Social Networks

If Zuckerberg Is Smart Facebook Will Acquire Diaspora

by Jeff Weisbein July 21, 2010
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Facebook just officially announced that they have reached 500 million users.  Diaspora is currently in pre-alpha stages, but as we wrote, it definitely has some potential to revolutionize privacy.  Even Mark Zuckerberg reportedly pledged money to the Diaspora project.  That’s great and all, but will Diaspora really catch on?  Even if it does gain some [...]

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Diaspora: Revolutionizing Privacy

by Guest Author July 15, 2010
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This article was written by Sam Phippen, who is a 19 year old computer science student at the University of Bristol in the UK.  You can visit him on the web at teaisaweso.me. I genuinely believe that Diaspora is the future of social networking, and you should too. Here’s why: at the moment your interactions [...]

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Can Someone Explain the Q&A Craze?

by Jeff Weisbein July 3, 2010
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I really want to know what’s up with the sudden interest in Q&A type sites?  Once upon a time, there was Yahoo Answers, a site run by Yahoo which let users ask questions and receive answers from other users.  Which to me, always seemed like nothing more then an Internet forum, such as the one [...]

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Privacy Wars: Google Me vs Facebook

by Jeff Weisbein June 29, 2010
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Apparently, Google is working on their own social network modeled off of Facebook.  The name?  Google Me.  Is it real?  According to a tweet (since removed) by Kevin Rose (CEO of Digg) it seems likely.  Additional insight has come from Adam D’Angelo, former Facebook CTO, in his post on Quora (his latest venture), where he [...]

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The Internet Will Revolve Around Facebook

by Jeff Weisbein April 25, 2010
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Give it another couple of years and you may find yourself saying “Facebook it”, perhaps it won’t have the connotation as to “Google it”, but it will be just as powerful.  In the recent introduction of Community Pages and the latest news we heard from the f8 Conference this past week it is now more apparent then [...]

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How To: Update Your Status Messages Across Multiple Social Networks

by Jeff Weisbein October 11, 2009
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Ping.fm is a service I have been using for quite some time now.  The idea of the service is simple – update your status message on every social network you are a part of.  No longer do you have to manually login to each user account and update your status at each individual site, which [...]

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Digsby Partners With MySpace And OneRiot

by Jeff Weisbein August 12, 2009
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Today, Digsby is announcing a partnership with MySpace and OneRiot to bring real-time social activity to the desktop. “People want instant access to the content their friends are sharing,” said Steve Shapiro, president of dotSyntax, “Our partnerships make Digsby the premier desktop client to discover and participate in social conversations that are taking place right [...]

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Digsby Passes 1 Million Users

by Jeff Weisbein July 24, 2009
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Digsby the multi-protocol IM client which allows you to connect to various instant messenger platforms such as AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, email services such as Gmail, as well as a number of social networking services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace has passed the 1 million user mark.  According to the press release from Digsby [...]

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Are You Being Heard On Twitter? Probably Not.

by Jeff Weisbein July 10, 2009
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People all over the web are praising Twitter and the power and potential of retweeting and I’m not going to lie, I think Twitter is great (I praised it here for helping me spread the word).  I use it to connect with people and push content all the time, but lets be real here are [...]

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Couldn’t Get Your Dream Facebook Vanity URL? Here’s Two Alternatives

by Jeff Weisbein June 25, 2009
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The Facebook Vanity URL Goldrush of 2009 has left many Facebook users without their dream URL or variations thereof.  Whether you just weren’t quick enough to grab your username or perhaps you have the same name as a Facebook employee or high-profile journalist here are two alternative ways to obtain a shorter and more memorable [...]

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