Today Google announced its latest social application, designed to bring the fire hose of social media and status updates down to a useful trickle of the most "interesting" bits. Dubbed Google Buzz,...
Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits
Blogging is falling out of favor among the young'uns these days as they move to quicker-moving social networking sites. At the same time, older adults are getting into blogging and teens still...
Firms worry about social networks, but don’t block access
Despite widespread paranoia that social networks are putting businesses at risk, companies continue to give employees open access to them. The latest Security Threat Report (PDF) from security research firm Sophos...
Pope: priests should blog, tweet the gospel too
Priests blogging! Cardinals on Facebook! Dogs and cats living together! No, it's not the mass hysteria out of an 80s sci-fi movie: Pope Benedict XVI urged priests over the weekend to use...
News sourcing experiment to rely solely on Facebook, tweets
"This is the true story... of five strangers picked to live in a house, work together and report only from Twitter... to find out what happens... when the Internet stops being polite......
LinkedIn app releases version 3.0 for the iPhone
Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store
LinkedIn has always seemed like the "me too" of social networks, in my mind. They started out as a site more about careers and job networking, but with the big growth of Facebook the last two...An updated guide to Facebook privacy: December 2009 edition
By now, most Facebook users are aware by some means or another that the company has made changes to its privacy settings. Though these updates have largely been controversial, there are...
