August 2009
80 posts
YouTube Now Has Over 120 Million U.S. Viewers →
mashable:
YouTube’s been on a high-speed growth upswing. Last month, YouTube became the 4th most visited site on the web after it beat out Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN, with 85.1 million U.S….
Finding Free Stuff via Twitter Just Became Really... →
mashable:
Doesn’t it just feel great when you get stuff for free? Free t-shirts? I’ll take five. A contest to win a Macbook? I’m game. There’s even an eBay for free stuff now.
Still, finding…
marc:
According to Google, someone recently found my blog after searching for “hilllary clinton boogie diva”. Not sure what that’s all about.
USA Today: Are social networking sites making... →
inothernews:
College students say social networking makes them more narcissistic, a national survey reports today — and they also believe their generation is the most narcissistic of all.
That’s what a majority of 1,068 college students said when asked about narcissism in a poll on social networking sites in June by Ypulse.
More than half (57%) said their peers used social networking sites such...
Outed “Skanks of NYC” Blogger Plans to Sue Google... →
mashable:
Last week, a controversial court ruling forced Google to reveal the identity of a previously anonymous blogger, who had used the Internet as an outlet to trash a Canadian-born model…
TWEET IDEAS: 13 Things to Do on Twitter Besides... →
mashable:
Tired of delivering the typical stream of status updates on Twitter? Why not try some of the following ideas for other things you can do with the service?
Thanks to an open API and…
Social Media creates anxiety says TWU professor →
infoneernet:
Each spring, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Robert Doede, PhD, puts social media addiction to the test. For a 5% bonus credit his Philosophy 210 students are challenged to abstain from all social and traditional media throughout the three month semester and journal about their experiences. Only the strong succeed, giving up things like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, videogames,...
“URL-shorteners are bad for the Internet. They centralize linking, and make it...”
– How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News)
The whole article is insightful as usual.
(via marc)
Why 'Joe Facebook' wants to cash out →
caro:
The “stampede” into Facebook’s stock buyback program is not, in fact, evidence that 20-somethings are stupid and short-sighted.
Wolfram Alpha Has Grown a Lot. You Should Try it... →
mashable:
That, at least, is what Stephen Wolfram, founder of computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha, has tried to convince us in a lengthy post over at the official blog.
Personally,…
How does the internet see you? →
nerdgasms:
uichelle:
“Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at theMIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.”
My internet footprint is pretty big,...
Top 10 Facebook Songs on YouTube →
mashable:
Last month we brought you the Top 5 Twitter Songs on YouTube…but it’s not just the microblogging site that has earned musical tributes. With Facebook’s global audience and mainstream…
Frustrated tweets new headache for airlines | U.S.... →
continuum:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Indignant letters, e-mails and phone calls can still get results for unhappy airline travelers, but more are finding that if you really want to vent your frustrations, you can now be loud and fast and public.
Twitter Can Bury a Movie. It Can Also Make it a... →
mashable:
Remember Bruno? I’ve seen it, but I wish I had read the thousands of 140 character Twitter reviews that buried it, and convinced many moviegoers to skip it. The movie made 30 million…
