I have never believed that any of the services and products that are built on the whole fallacy of social media have ever had any concern about user privacy and security. From day one of services like ...
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I've been watching the Blippy scandal unfold, but Steve has been pretty vigilant about pointing out why credit card related social networking might just be the worst idea ever when it comes to social media and sharing.
Almost ...
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I was initially intrigued last week when I heard about the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine- as anyone who's prone to compulsive signups knows that many of us leave a trail of abandoned accounts around the interwebs like ...
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No folks, there's no need to go hunting for the utmost ridiculous idea to come out of 2009. It might have just scrapped under the wire with all the big fast food blogs handing out invite codes ...
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Divorce isn't a rare thing these days in broader society. One in two (give or take depending on the country and stats) marriages break down. Sadly one could argue that it is a fact of life.
For years ...
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The new website lets you tell the World when, where and in which position you just had sexual intercourse. The Polish company SharQ sp. z o.o. based IJustMadeLove.com on Google Maps. You start out overlooking the world. ...
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This has to be the absolute best picture ever to illustrate the whole Web 2.0 and Social Media world – most days anyway.
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Did you see those last three Twitter messages that flew by? Did you really read all the messages posted to your Facebook timeline in the last hour? Have you managed to get ...
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From a Flickr founder, new search engine Hunch is out of private beta today.
So if you're Binged out, you've been Google Squared and got your kosher-search on, you might need a bit of a helping hand with ...
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What happens when you get a bunch of rich old pricks gathering together for yet another conference and the talk turns to how poor they are and how it’s the Internet’s fault? Well ...
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An American language monitoring group has named Web 2.0 as the one millionth word or phrase in the English language.
The Global Language Monitor claims to track the English language through a formula that considers the frequency of ...
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I ran across this in one of my feeds just now and it is tying in nicely with another post I am working on for later but I couldn’t resist the urge to share ...
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Yelp, which bills itself as a Web 2.0 review site powered by real people giving real reviews, recently faced charges by San Francisco businesses that Yelp employees were strong arming them for better review placement ...
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If there is one thing you can say about the whole Web 2.0 thing it would be that it definitely hasn’t been boring. Every time you turn around some new service being announce, some new idea ...
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If there is one word I really want to see run out of town it is free. It is a word that has created an extremely lopsided view of what the concept of value ...
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As Duncan reported earlier Google is shutting down; or removing any active upkeep and development, from a slew of services that they had paid out millions for. The reason why – money. The problem is that it ...
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Before there was Disqus, sezWho or even IntenseDebate there was a service called co.mments that allowed you to track all your comments that you left scattered around the blogosphere. Well according to a post by Steve Rubel ...
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So one day you’re blogging away and end up writing something a little on the negative side about the US government (like that’ll never happen) or more specifically about the US Air Force only to find your ...
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Jeff Atwood had a great post the other day about the pirating of software and as much as I would like to say that there was anything new that will come out of it – well – ...
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From the very first time almost when people communicate with each other via some form on computer link up nicknames have been an integral part of that communication. In the beginning days with bulletin board ...
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About 2 months back we decided to try a 2.0 widget called Who's Amung Us. The premise is simple enough: you embed their code, and you can track traffic live on your site.
The service isn't a full ...
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In a world of Web 2.0 and Googlemania there is almost one thing that seems to be universally accepted by everyone involved - Microsoft is uncool and evil. Plus, anyone who professes even the slightest bit of ...
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