...and we have a map to prove that. Italian writer, blogger and photographer Vincenzo Cosenza has for the second time put together a visualization that shows the most popular social networks around the world on a map, based on the most recent traffic data (December 2009) as measured by Alexa & Google Trends for...
You are on Twitter - now what? You are not Ashton Kutcher, so you don't automatically get a gazillion followers. You are not the New York Times, so still no crazy fan following. You are plain 'ol you - like me. Here's how regular folk like you and me can maximize Twitter's potential.
Sure, we all use Facebook well. We did put up pictures of the dumb pie we baked, or the loser concert we attended ... not to mention cutesy pictures of us at various parties to prove our popularity. We update our statuses religiously, add friends, spy on people's babies and smirk at dormant walls.
Considering everybody received the meme on Twitter and the gazillion ways it can be used to "save journalism" "aid journalism" and "wreck journalism" - here a case of Twitter gone wild in Alabama. The idea, as all ideas do, started off as a great one. Take a billboard with an ad for a local...
November 26th would mark the one year anniversary of the carnage in Mumbai last year, when armed gunmen from Pakistan rampaged through Mumbai indiscriminately shooting innocent people and taking two five-star hotels hostage. There was so much that was gruesome about that attack. The sheer brazenness, for one. The fact that someone could just...
If microblogging service Twitter doesn't bother you, then you have to have been living either under a rock or in a cave! For the last one year, the news has been "Twitter this, Twitter that!" And now, everybody please adjust your "new media mindset" to welcome a gadget that solely tweets, retweets and lets...
When my best friend was visiting, I got her a t-shirt that read "Sometimes when I am alone, I Google myself." In the early days of the search engine, that seemed like a really funny joke. But these days, googling yourself is not a mere vanity, it's almost essential, especially if you're looking...
Sure - we love free stuff! Free content on the web, unlimited videos on YouTube and season after season of Arrested Development on Hulu. So you can imagine how we got our knickers in a twist when we learnt that Hulu might start charging for its content. But Chadwick Matlin writes in The Big...