Buzzword Chasers

Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part II

Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… A Promising but Murky Future- Part 2 To Tell-All or Not to Tell-All, That is the Question In part I, the great marketing and business potential of geo-location was discussed. However, this promise hinges largely on the willingness of people to continue to broadcast their lives in great detail on social [...]

Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part 1

Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part 1 Imagine reading someone’s tweet about the World Cup and being able to tell if they are watching the game on TV or are actually at the stadium. This is now a reality as Twitter announced on its blog Monday the introduction of a location identification [...]

YouTube Insights: Video Analytics Serve up Viewer Traffic and Origins

YouTube has recently made interesting changes to their website that impact how users interact with the site, as well as the level of information available to ‘channel’ owners. The most notable introduction is YouTube Insight, a comprehensive video analytics program. Google and YouTube partnered to create YouTube Insight. Users can now log [...]

Facebook changing again: “Like” instead of “Become a Fan”

Last week, Facebook announced that it’s making a slight change to it’s wording, with some potentially big implications. In the next few weeks, instead of a user clicking a button saying “Become a Fan” to start following a brand , users will simply have to “Like” them. The change is purely a simple word change, [...]

More changes to Facebook’s governing docs

For almost a year now, Facebook has been engaging in an open and transparent system of governance. They now post all proposed changes to their governing documents before they go into effect to give us, the people who use Facebook, the chance to give our feedback on these proposals and listen to our input. Most online [...]

April Fools: The games are in full effect!

It’s that time of year again, April Fools Day!, and the online hoaxing is everywhere! You’ve probably already seen them everywhere today. That amazing deal, or that new app that sounds too good to be true, chances are….it probably is — very few companies take April 1st seriously, but its all in good fun! Here are some [...]

The Truth about Spam: How to Decipher Comment Spam and What to do if you’ve been Infected

Everyone’s buzzing about Windows 7

Windows 7 has been a long time coming, but finally went on sale today. Windows 7 is now available on new PCs as well as available as an upgrade on some old ones. No shock to anyone, it is rapidly becoming one the most talked about topics on the web. Everyone is talking about it on [...]

Social Media: changing the way you travel

Before this whole social media revolution came about, if you have ever been stuck waiting at an airport because your flight is delayed or you’re sitting on the runway waiting for your plane to take off, you probably had no choice but to wait it out or vent to the person sitting next to you [...]

Bring on the Facebook audio chat!

Facebook's code is showing that it is trying to implement audio chat with the help of Vivox.