There seems to be a lot of buzz on the Internet about the concern for privacy with the new location based services on social networking services.  I think a lot of this is a little blown out of proportion.  Several months ago a service called Foursquare came on the scene where you could download applications [...]

A good lesson can be learned about keeping your social media posts separate.  I mean it it not necessarily a good idea to import all your Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. together.  I cannot say much about how other people operate online but with me it seems like despite my not being into Facebook, most everyone [...]

Where a person focuses their energy with respect to their online presence has been a point of contention with all of the social networking sites.  Let’s be honest.  I am the world’s worst about signing up for virtually everything on the Internet.  I am always trying out the newest toy and looking for the best [...]

  I ran across this video that someone shared on Google Buzz this evening.  It is pretty eye opening about how fast these social networking sites have proliferated.  I can remember just about a year ago, Facebook had around 200 million members.  About three months ago I heard they had 400 million users.  Just this [...]

For those that have been paying attention to technical web sites the last few days, there seems to be an orchestrated effort to turn everyone against Facebook. This will not work though this will not stop them from trying.  This Facebook is evil thing we have been hearing revolves around Facebook’s constantly changing privacy rules.  [...]

It was brought to my attention this evening that my blog was down.  Actually I knew it for a couple days because my browser defaults to this page.  Since we have had other priorities with working on the house, the web site took a back seat.  It was an easy fix and only had a [...]

  How appropriate on this Halloween that I have 666 followers on my Twitter.  Although that is just a coincidence, it is a little creepy.  If you look at the top right of the photo above you can see where I circled it. Last night I noticed this and asked for one more person to [...]

A question that I hear frequently is “Which is better, Facebook, or Twitter?”  I do not think this is the proper question to be asking because they complement each other.  In fact Twitter by itself may seem less useful although I disagree.  It is the ability to use Twitter with Facebook and other social networking [...]

I took the Twitter activity sidebar off the right side of this blog and replaced it with the Friendfeed sidebar.  This is because every time I send a Twitter message, it goes to the Friendfeed anyway.  Secondly, any time I send a Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, Youtube video, it also goes to Friendfeed.  I figure this [...]

With all the news lately about Facebook purchasing Friendfeed last week and everyone saying they were going to go to Google Reader I thought I would move some stuff.  For the last week we have been hearing “Friendfeed is dead” to a point that it is ridiculous.  The truth is that Friendfeed is NOT dead [...]