Come Saturday, June 13 at exactly 12:01 pm, expect the Facebook site to slow down a bit when you log in to your Facebook profile. Most Facebook fanatics will probably busy by then trying to beat each other out in getting their vanity Facebook profiles. [Read more…] about Facebook Vanity URLs Coming Soon
What Has Become of Twitter as a Communication/Connection Medium?
I’m sorry for covering Twitter again after our feature about the Twitter Verified Accounts. But this is too good of a discussion point to make a pass on. While various data are pointing different trends with regards to Twitter’s growth, a particular Harvard study pointed an interesting fact – that amidst its growing userbase, more than half of these users update their profile less than once every 74 days. [Read more…] about What Has Become of Twitter as a Communication/Connection Medium?
Twitter to Implement Verified Account for Celebrity Profiles
Recently, Twitter had to face a lawsuit filed by St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa relating a bogus profile created on Twitter impersonating the La Russa. When the issue was brought to Twitter’s attention, the Twitter team immediately took action and cancelled the account. And as far as the Twitter management is concern, they have done their part and ensured that the said violation of Twitter’s TOS was immediately uphold. Hence, Twitter is not paying any settlement fees to La Russa nor does they have any plans of paying anytime soon. [Read more…] about Twitter to Implement Verified Account for Celebrity Profiles
Yahoo! Mail Now Has More Useful 3rd-Party Apps
Yahoo is “supercharging” its web mail services by launching more useful apps coming from third party providers. Starting today, all U.S.-based Yahoo! Mail users who have the option to add web apps and tools such as PayPal, Zumo Drive, Picnik, OtherInbox and Photobucket. This is in addition to the previous apps introduced earlier this year – XoopIt, Flickr, and Flixster. [Read more…] about Yahoo! Mail Now Has More Useful 3rd-Party Apps
Some Social Networking Stats to Ponder On
Nielsen is running some nice analysis of April 2009 stats collated by the firm about top social networking sites. Particularly, these stats point to the total minutes that users spent on top social networking sites, time spent on video streams, and the more specific unique visitors composition index for MySpace and Facebook. [Read more…] about Some Social Networking Stats to Ponder On
Google Docs Now Supports Microsoft Word, Excel 2007 Files
One of Google’s web products that I use most often is Google Docs. This Document processing tool allows me to work/write articles “in the cloud”. For those of you who are hesitant to use Google Docs since its didn’t support uploading of your Excel or Word 97 files, well you would be glad to know that Google Docs has started to do so now. [Read more…] about Google Docs Now Supports Microsoft Word, Excel 2007 Files