Two Aussie girls got lost in a storm drain. Solution? Post an update on Facebook via mobile phone. The thought of using the phone to call Australia’s version of 911 apparently never occurred to them.
Fortunately, it worked — this time. But what if none of their friends had been logged in at that time? What [...]
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Urgent distress call sent to Facebook friends. Phone broken? No, they used the phone to send it
Latest Facebook lawsuit alleges site exists only to snoop on you and sell the information
Five users of Facebook recently filed a lawsuit against Facebook, alleging that the true purpose of the site is to collect information about consumers “in the most innocuous way possible” and sell it to third parties. While it’s doubtful that the suit will gain much traction, the litigants’ analysis of the Facebook business model is [...]
Testing the effectiveness of Linked In group discussions
A few weeks back there was a discussion in a Linked In group for e-marketers in which the initiator complained about people who start topics ostensibly to have a substantive discussion, but it’s actually an attempt to promote their services – usually consulting of some kind or another. Anyone who’s spent any time in Linked [...]
Another popular blogger gets fired
PittGirl, an anonymous blogger and vocal critic of local government in Pittsburgh, revealed her identity when she realized readers were getting close to figuring it out.
And the non-profit where she worked canned her. The reason? In her words, they “didn’t need the distraction.”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/21/outing.anonymous.bloggers/
40% of Twitter traffic is worthless tripe, study says
Pear Analytics of San Antonio studied 2,000 tweets and broke them down into categories. They classified 40 percent of the tweets as “pointless babble.” Only 3.75 percent of tweets were designated spam, which shows only that they have a much narrower definition of the term spam than I do. Read Pear’s announcement of the study.
Are recommendations on Linked In worth anything?
There’s a lot to like about Linked In. For one thing, it’s a social networking site with a specific purpose beyond time wasting: finding a better job. For another, it has so far avoided the clutter and chaos of MySpace and Facebook (though I’m not sure how long that will last.)
But there’s one feature on [...]
The state of friendship in a world of social media
As a writer I can’t help noticing how technology’s continuing advance into every aspect of our daily lives is inluencing how we think and talk. I’m intrigued by the changes in our language even from a short time ago. Not only are new technology-spawned words entering the lexicon, but existing words are gaining new meanings. [...]
Smooth career moves by Twitter users
Enjoy this survey of career-enhancing information helpfully shared with the world on Twitter. On Resume Bear.
Should we let recruiters we’re interviewing with see our Linked In pages?
Recently I was contacted by a local company that had located me online somehow, whether through Facebook or Twitter, I’m not sure. They wanted me to interview for a web development position. The position was pretty similar to my current one and I wasn’t really looking to move, but I agreed to interview. If nothing [...]
Facebook quizzes: Fun, but not so innocent
If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on Facebook, you’ve most likely been inundated with posts from friends announcing the fascinating result of a survey they’ve just completed, along with an invitation to participate in the same survey and announce what you found out to the world.
This can be a lot of fun. The [...]