Social Networking

A new company called ooVoo is offering a free way to video conference with your friends with your computer’s video camera. Mac users have had a capability like this for a while but ooVoo works with both Mac and Windows machines.

I am going to be test driving it and will report back on what it’s like. Your comments are always welcome.

I love this blog posting by Mark Cuban. It reminded me that in 1980, I was learning to write code for the Apple II+ without having any idea what I was doing, exchanging messages over a dial-up connection at 300 baud and calling the Woz for help.

By the way … when I got an Apple “green” display, I thought I was really cool!

That’s the actual headline from TIME — “Facebook: More Popular Than Porn.” I think that’s a good thing even though a friend emailed to say that he’s going to start reading Newsweek.

Certainly for social networking among family, friends, business associates and colleagues, there is nothing quite as popular or user-friendly as Facebook.

I was on a conference panel last Friday with Jim Brady of The Washington Post, who said that public relations people should use Facebook to communicate with journalists and bloggers. He is absolutely right!