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I don’t have any idea why this was launched nearly a month ago and I am just finding it, but I think Facebook Chat is a pretty cool idea… and NOT because it’s “CHAT”. Nevermind that TechCrunch somehow...
View ArticleBrightKite Helps You Make IRL Friends
My initial way to explain BrightKite is that it’s like Twitter (what you’re doing) + Location (Where you’re doing it), which I like. I am trying to determine how to use it (mainly because I use Verizon...
View ArticleRe: LinkedIn, Reloaded
I just finished listening to a great podcast (as usual) from Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio with Shally Steckerl, the guru of LinkedIn gurus. The cast, called LinkedIn, Reloaded, explores some...
View ArticleFollow Policy: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, et al.
Social networks are powerful, meaningful tools I have had the opportunity to leverage we ll for personal and professional benefit. Just last week I was trying to find good camping locations and...
View ArticleNavigating Facebook's Privacy Settings; New Privacy Policy Longer than...
No wonder you have a Supreme-Court-sized headache trying to get your Facebook privacy settings squared away. It’s apparently harder to stay private on Facebook than to create a country. More than 50...
View ArticlePrediction: PHILO Will Be Huge
Getting sucked into a mini-series may be cool especially when you can gloat around the watercooler about the 67 hours of life you lost watching a TV show. But spring-boarding from the success of...
View ArticleImport Contact Profile Photos into Android from Gravatar
Wouldn’t it be great to automagically have user-icons for new contacts in your android device? I thought so, and gladly found an app (in Alpha for now) that scans your address book and adds Gravatars...
View ArticlePaul Buchheit, Gmail Inventor, Leaves Facebook For Y Combinator
ReadWriteWeb, SocialBeat and others are reporting the departure of Gmail creator from Facebook to Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup incubator. Update 11/15/2010: The LA Times speaks with Paul...
View ArticleUtah Company Overstock #8 Best Place to Work
Noted by the New York Times, local Utah company Overstock scored #8 on Glassdoor’s best places to work list, as voted by its presumed employees (there is no validation/verification of these scores)....
View ArticleMap of the World by Friends
How would the world look if geographies were defined by relationships? Facebook "super intern" Paul Butler wanted to know and created this amazing image of the planet based on facebook relationships....
View ArticleTaco Bell: Free Beef Tacos to Facebook Likers
Taco Bell has turned a class action lawsuit about the beef in its food into a Facebook marketing campaign. The restaurant chain is giving away 10 million free beef tacos to Facebook "likers" who...
View ArticleWe have too few women leaders
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, spoke at TED about the reality of what limits women in leadership. All of us need to internalize her message and share this with our colleagues, mothers, sisters, and...
View ArticleSocial Media Encourages Us to Be 'Alone Together'
“Some experts believe that Facebook, endless texting and other activities that keep kids “connected” actually add to a major disconnect that is hard on those who have depression”Shutterstock “…The very...
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