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Social Networks
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“Focus on the User” inserts competing social network links into Google search results
09 Feb 2012 by Carl Natale
When Google launched “Search Plus Your World“ (SPYW) it took a big step toward becoming the company that everyone loves to hate. By integrating search results from the Google+ network into your regular search, plenty of people cried foul. And not just the ones working for Twitter and Facebook. By excluding results from other social networks, critics claim that Google is tampering wit...
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Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, the world laughs
06 Jan 2012 by Dave Parrack
I never thought I’d live to see the day Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter. But it’s happened. And it’s wildly entertaining watching the most-famous n00b in the world try to get his head around the micro-blogging social network. Long may it continue. Rupe Is No Dupe If a celebrity or famous face isn’t on Twitter then there will be an account either claiming to be them or openly ...
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BrandMyMail mashes your email and social networks together
23 Dec 2011 by Carl Natale
There are two types of email you can send: Text or HTML. Text is just the words. No colors. No photos. No layouts. HTML is basically a web page sent through email servers. For most of us, it really doesn’t matter when we send email. We just type, and the resulting HTML-formatted email is a mash-up of our words and whatever template comes with the email client. Now BrandMyMail will mash-up y...
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“Batch” is the ultimate mobile photo sharing app for iPhone
02 Dec 2011 by Brian Nelson
In the smart phone era, everyone is an amateur photographer. Equipped with high-def capabilities and nearly bottomless storage, we produce a lot of photos on a daily basis which we’ve opted to share individually on Twitter or in bulk on Facebook. The problem is that sharing full albums with friends requires a bit of effort — downloading to your desktop, uploading to Facebook — wh...
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A Challenger Appears: Chime.in Enters the Social Networking Ring
18 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
Bill Gross has been getting a lot of press lately. The serial entrepreneur and CEO of UberMedia masterminded keyword search advertising in the heydey of the dotcom era, a system Google has perfected to earn billions, but Gross now believes he’s onto a bright idea in the social network space — with Chime.in. In a territory saturated with household names like Facebook, Twitter, and ...
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Why Ashton Kutcher, aka “aplusk”, hates Twitter
17 Nov 2011 by Dave Parrack / 2 Comments
I can’t say I’ve ever been a particular fan of Ashton Kutcher. But his erroneous, ill-informed tweet and subsequent throwing of toys out of his Twitter-branded pram has me thinking he’s an absolute idiot. In a nutshell: Kutcher claims to have heard about the firing of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in passing without hearing the full facts. He tweeted in defense of Pa...
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Google+ Pages for Businesses — the Good and Bad
09 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
Google just announced that Google+ Pages for Businesses are here, finally allowing a flood of brands and celebrities to create yet another social network outlet for interacting with customers and fans. At a glance, Google+Pages is shockingly simple and seems to offer almost no difference from the standard profile all users get upon joining, but there are a few details that are bound to make things...
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Oink Has Arrived — Let the Social Ranking Experiment Begin
02 Nov 2011 by Brian Nelson
After Kevin Rose’s exit from Digg, he quickly formed a team with the goal of creating apps that would challenge the conventional social/mobile experience. He called his venture Milk, and less than a year later Oink is being unleashed among the masses. Oink is a social ranking app for the iPhone and web that encourages users to “rank the adventure” by rating things they encounter ...
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Diaspora Seeks Donations, PayPal Freezes Account
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
UPDATE: After some prodding and community outcry, PayPal released Diaspora’s account. Remember Diaspora? The group of NYU students that asked for $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to create a decentralized alternative to Facebook, and made headlines when they garnered a shocking $200,000 instead? Yeah, they’re still around, and to my surprise, they have some pretty cool stuff to show...
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Real-Time Search and Improved Hashtags Now Supported in Google+
24 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson
Vic Gundotra, the mind behind much of Google+, made a rare video appearance recently to show off two new features that will keep Facebook on its toes and probably elicit a disgusted groan from Twitter. Real-time search and improved support for hashtags will help Google+ contend with the established utility of Twitter by allowing users to see trending topics, as well one-up Facebook by supporting ...
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