Let’s Stop The Nonsense, OK?

The “bleeding-edge” segment of the Internet has gone full-on crazy, so it’s time to give them their medicine… and fast. First of all, let’s make some definitions: “technology” does not include only the Internet “the Internet” does not include only ... continue

On Incentive Offers in Facebook, the truth lies somewhere in the middle

My old boss Michael Arrington has made headlines over the weekend when a video of him going mental at OfferPal CEO Anu Shukla at Friday's Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco emerged online. Michael's gripe seems to be ... continue

Casually emasculating your spouse via Facebook update

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NHL Faces Future With New Facebook Page

New York, NY (AHN) - The National Hockey League (NHL) has unveiled the official NHL fan page on Facebook. The NHL's new presence on Facebook is part of the League's broader initiative to make it convenient for fans ... continue

Eye-Fi Now Offering Direct To Facebook Uploads From Your Digital Camera

Eye-Fi has just announced that their now offering Facebook support for their WiFi enabled memory cards for digital cameras. Using the program users can take pictures and then send them right to their Facebook accounts without need ... continue

To whom it may concern: Please delete my Facebook account upon my death

I know they say that everything lives forever on the Internet but for bloggers and people involved in producing content this isn't always the case. There will come a point in the future where those sites we ... continue

The hashtag jungle of real time search

Last week my partners in crime over at The Cynical Bastards podcast talked about the deals that Twitter had made with both Microsoft and Google that would allow both companies access to the fire hose of information ... continue

Dragons to slay and dungeons to explore – on Facebook

I never played the original Dungeons & Dragons board game even though it was probably one of the biggest 'social' games of its time but it seems that even this venerable classic has been bitten by the ... continue

Facebook group “I Automatically Hate the New Facebook Homepage” is mocking you

And in not many people are getting the joke. Ostensibly to mock the hundreds of Facebook groups that spring up in the presence of any change at all in the Facebook GUI, someone's gone and created an (all-caps) ... continue

Facebook get a Friendfeed treatment – no surprise there

It should be no surprise that today's news about Facebook's launching of the Live News feed option for your Facebook status update page has made the front pages of just about every tech blog. Given Facebook's recent ... continue

Looking at the nuances of the Twitter search deals

Well there is no denying that today was an interesting one when it comes to the world of search and the real time web. From everything I have read so far today everyone seems to be of ... continue

Social media in a zombie apocalypse

Similar to the plot of Diary of the Dead, a College Humor post imagines that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, the spreading horror would be blowing up Twitter and Facebook. Related posts:Japan training children to prepare ... continue