All Entries in the "Social Networking" Category
Mumbai Terror & the Media Role of Twitter
Like many people, I have been following and trying to understand the vicious attacks by terrorists in Mumbai. On one hand, the militants have struck at India’s tourist and financial heart, and have focused on killing or taking hostage foreign visitors, including Americans, British and Israelis. On the other hand … why?
There have been [...]
User Manual for Twitter
I am a convert. I have come to realize the enormous potential of Twitter as an online social networking tool. Twitter can be of tremendous value to anyone who recognizes the importance of sharing information and networking online among other people on various topics. In fact, it’s only limited by our own imaginations.
David [...]
Writing On the Wall For Old Media
See that blue line on the graph? The line that is flat-lining? That blue line represents jobs data for the TV news industry according to Simply Hired. Jobs in that industry are vanishing.
Even though I have written about the slow death of mainstream media for years, this chart visually showing the troubling trend of a [...]
ooVoo: Free Video Conferencing
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 [...]
Digital Revolution Began in the ’80s
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 [...]
Facebook: More Popular Than Porn
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 [...]
