It’s quite literally the battle of the titans. Facebook vs Google and the race seems to be getting edgier. January data released on compete.com now shows that the social networking site Facebook had a whopping 134 unique visitors in January. Fb seems to be galloping ahead, collecting not just eyeballs but also engaging its...
...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...
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.
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...
No! No! That is not the word of the year..but the word of the year IS a big disappointment! The New Oxford American Dictionary has a quaint tradition of naming its "Word of the Year" and 2009's dubious winner is "Unfriend" - as in "unfriend" someone from Facebook.
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...