarking with their soft launch of Shared Stuff.
Gphone Enroute? What About The Network?
Lots of sites have been chattering about the potential for a Google branded handset emerging in the market, but the real news will be when the company lights up a wireless network to support it.
Digg Gets More Social
Business Week reports today that Digg will be rolling out a brand new, even more social site any minute now.
Designed to bring more of a social networking aspect to the site, the new design will feature the ability to create a “real” profile page, better connect with your Digg friends, monitor their activities and send them stories. Just what die-hard Diggers needed: another excuse to while away the hours on their favorite website.
MySpace And Facebook Visitors Drive Time Spent
U.S. Internet users between the ages of 12-17 who visit both MySpace and Facebook spend more time at each site than those who visit just one or the other according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
What’s it Mean When A Facebook App is Sold?
I should begin by clearly stating I’m no legal expert, application developer or feeling overly paranoid (oh shut up!). However, my travels today led me to discover something I wasn’t aware of before.
Facebook applications can be sold by their creators.
CBS Apologizes To Blogger
A senior executive at CBS News Corporation has issued an apology to a viewer who complained via email about anchor Katie Couric’s reporting from Iraq and was insulted in CBS’s reply.