Articles tagged "social networks"

I am not a big LinkedIn user. But every time I sign in, a weird thing happens.

If you really want a personalized newspaper, go buy a copy of The New York Times and throw away the sections you don't like.

Remember back in the day when Facebook was filled with people you actually knew?

It's been over three years since Facebook poked America in the eye with a new photo tagging feature that took advantage of some very scary technology.

Instagram's new Terms of Service agreement is a middle finger to users, so give the middle finger back.

The biggest innovation in alarm clocks since their invention has to be the slowly-increasing volume option on my phone. Seriously, try going back to your old full-blast alarm and you'll wake up screaming. But all that says it that alarm clocks haven'…

A couple days ago, I wrote a post about the recent phenomenon of liberal Facebookers inexplicably finding out they'd unknowingly 'Liked' Mitt Romney. The post got picked up by Slashdot, which brought over a small flood of readers from a broad backgro…

Here I am, in present day Astoria, Queens, on my landline. There are no tricks in this image, no filters, only a bit of cropping. I'm on my "AT&T trim-line 210":http://www.amazon.com/AT-Corded-Phone-Black-Handset/dp/B00005MITU/ref=pd_cp_e_0. It's no

Have you ever play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? You know, the one where you name an actor, and then all your friends put their heads together to try and connect that actor's career to Kevin Bacon in no more than six associations. This involves lots of…

Over a billion people use Facebook. Sorry, that's the predominant way we share information and communicate online; sometimes, especially for those young ones who never go outside anymore, it's the predominant way info gets shared, period. Nothing els…

Decades before Facebook, before MySpace and before Friendster, a small group of hippies in San Francisco banned together and created one of the earliest social network: The Well. Today, nearly three decades after its founding The Well's online commun…

Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls…

Remember all those times you've found yourself rudely jarred back to reality after a nice daydream by somebody telling you to "snap out of it" or somebody waving their hand in front of your face like you were some sort of deranged motion detector? Da…

The Goog is boasting that more than 90 million people have signed up for Google+. Those are pretty impressive numbers. I mean, if you had 90 million people at your disposal, you could do anything. You'd rule the Internet. Except there's one little pr…

There's a popular concern that having, say, a thousand friends on Facebook or ten thousand followers on twitter, implies a new age of humans sociality that values quantity over quality. This line of thought has always reeked of bullshit to me. To a…

When we think about September 11, it can be easy to forget just how long a period a decade is in the Internet age. In 2001, only "half the country":http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm even used the Internet, a number that grew to around 77 pe…

A few weeks in, the honeymoon period is over for Google+ and it seems like some people are already losing interest. Yes, the backlash has already begun. But is Google+ going to fail? In a word: No+. Google+ had 1.79 million visits for the week end…