Social sites
An appliance just for tweets
Are you a devoted tweeter? Then there’s an appliance just for you. Its sole function is tweeting. It’s called TwitterPeek and CNET describes it:
A new gadget designed specifically for people who want to tweet on the go was launched Tuesday by gadget maker Peek.
The device, dubbed TwitterPeek, does one thing and one thing only: [...]
About Facebook and other social sites
I am not personally involved with social sites but a lot of people are. Recently, I have run across a number of articles and posts about Facebook and other social sites and they seemed worth passing on:
An Application to Help Scrub Those Regrettable Photos From FacebookAn article in the New York Times about a Facebook [...]
Social searching from Google
Google has unveiled another form of search. It’s social searching.
More easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other public content from your social circle.
Sign in to Google and do a search. If there’s relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search [...]
Adjust your mindset for social networks
Most of us are pretty decent folk; we don’t go around trying to be malicious or looking for ways to cheat our neighbors. In our day-to-day life we encounter a fairly limited number of people and we tend to assume they are straightforward until proven otherwise. Human society as we know it would be unworkable [...]
Is Twitter overloaded?
On the heels of the Pew study reported in the previous post comes Harry McCracken asking in his Technologizer blog, Is Twitter Basically Broken? Lately, Twitter has been reporting a lot of errors due to an overload of traffic and McCracken complains:
For the moment, I lump Twitter in with my cell-phone service–it works most of [...]
Social networking keeps growing
The social networking sites just keep growing. The Pew Internet & American Life Project claims that 19 percent of the people who use the Internet also use one or more social networking sites:
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about [...]
Have social sites made email obsolete?
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal says that email is no longer the communication method of choice:
Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over.
In its place, a new generation of services is starting to take hold—services like Twitter and Facebook and countless others vying for a [...]
Do people reveal too much on social networks?
A lot of people are saying more than they should on the social networks. That’s not to mention all the revealing pictures and videos. Not only might some embarrassing data come back to haunt you in the future but there are some current dangers according to John Dvorak. In his column at MarketWatch, he says [...]
A new Internet?
That’s what Om Malik says we are getting. Writing at his site Gigaom, Malik describes what he calls the “NewNet”:
Right in front of our eyes, the web (and by extension, the Internet) is changing — specifically, the rise of social networking and the real-time web are changing the way information on the Internet is created [...]
Adults fuel Twitter growth
The early success of social sites has been attributed to teenagers but the explosive growth of Twitter is more due to middle-aged adults. The New York Times Bits blog reports:
A report on the reach of social technologies, published Tuesday by Forrester Research, said that in the last year, young people almost universally used social [...]
Searching the Web for feelings
The rapid growth of social sites is leading to interest in a new kind of search- not for facts but for feelings. The New York Times reports:
The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computer scientists, this [...]