Tag Archives: social networking

80,000 Suckers Fired Off Tweets Celebrating LinkedIn Spam

Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. More »


80,000 Suckers Fired Off Tweets Celebrating LinkedIn Spam

Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. More »


The Single Dumbest Way People Are Using Vine

So Vine is out, and its "Instagram for Video" schtick is novel, but it's going to take a while for people to get the hang of it. We know that because instead of showing us the world, animated, so far everyone is just showing us... what's on their desks. More »


Court Says You Can’t Ban Sex Offenders From Social Networks

The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an Indiana law, which bans sex offenders from using social networking sites just because children are on them, is unconstitutional. More »


Court Says You Can’t Ban Sex Offenders From Social Networks

The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an Indiana law, which bans sex offenders from using social networking sites just because children are on them, is unconstitutional. More »


What Do You Think of People Without Facebook Accounts?

Social networking is great and all, but you can't really fault anyone for not buying into it. Unless, of course, you're talking about Facebook. Everybody has a Facebook, except for the people who don't, and they tend to be few and far between. More »


Iran’s Developing “Intelligent Software” For Censoring Social Networks

Iran isn't exactly a huge fan of the Internet. That's why it attempted to cut off Google services for all its citizens, and came up with its own state-sponsored alternative to YouTube. Now's it's working on a solution for social networks: intelligent censorship software. More »


Flickr is Going Free for Three Months to Entice the Instagram Deserters

Marissa Mayer and the folks at Yahoo! have a nice little gift for you this holiday season: free Pro Flickr for three months for any and all users, old and new. Surely this is just all in the spirit of holiday cheer and has nothing to do with cleverly making use of another image-sharing service's TOS debacle, right? Right?! More »


Flickr is Going Free for Three Months to Entice Instagram Deserters

Marissa Mayer and the folks at Yahoo! have a nice little gift for you this holiday season: free Pro Flickr for three months for any and all users, old and new. Surely this is just all in the spirit of holiday cheer and has nothing to do with cleverly making use of another image-sharing service's TOS debacle, right? Right?! More »


Zuckerberg Predicts We’ll All Be Sharing 1,000 Times as Much Crap 10 Years From Now

If you thought people were already sharing way too much on social networks, you're in for a rough future. At least, that's what your buddy Mark Zuckerberg thinks, and it's probably safe to say he's might know what he's talking about. More &#...