China believes they can clean up the Internet. Recent reports suggestion they can. The Chinese government shut down more than 60,000 porn sites, while checking nearly 2 million websites and arresting over 4,500 people, according to Reuters. Censorship opponents continually refer to the “Great Firewall” when speaking of China’s strong hold on Internet regulation. Even [...]
In the midst of Yahoo slashing jobs and AOL branching out in uncharted territory, Facebook has plans to keep the ball rolling. At a Bay Area start up summit, Manager of Corporate Development Michael Brown, made mention of the company’s 2011 strategy. . .with a few few surprises. Well, that’s what some living in a [...]
As the war heats up for the hearts and minds of Internet lovers… Google has made it clear: we mean business. At least to Facebook anyway. Facebook users will no longer be able to access their Gmail contacts from the popular social networking site – regardless if they give prior approval. Basically, what we are [...]
What comes to mind when you hear 500? Whether it’s 500 – 500,000 – 500,000,000 or 500 (insert desired digits)…it is a rather strong number. Five is five from zero and five from ten. Go think about that for a while. When someone asks you, how long will X task take…your standard answer? Five minutes. [...]
I’ve been hearing a bunch of talk the past few days about “Facebook Taking Over Google”….or “Facebook is the New Search Engine.” This kind of talk is pointless. Yes, it’s fun for fellow bloggers to discuss the advances Facebook is making in search. Let’s be clear though: the social networking giant is nowhere close to [...]
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues his latest privacy and “we screwed up” tour, tech watchers and average users of the Internet are beginning to doubt the social media giant’s motives. In his own words, the 26-year old chief exec says they “missed the mark” with their latest stab at privacy controls and is pledging [...]
Ever since Facebook decided to ditch the “Become a Fan” and “Join” buttons in favor of a standard “Like” option, the more I think they are expending unnecessary energy in tweaking a pointless feature. To put it bluntly: I don’t think most Facebookers care about what you and I think. The majority of users don’t [...]
My grandfather told me a story about the day TV started to “air” on the military base where he was serving. In the story he describes how during the summer time of the 1950′s, family’s would collectively be in the streets engaging in activities like grilling, riding bicycles, visiting with each other etc. He paints [...]
