social networking

Facebook Limits Google Live Search, But It Might Backfire

Kit Eaton — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:22:44 -0500

A big surprise was buried in Google's real time search cavalcade yesterday: The teeny, tiny role that Facebook played in the news.

@Mommy: Get Me Twoddler so I Can Twitter You at Work #babytweetstoo

Kit Eaton — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:57:24 -0500

Everything will soon be connected to the social net--we've said it before, but if you're a social network denier then here's proof positive: Now your tiny baby can status update too. It's all thanks to Twitter, Arduino, and some creative thinking.

Facebook Locks Up Its User Safety With Global Advisory Board

Kit Eaton — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:54:28 -0500

Facebook's press release this morning sounds pretty humdrum on the face of it--"Facebook to Enhance User Safety Through Formation of Global Advisory Board" isn't much of an eye-grabber. But it's actually really, good news. Mostly.

Coke Tries to Sell Coke Zero to You and Your Doppelganger

Kit Eaton — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:28:26 -0500

Ever wondered if there's someone out there right now who looks like you, and who just happens to be drinking a Coke? Well...no, neither have I. But Coke is dipping its toe into social network and face recognition tech to tell you this info.

Dark-Sided DARPA Dangles $40k for Crowdsourced Balloon Hunt

Kit Eaton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:20:44 -0500

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has long been shrouded in mists made of equal measures of awe, mystery, controversy, and spying. Now it's strolling out of those clouds, jauntily singing a 1980s pop ditty by Nena. 99 red balloons, floating in the summer sky

Er, 10 red balloons, actually.

Visualizing Facebookers' Comments on Privacy Tweaks: Dislike Not an Option

Kit Eaton — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:16:54 -0500

Oh Facebook, when are you going to learn? When you've got over a third of a billion people using your site to basically fritter the day away, any tweaks are going to stir up your population. What are Facebookers saying about these new ones, then?

Facebook and Twitter Offer Businesses Opportunities and Challenges

Dan Macsai and Zachary Wilson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul

Ellen McGirt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0500

I've walked into the middle of a swine flu outbreak.

Want to Keep Your Personality Type Hidden? Don't Join Facebook

Kit Eaton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:04:35 -0500

Facebook seems like a damn good mirror for reality, according to research by scientists--at least if you're talking about your real-life persona. Because your Facebook profile turns out to be excellent at capturing your true personality.

Society6 Is Etsy for the Artsy, Crowds Curate

Stephanie Schomer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:37:49 -0500

In the past few years, a number of Web sites have surfaced to make quality art available to the masses (at affordable prices). Gallery owner Jen Bekman's 20x200.com offers limited edition prints starting at $20. TinyShowcase.com does the same, and donates a portion of profits to a charity of the artist's choice. Both sites have developed a fan base, understandably--similar to a gallery, if you like a site's taste and aesthetic, you'll keep going back for more.

But what happens if you take away the curator and leave everything up to your customers?

Be social and the networking will follow.

Lynette Chiang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:11 -0500

Oxymoron of the week: 'Let's incorporate social networking".

Just look at that sentence!

Leading in Social Media Monetization

Lena L. West — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:23:38 -0500

There are not many people I sit around thinking about meeting. It's not that I have a super-elevated opinion of myself. It's more than I'm your average (or not so average) jaded New Yorker who has seen things and met some people. A lot of things and a lot of people.

But, as stalker-ish as it might sound ever since I started working in IT more than a decade ago, I've wanted to meet Anu Shukla.

Infographic of the Day: 30 Free Web Sites for Online Promotion

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:21:34 -0500

Forget Bloomies. Use Augmented Reality to Clothes-Shop from Your Computer

Kit Eaton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:15:23 -0500

We mentioned Zugara's neat augmented reality clothes shopping experiment before--noting how cool it could make online shopping by letting you try out virtual clothes. Well, it's an experiment no more: Online fashion store Tobi has launched it for real.

How Rapleaf Is Data-Mining Your Friend Lists to Predict Your Credit Risk

Lucas Conley — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:40:56 -0500

They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. Joel Jewitt is inclined to agree.

Facebook Hijackers Speak Out About... School Project?

Zachary Wilson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:22:54 -0500

Hundreds of Facebook groups were turned into zombies on Tuesday in an attempt to display just how vulnerable social networkers can be. Using a design flaw in Facebook's groups feature, a group called Control Your Info found Facebook groups where the administrator had stepped down, joined the group, claimed the vacant administrator spot (which is open to any group member when the administrator leaves) and changed the name to Control Your Info.

Interactyx Limited's TOPYX is Named Best of Elearning! 2009 Award Winner

Alfred Novas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:56:33 -0500

BONITA SPRINGS, FL (EON – Enhanced Online News) — November 10, 2009 — We are proud to announce that I

U.S. and U.K.'s Individuality Is Depressing, but Social Nets May Help

Kit Eaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:56:32 -0500

Western society's habits, according to a new survey, are resulting in overly individualistic behavior that makes us depressed. But before that news makes you sad, a different piece of research says the social networking boom may be able to help.

Infographic of the Day: Nebul.us Graphs Your Lifestream

Cliff Kuang — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:12:56 -0500

Internet pundits and VC's have been shouting for some time about the discovery potential of social networking--the idea that your friends and contacts are the best arbiters of what you might like, and that social networking finally makes those exchanges frictionless. Just one problem: The avalanche of social networking sites--not to mention media sites--makes wading through all the noise an overwhelming, full-time task.

If Your 9-Year-Old Doesn't Have a Cell Phone, He's Not Socializing Enough

Kit Eaton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:40:12 -0500

One in five kids have their own cell phone by the time they are 8 years old, according to Nielsen's latest survey, "A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids." And guess what? The kids love using their phones to socialize.

A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io

Chris Dannen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:18:18 -0500

Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; FriendFeed, for example, pulls together just a few services, but does it well. Other services are more ambitious; Fuser is a kind of centralized inbox for all your email accounts and social networking tools, and Flock is an entire browser meant to integrate much of the same stuff.

35 Politis PR Tips and Counting

David Politis — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:57:56 -0400

Call it a sales/marketing ploy; call it an altruistic effort to give back and/or pay it forward; either way, it doesn't matter to me what you call it.

But I started a little effort a few months ago on the Politis Communications Website called Politis PR Tips. And I've now got 35 different tips published there.

Not a ton, but not insignificant either.

Interactyx Limited Named a Finalist for Best of Elearning! 2009

Alfred Novas — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:22:31 -0400

BONITA SPRINGS, FL — (EON: Enhanced Online News)—October 29, 2009—We are pleased to announce that Interactyx Limited has been named a finalist for the Best of Elearning! 2009 by Elearning! Magazine.

Are you ready for all the new employees you will soon hire?

Alfred Novas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:21:52 -0400

Are you ready for all the new employees you will soon hire?

Mozilla's Raindrop: Chasing Google's Wave, or Damping Digital Noise?

Kit Eaton — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:50:41 -0400

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox browser, just dropped a preview of an experimental project that will integrate IM, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more into one user experience. It's called Raindrop, and it sounds a heck of a lot like Google Wave.