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As is the case with every other social networking trend since Sadie Hawkins Day at Camp Arrowhead when I was in my early teens, Facebook just isn’t my style. I find the concept tedious, an open invitation to piss off a spouse or employer, and in the (...)
25 Nov. 2009 | | Shaun Mullen
In Toulouse last Friday the French national rugby team took on the might of the reigning world champions South Africa - and won 20-13. A fantastic victory for Les Bleus over the Springboks, but not the only reason the game made the headlines. Instead (...)
17 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
Social media sites are converging. Now you can easily update Facebook and Twitter at the same time, or LinkedIn and Twitter, or... You get the idea. Speed and simplicity are wonderful, but what about communication ? When I teach business writing, one of (...)
12 nov. 2009 | 2 comments | Donna Papacosta
So I got this email today “from Facebook”. It looked very legitimate and real. You must have realized by now that there was a major update to your Facebook’s front page with the News Feed and Live Feed. This email might fool lots of (...)
29 oct. 2009 | 3 comments | Michael R. Aulia
At BlogWorld Expo earlier this month, I sat in on a panel by Mari Smith, a Facebook evangelist whose enthusiasm is irresistible. It wasn’t that I had a huge interest in learning more about Facebook because, frankly, I’ve never got the Facebook (...)
27 oct. 2009 | | Mark Evans
The largest growing economic force in the world isn’t China or India — it’s women, and this is matched with online usage - says Meettheboss.com study. The largest growing economic force in the world is not China or India it is Women. The (...)
26 Oct. 2009 | | Emma Naylor
I know how to swim, and about 20 years ago I took a CPR course. Do you think this qualifies me to be a lifeguard ? I’m sure I could pick up the other skills on the job, right ? All that rescuing stuff. I can cook. Maybe I should set up shop as a (...)
23 oct. 2009 | | Donna Papacosta
Something to look forward to for all those interested in French politics. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised to tweet during December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference. Those following him on Twitter will be able to (...)
7 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton
With many companies now using networking sites as an opportunity for business, online data can be shared with ease. But just who is reading our profiles? Recent studies have shown that the use of social networking sites are now being seen as an (...)
10 Sep. 2009 | | Emma Naylor
On Friday night, Chanelle Rae became the fourth student of the same Australian high school to commit suicide this year, “raising serious concerns about cyber-bullying and copycat suicides”. That’s the stark intro to an Australian IT (...)
23 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released its long-awaited finding (media release, finding, backgrounder) in the complaint against Facebook on a variety of privacy grounds. The complaint was launched by CIPPIC in May 2008 (note that I (...)
17 jui. 2009 | | Michael Geist
A study run by online business networking service www.MeettheBoss.com shows that their European executives are spending an extra 11 hours a month online sharing their professional experiences and learning from their peers. MeettheBoss surveyed 15,000 of (...)
9 Jun. 2009 | | Emma Naylor
The world’s biggest social networking website Facebook, with 200 million users, is now worth $10 billion. In 2007, its value was estimated $15 billion. This new value was calculated after the Russian group Digital Sky Technologies decided to buy (...)
27 May. 2009 | | NYFP
On Thursday BusinessWeek reported Facebook is seeking new financing for its data center operation growth in 2009. Facebook continues to add new members and their associated content at an extremely fast pace, with most new growth coming from international (...)
3 avr. 2009 | | Niall Kennedy
Even though Facebook remains the number one social network in the world, Twitter is getting more and more powerful. Facebook and its 175 million users around the world is still ten times bigger than Twitter, but Twitter’s members number increased by (...)
18 Mar. 2009 | | NYFP
If you live in Ontario, Canada, and you’re on Facebook, be careful. Because if you’re involved in a civil court case, there’s a better than even chance lawyers will go ferreting around in your account, looking for damaging information. (...)
26 fév. 2009 | | Jon Newton
Can Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook team get anything right ? At the moment they’re suffering a huge backlash of outrage expressed by members who’ve once again caught Mr Z & Co with their pants around their ankles. ‘Please (...)
23 fév. 2009 | | Jon Newton
Facebook filed eight legal complaints in United States federal court against Power Ventures, operators of social aggregator Power.com (story via NYT Bits blog). Facebook claims Power collected Facebook usernames and passwords, stored Facebook data on (...)
5 jan. 2009 | | Niall Kennedy
You could call Facebook a bit of a failure from the point of view of its owners, who wanted it to be a online advertising cash machine. But it is a raging success with its members who use it to talk to each other, pass messages, organise campaigns and (...)
17 Dec. 2008 | | Jon Newton
To the continuing distress of Facebook’s owners, ‘members’ - damn them! - “see Facebook as a means of keeping in touch with each other, and forcing various government and commercial elements, including Facebook itself, to toe the (...)
12 Nov. 2008 | | Jon Newton
Are you on Facebook ? May be spending hours and hours on either designing your website, leaving messages on your friends’ site, sending out flowers, fighting battles with werewolves and others ? Or are you the more casual user, checking in every now (...)
13 oct. 2008 | | Andreas
Like a relationship gone pear-shaped and heading nowhere, I’ve been looking for an excuse to leave Facebook. Truth be told, I’ve completely lost that loving feeling. I rarely check out Facebook, and feel absolutely no social media guilt for (...)
5 jui. 2008 | | Mark Evans
While it is a bit of a slow news week, the addition of chat functionality to facebook seems to be getting a lot of interest. Is this really a functionality that is particularly life changing ? There is some good use for this if most of your friends are on (...)
8 avr. 2008 | | Geek News Central
In November, the duo created Friends for Sale, now one of Facebook’s most popular games with nearly 700,000 daily players. Users buy, sell and own their friends, as though their friends were pets or stocks. Owners can control their acquisitions, (...)
2 avr. 2008 | | Marginal Revolution
P2P means Peer-to-Peer or, as we prefer to define it, People-to-People. With that definitely in mind, bSocial Networks is trying to establish a marketing concept it’s calling C2C, short for Consumer-to-Consumer. Facebook last year came a serious (...)
14 mar. 2008 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
The big story in Toronto today is news that Ryerson University stands ready to expel a student for their use of Facebook. In this instance, the student was an administrator of a Facebook group that students in a chemistry class used to assist one another (...)
7 mar. 2008 | | Michael Geist
Facebook is proactively deleting Pages and other content from its site in an attempt to limit fake listings created by unauthorized entities. The new enforcement procedures started on Thursday night with many Facebook users receiving notifications of (...)
21 déc. 2007 | | Niall Kennedy
Here they are, popping up each time I log on : friend requests, vampires invitations, werewolves invitation, zombies invitations, IQ test invitations, survey/petition/vote invitations, petrolhead invitations, optical illusions requests, movie rack (...)
12 Dec. 2007 | | Stephanemot
I’m not seeing it yet - at least not in the Facebook messages I’ve gotten so far today - but Mike Arrington says that Facebook is now sending messages straight to you in your email, instead of making you click through to read them. This might (...)
7 déc. 2007 | | Mathew Ingram
How to Block Beacon in Firefox : http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/ That’s a post on the Facebook users’ anti-Beacon protest page which as of yesterday had 65,000 people signed up. Meanwhile, what amounts to a new protest (...)
5 déc. 2007 | | Jon Newton
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