Archive for 'Social Networking'
More Twitter Hoopla
In case you haven’t turned on a television or browsed the Internet recently, I will inform you now what all of those little @,#, and other weird symbols you may see belong to the realm of Twitter. You will find the jargon of the social media website not only within its own server’s confines. Twitter-speak [...]
Full StoryGoogle Plus Users Grow to 18 Million
Google+ is still in beta and only a small user base has the privilege of giving it a long test drive, but it made a huge splash amongst iPhone users – more on that in a bit. According to one analyst, Google+ user base is just under 18 million. During a Thursday earnings call, Google [...]
Full StoryFacebook Charging Fees?
What if Facebook were to turn off or abbreviate certain features of its popular social network, would you be willing to pay for full access? Let’s say that 10% of the 700 million users were willing to pay a reoccurring monthly fee of $2.99 to enable all features in full. This would equate to almost [...]
Full StoryWill Google+ Strike Out?
First it was Google Buzz, and last August it was Google Wave and now Google+ (Plus). Google the leader in search holds two-thirds of the U.S. market in search and now it is trying once again to compete with the largest social network – Facebook. Will Google strikeout or is three the charm? What makes [...]
Full StoryCeglia Versus Zuckerberg for Stake in Facebook
It has been said and dragged through the mud that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook from his college buddies; even the movie “The Social Network” depicted such. Many think it’s true that he should split the value among those who created Facebook, but Mark has denied and dismissed these claims. On Monday, Mark [...]
Full StoryWhy Google Could Fall to Facebook
Even the Mighty Casey struck out and Google may be the next to fall from being the most visited site on the internet. Since March 2010, Facebook has gained a ton of ground on the King and is currently less than 10% less in unique visitors daily according to Compete.com. Facebook is currently the second [...]
Full StoryFacebook Serves Up Questionable Ads
Last week I published an article called – “Who’s Searching for You Scam.” It’s about how you can find out who’s searching for you for free? The company behind this is also running TV commercials. What concerns me is that Facebook should do a little research to ensure what people are stating is accurate before [...]
Full StoryFacebook Like Button now Shares
If you haven’t notice the new functionality of the Facebook “Like” Button, it now does the same thing the Share did. It’s about time and I think many users will like this new function a lot better, I know I will. In the past you had two options on Facebook – like it or share [...]
Full StoryBizarre and Entertaining Stumbles on StumbleUpon
If you are not a StumbleUpon user, you should consider signing up. You never know what web site you may stumble upon to see some of the most amazing things that you can find on the internet. Here are some cool stumbles I came across the last few days Logo Design Gone Wrong: 10 Offbeat [...]
Full StoryFacebook Suing Over the Use of Book in a Domain Name
This is absolutely ludicrous! Facebook doesn’t want anyone to register a domain name that uses ‘generic plus book’. There are many domains that have generic plus book such as; Macbook.com SEObook.com (Excellent resource for SEO) lookatbook.com eBook.com Techbook.com (Parked domain) Teachbook (Currently being sued) iownbook.com (Newly registered) According to Facebook: “If others could freely use [...]
Full StoryWhat a Bash at the Chicago Mash!
Last night, a group of us attended the Mashable Summer Tour in downtown Chicago. It was a great time and as I would call it, a bash at the mash! If you missed this awesome event, please try to make it next year. There are a lot of people, like you, who love to network [...]
Full StoryMashable Chicago Summer Tour
Chicago TechJaw’s fans – Are any of you attending tomorrow’s Mashable Chicago event? This will be the last stop on their U.S. Summer Tour. One of our advocates, ServiceLive.com, will be attending as a sponsor. Be sure to stop by the ServiceLive booth for some freebies and fun conversation. WHEN Wednesday, August 11th, 6:00 – [...]
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