Well, imminent for the general population… I’m already having convulsions. Today, in a blog post, Facebook announced they’ve reached the 300 million user landmark. It was less than six months ago that the company hit 200 million. They’ve also gone from struggling to monetize to “succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way.” In fact, [...]
[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]
Early this morning, Twitter dropped off the face of the Internet for a couple of hours. When I noticed the distinct lack of chatter I went to see if anyone was still awake on Facebook. That wasn’t loading either. I started wondering if maybe both had gone down simultaneously, since I still had data streaming [...]
Treating social-networking sites or services such as Facebook and Twitter as nothing more than tools may get your clients a modest amount of pageviews, but it’s really only making you the telemarketers of the Internet. That’s it. Nothing more.
Sometime recently this message began popping up whenever a user visits the Facebook Ads section of their Facebook Privacy Settings. It’s dressed up to be some sort of reassurance to paranoid individuals, but to me it looks like a blatant insult to anyone aware of the original issue, as well as a statement calling myself [...]
I’m not about to lie to you. Google Wave gets me so excited that I feel like a schoolgirl. I’ve never even been a schoolgirl before, so that’s an odd feeling. Wave’s like that. So it’s not difficult to imagine how giddy I was when Mashable posted about Google’s surprise blog update that actually named [...]