In order to get God’s attention, my Polish grandmother used to cross herself. He wouldn’t listen, she said, unless she tapped the fingertips of her right hand systematically against her forehead, chest, left and right shoulders – in that order. This was the required pattern. It was God’s phone number, effectively. But nowadays it’s even [...]
After recently falling behind Facebook in terms of users and page views, MySpace‘s reputation has taken another hit. This week they released the names of over 90,000 registered sex offenders who had profiles on their website. Ouch. They were subpoenaed to disclose this information after a report put out in January by the Internet Safety [...]
Money, money, money! It’s all we seem to talk about these days. But don’t worry guys, Facebook could save us from the depression. The online network’s top execs put on their suits and ties last week for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where they showed international experts just how good they could be for [...]
Pop culture’s latest rap-rock disaster hit the web this week, as Lil Wayne teamed up with AT&T to release his new single via Facebook. Although the track ended up leaking online over the weekend, the hip-hop star performed the single for the first time in a live feed on the website Wednesday night. The live video [...]
What do birthday parties and heated anti-Israel demonstrations have in common? They can both, fairly easily, be organized as Facebook events. This was proven in a recent New York Times article that looked into the use of social networking websites by young activists as a tool for gathering support for political causes and for planning [...]
Forget about phoning your mom. In today’s social media-saturated world, the first thing you need to do when you get engaged is update your Facebook status. It’s not only your friends and family that hear the big news. It’s the whole wedding industry. As soon as the word “engaged” appears on your Facebook wall, so [...]
By Jesse W Kline Some of Canada’s smaller political parties are not taking full advantage of social networking strategies to get their message out to voters this federal election due to a lack of resources – despite the fact that the net is a cheap way to reach voters. TheThunderbird.ca carried out a survey of [...]
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