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Cyberscams Befriend Social Networks
Now those phony Nigerians may log on as your “friend.” How Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networking sites are fighting a rise in scams
Remember the associate of that deposed dictator who needed your help transferring a few million dollars from a Swiss bank account? Well, he’s back. And he—or one of his ilk—may show [...]
Use Googles Grand Central on a Mac
Maybe you’re a fan of Google’s Grand Central phone controller. Maybe you also happen to be a Mac addict. So how do you match those two loves into one? Vocito, that’s how.
Savvy to your Mac OS X desktop and things like Address Book, Automator, and the third-party engineered QuickSilver, Vocito manages your management of the [...]
Just What is Social Media, Exactly?
What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word? This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm’s company blog.
They say it is disingenuous to call any of the various things we in the punditry business refer [...]
Mint SMS: Monitor Your Finances On the Go
Personal finance service Mint has added a new feature for those who simply have to know what their entire net worth is in every imaginable situation. Users can send a text message containing the words “Balance” or “Bal” to shortcode “MyMint” (696468) and they’ll receive info for savings, credit, and loans they’re tracking on Mint.
The [...]
Monitoring Your Web Site
If the performance monitoring tool you use only tells you what’s happening on your Web site when users are there, your site could go unmonitored for a significant portion of the day. How would you know if your network provider was down for 45 minutes last night? What will have happened to the customers who [...]
Why Obama Should Keep His BlackBerry
The news over the weekend was full of stories about (the AP’s, for example) how Barack Obama will have to give up his beloved BlackBerry once he enters the White house. While I can see why he might choose to, I cannot fathom why he would have to.
The best reason for letting go of of [...]
Jerry Yang to Step Down As Yahoo CEO; Will Microsoft Return?
Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a successor is found, the embattled Internet company just announced. The release (quoted in full after the jump, along with Yang’s memo to the troops) came shortly after the blog Boomtown broke the news.
The move may well prompt Microsoft, whose repeated [...]
Facebook Destroys Lucrative Birthday Reminder Industry
Facebook just added another extremely useful feature for users, and in doing so took out a slew of applications that do that same thing. You can now get a weekly email telling you, simply, which friends have birthdays coming up.
That’s good news for all of us who want more birthday information. It’s bad news for [...]
ONEsite Launches Proprietary Social Ad Platform
White label social networking software maker ONEsite is launching its very own advertising platform InteractAd today, essentially declaring traditional online advertising is past its prime and that it’s time for social advertising to take its place.
Flash Is Now A Platform, AIR Gets An Upgrade, And Adobe Puts A Catalyst In Gumbo
Realizing that Flash is a better name than Flex for a platform, Adobe is now referring to everything it does related to Flash (including the Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Flex developer tools, and Flash media servers) as the Flash Platform. That’s what I’ve been calling it anyway, so I’m glad they finally caught up.
Beyond [...]
