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EU Tightens Rule on Social Network Privacy

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The European Union is set to implement some operating guidelines for companies and their social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace and others. The new regulation is aimed at ensuring that companies who operate these social networks comply with privacy laws. More particularly, the EU would like to ensure that these sites do not use and distribute personal information divulged by individuals without consent. [Read more…] about EU Tightens Rule on Social Network Privacy

Originally posted on June 24, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

Bloggers Beware: The FTC Would Soon Be Watching Us

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Has blogging became such a profitable business that the FTC is now paying attention as to whether bloggers are getting paid for reviewing products? According to an Associate Press report, the FTC will soon be issuing guidelines stating that the FTC could go after bloggers for failing to disclose that they are being paid for product/service reviews. Now, I’m scared. [Read more…] about Bloggers Beware: The FTC Would Soon Be Watching Us

Originally posted on June 22, 2009 @ 2:48 pm

Amazon Releases the Kindle DX, 3 Important New Features and Useful Links

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Alright, the biggest news this week has got to be none other than the release of the bigger Amazon Kindle DX. By bigger we mean a 9-inch display for your e-book reading pleasure.  Many has predicted this to happen as early as Monday.  And expectedly there was pandemonium in the tech blogosphere as soon as Amazon’s official release statement came out.  But while everyone is going crazy (or not) about the new Kindle DX, somewhere at the sideline, Sony almost unnoticingly announced that it was making some Danielle Steele romance titles on their own e-book reader.   [Read more…] about Amazon Releases the Kindle DX, 3 Important New Features and Useful Links

Originally posted on May 7, 2009 @ 2:51 pm

Yahoo to Shut Down Geocities, Long Live Geocities!

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For those who grew up in the Internet during the 1990’s, Geocities would certainly ring a bell.  Back then, Geocities was the closest thing you can get to have an online presence and a social community.  I’m feeling a bit nostalgic right now as I remember the several Geocities account I created which died a natural death. Speaking of death, that is where Geocities is heading as Yahoo is quietly announcing that it will be shutting down the service soon. Quite interestingly, just as Geocities has become a dormant service, Yahoo is also quietly disclosing its plan to discontinue Geocities.  In fact if you’re not going to visit the Geocities landing page at geocities.yahoo.com, you wouldn’t know that it is going to the dead pool this year. [Read more…] about Yahoo to Shut Down Geocities, Long Live Geocities!

Originally posted on April 23, 2009 @ 9:19 pm

Signs of the Times: Book Catalog in Twitter and a Social Media Degree?

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I was supposed to write only about the one-year course  specializing on social media but then I also came across this article re a book  catalog using Twitter.  So decided to write an article about them together as it clearly shows how social media is becoming a way of life today. [Read more…] about Signs of the Times: Book Catalog in Twitter and a Social Media Degree?

Originally posted on March 30, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

iGoogle’s Video Game Inspired Themes are Awesome

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Do you use iGoogle as your browser’s start page? Or if not, are you using it as an RSS feed reader?  Well regardless of whatever purposes you use iGoogle for as long as you use it regularly, you’d be glad to know that you can now change those boring themes/skins into something cool. As in video game-inspired kind of cool themes. [Read more…] about iGoogle’s Video Game Inspired Themes are Awesome

Originally posted on March 26, 2009 @ 12:45 pm