This one’s so nuts, I thought I was reading an excerpt from a wacky novel for a moment there. You know that little side area on Facebook that suggests people you might know? Well, that “helpful” referral area lead to disaster for corrections officer Alan O’Neill when his current wife’s face showed up in the sidebar of another woman… who just so happened to be his first wife! Not ex-...
The Academy Awards weekend is coming, and you know what that means: Joan Rivers’ scathing red-carpet commentary, lame musical numbers and a scene so thick with plastic artificiality that Mattel should seriously consider becoming a sponsor. And in between, a few awards get doled out, as each announcement compels all the other snubbed actors to turn in their real Oscar-worthy performances...
What would you do with yourself if you disconnected from tech communication for three months? I'm not just talking about Facebook (though that's a biggie) — I mean going totally off the online grid, with no email, no texting, no Google Plus or Twitter or even Spotify, or any other form of sharing or messaging. And yes, definitely no wall posts or "liking" anything. That's what 24-year-...
You'd think that, when it comes to finding local information, nothing can replace recommendations from friends and contacts, right? And yet, according to The Pew Internet & American Life Project, most people don't turn to Twitter or Facebook for referrals to businesses. They do tap the good old interwebs for info on restaurants, bars and the like — "they" making up a whopping 51...
From Jon Rettinger, President of TechnoBuffalo LLC As many of you are aware, TechnoBuffalo’s Editor-at-Large Noah Kravitz is currently engaged in a legal dispute with his former employer PhoneDog Media (PhoneDog) regarding ownership of his Twitter account. PhoneDog is suing Noah based on their valuation of his Twitter followers at the time he stopped working for them: $2.50 per month...
When GigaOM held its recent Roadmap conference in San Francisco, a number of tech visionaries were in attendance, weighing in on what the future of technology might hold. During this event, there was one theme that seemed to recur: That technology will advance and evolve to a point when computing as we know it will disappear. Not that it will cease to exist, but rather, that it'll...
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It’s no secret that women are the power users when it comes to social media. But are their topics of choice actually any different than those of men? Yes, says a study from Proust.com, a social media hub geared specifically for families and close personal friends. Users on Proust asked their loved ones a range of questions via the website, and then the results — based on gender and how...
Though perhaps a bit premature, Facebook has just published its "Most Shared Articles" for 2011. (Really? The year's not even over yet…) So what can we learn from this list of 40 articles that have set the social webs abuzz? Well, maybe that the death of traditional media outlets has been greatly exaggerated, considering that CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times all loom...
So much for the stereotype about kids and their lack of concern for online privacy. Turns out, more than half are actually pretty discerning regarding what they post about themselves, says Pew Internet & American Life Project. According to its new report, as many as 55 percent of young people are selective about they share online — particuarly when it comes to things that could...
Perhaps you never caught the TV show Rubicon before AMC yanked it off the air. I actually enjoyed its brain-teasing, intellectual twists and turns — not that I fully understood everything, but this world of intrigue was still fascinating. In this place, innocuous-looking public messages were never what they seemed, and the idea that such evil could be harbored like this — often in plain...