Buzzword Chasers

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, [...]

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Get Organized: Outlook Social Connector

As more and more communication takes place online, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of everything we do through email and social networking sites. However, Microsoft is introducing a social connector that will help individuals save time and energy. Outlook Social Connector: What You Need to Know What is the key to organizing social networking? [...]

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Why Gmail went down yesterday : the verdict

When users yesterday were unable to connect to the popular Google email service and were receiving errors for at least 15-20 minutes, they rushed to express their panic on Twitter, with thousands of tweets from frustrated users being posted. But what exactly happened over there at Google HQ? Gmail has thousands and thousands of overlapping [...]

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At&t combines your favorite social networking sites in one Mobile App

AT&T has now combined all your favorite social networking applications, Facebook, MySpace and  Twitter, into one all inclusive mobile app. They call it the AT&T Social Net App, and its available to download for free. This nifty little app allows users to view and manage their social networking profiles through and easy to use single menu [...]

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Facebook has a hard time letting you go!

Facebook is now up to 250 million users, with 50 million of them just signing up for a profile in the past 90 days! So how is it they have a such a high user retention rate? The answer just may be GUILT. Let’s pretend you are applying for a new job, and you don’t want [...]

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