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Twitter Sets Follow Limits
Twitter is trying to enforce follow limits for users. In my opinion, this will prevent spammers from trying to follow as many people per day, in hopes that they will be reciprocated. It’s a race to see who can get the most followers. According to Twitter: “For some time, we’ve limited the number of accounts [...]
Full StoryCelebrities Among The Mainstream on Twitter!
Twitter has become very popular lately, and now real-life celebrities and super stars are joining in. In recent news, Ashton Kutcher got his 1 millionth follower today, having beaten an account owned by CNN for the milestone. Wednesday, Kutcher blew past third-place Britney Spears and her 950,000+ followers. Today, Kutcher and Twitter CEO Evan Williams [...]
Full StoryI Declare Today Comment Day
You have a blog and you are passionate about what you write, but your real motive is to gain popularity and fans. Are you really converting your traffic into loyal followers? In most cases many of us are not doing well with conversion. Social networks work well in getting traffic, but not always for converting [...]
Full StoryFacebook to Add Chat to Apps
Applications created for the Facebook platform can now feature live chat, a capability the company foresees will not only make programs more appealing but also boost their usage and rate of adoption. Adding Facebook Chat could result in end users interacting more with an application, as well as in making it easier for them to [...]
Full StoryFacebook Reaches Another Milestone
A little more than a month after announcing it had 150 million active users, Facebook has reached 175 million active users–the statistic the social-networking site prefers to use, rather than registered accounts overall. Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s application platform team, announced the milestone Friday evening on his Twitter/FriendFeed. Facebook reached 150 million just more [...]
Full StoryHelp our Vets with USA Together
The greatest thing one human can do is to put their own life on the line to protect another human. That is what our service men and women do every day. Some of our Vets are returning from service injured and have some problems in these hard economic times. I think they deserve better. The [...]
Full StoryVatican Plunges into New Media
The holy of holiest takes a plunge into new media! The Vatican will soon have its own channel on the video sharing site YouTube where the Catholic faithful or the curious will be able to see Pope Benedict or Church events, a Vatican source said on Saturday. So now I can watch mass on YouTube [...]
Full StoryHow to Avoid being Banned using StumbleUpon
In the last 6 weeks many of the friends I made and shared links with are no longer around and for good reason. They all had their StumbleUpon accounts put under review which means you will never get it back, you can count on that. This recently happened to me back in November 2008. I [...]
Full StorySocial Media Getting Out of Hand!
Here we go again! More social media being added, but who has the time? There are so many social media sites to choose from who can keep up with all of them? I am sticking with my two guns that work best for me and allow me to put more time into, but hey that’s [...]
Full StoryEntrecard Slowly Fading Away
As stated on the Entrecard Homepage: “Entrecard is a free blogging network that truly brings visitors to your blog”. It’s free, but far from where it should be after one year. I was a member for more than 6 months and requested Entrecard to delete my account, as I no longer felt that Entrecard’s owner [...]
Full StoryMySpace Affecting our Teens
There are many ways to win a popularity contest and MySpace isn’t one of them. It’s a site mostly made up of teenagers that are in a race against other peers on who has the most friends, and who is the coolest. It could lead to bigger issues like sharing too much information or too [...]
Full StoryWhy StumbleUpon Makes a Difference
I am sure I share the same views with many of you about StumbleUpon. Here’s a list of my 7 reasons why StumbleUpon makes a difference over many of its competitors. Instant traffic: StumbleUpon can jump start almost any blog. TechJaws.com has seen more than 5000 daily unique visitors in one day that came from [...]
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