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  • Google to introduce potential Twitter/Facebook competition

    Google’s Gmail has been the king of e-mail for several years now. But new means of communication through social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have eliminated a lot of the social communication that e-mail once had. Let’s all be honest it’s 10x easier to DM your friend on Facebook and Twitter because you are already on them and it doesn’t require you to look at all of the work in your inbox. However, it…

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  • Nearly 200 million people a day log on to Facebook

    Facebook has doubled in size in the last year, boasting a whopping 350 million registered users, and what’s even more impressive is that fully half…

  • Is your Twitter account safe?

    Several Twitter users have reported that their accounts have been locked out of Twitter, and are forced to perform a password change. They have received…

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How To Get the Most Out of Twitter

by Sue Walsh on Jan 30, 2010 at 02:02 PM

Twitter’s popularity continues to grow as more and more people discover what a fun and useful tool it can be. Many companies now use it for both promotion and customer service, while individuals use it to network and stay in touch. To get the most out of Twitter, here are… Continue Reading »

Republicans to host “Mobile-Chat” during State of Union speech

by JG Mason on Jan 26, 2010 at 11:26 AM

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Geo-location meets the Dating Game: Urban Signals smartphone app

by JG Mason on Jan 25, 2010 at 05:35 PM

Many folks navigate the urban landscape with their heads down, interacting with the smartphone.  Now thanks to Urban Singles, those folks might be scanning the area for dates that meet their profile in a mash up of geo-location, online-dating, and social networking.  It seems the day when you could walk… Continue Reading »

Tweets from space!

by Greg Billetdeaux on Jan 22, 2010 at 06:51 PM

Well, Twitter can officially say now that it is not just restricted to Planet Earth. Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer used the new upgrade to the space station to directly update his Twitter status on the International Space Station. Their had been tweets before that had been emailed down to Earth… Continue Reading »

Foursquare releases BlackBerry app

by Sue Walsh on Jan 22, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Social networking game Foursquare has released an app for BlackBerry smartphones. The object of the game is to get out and explore your city, “checking in with certain landmarks along the way. The more you do the more points you get, and you also start unlocking badges and have a… Continue Reading »

Twitter back online, blames a “sudden failure” for outage

by Sue Walsh on Jan 20, 2010 at 04:01 PM

Twitter is back up and returning to normal following a service disruption that knocked the site offline for nearly 2 hours earlier this morning. Twitter’s official blog had this to say about the incident: We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales.  Our on-call team… Continue Reading »

Twitter users wake up to the “Fail Whale”

by Sue Walsh on Jan 20, 2010 at 07:10 AM

Twitter users hoping to get their fix over breakfast discovered the site was down-and as of 7:15am Eastern. Anyone trying to access the site gets what many users dub “the Fail Whale” a page announcing “Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.” All… Continue Reading »

AT&T corrects Mobile Facebook login problems

by Robert Nelson on Jan 19, 2010 at 01:41 PM

Just before last weekend started, it was discovered that some people were able to login to others Facebook accounts due to some “routing problem” with AT&T. It seems that at least some users were able to login and view the Facebook account of total strangers. According to AT&T; “In a… Continue Reading »

Man arrested after joke posted on Twitter backfires

by Sue Walsh on Jan 19, 2010 at 07:59 AM

A UK man learned the hard way that what you say on Twitter, even in jest, can come back to haunt you. Upon learning the local airport was closed, Paul Chambers posted on Twitter in fit of annoyance thinking is trip to Ireland might be in jeopardy. ‘C**p! Robin Hood… Continue Reading »

Facebook Users View 662 Pages a Month

by Hunter Clarke on Jan 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM

A recent chart compiled by Business Insider confirms the fact that Facebook is completely dominating all other Social Networks. Nearly doubling Hi5, an average Facebook user views 662 pages a month. While it is not surprising that people interact the most with the largest social network in the world, the… Continue Reading »

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