Posts in "Opinion"

Feeding the World Through Social Media

I’ve been trying to write here for a couple of hours now but was distracted by the repetitive Christmas music drifting in from outside. Luckily they played the song “feed the world…don’t they know it’s Christmas time…feed the world…” I don’t know the title of the song and have no plans of Googling it up. [...]

Fortune 100 CEOs No Social Media Presence

UberCEO reported the other day that CEOs of top companies don’t seem to be interested in social media. They gathered data about this year’s Fortune 100 CEO and came up with the following results: Only two CEOs have Twitter accounts. 13 CEOs have LinkedIn profiles, and of those only three have more than 10 connections. [...]

Social Media Changes In 2009

Social media here, social media there – we have been hearing this term so much in the past year but this year brings more exciting changes that we should all look forward to. I was reading an article by Gary Woodill on this exact topic and I found myself nodding in agreement as I read [...]

Online Advertising Just Got More Crowded

We have been hearing that if you want to earn or do business today, the money is in online advertising. This covers areas of advertising towards the Internet market as well as earning from online advertising. But while many enjoyed ease as far as earning from advertising programs like Google Adsense or affiliations with companies [...]

Twitter Making Raves and Waves

Why would you want to follow someone on the web? Such has been the new concept given to us by Twitter which has been gaining ground both for good and bad circumstances. What makes twitter different? Well for one, you can avoid the usually long blog posts that really make no sense. Normally, there are [...]

Facebook Feature Request: Batch Delete App Invites

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by invitations from friends on Facebook asking you to try new apps? Especially if you’ve got a huge friends list, you might be plagued by that problem, as is my pal Andy Wibbels, who says: I have over ninety invites from friends to add little widgets and thingies to my [...]

Who Are The Most Web 2.0 Savvy Presidential Candidates?

Social platforms are playing a huge role in the political world, both for the voters trying to gather information or express opinions, and also for candidates who wish to get their two cents out to their younger, web savvy constituents. No longer can anyone use the excuse “I didn’t vote because I didn’t have enough [...]

International Delete Your MySpace Account Day is Jan 30!

Simon Owens has had it with MySpace and has declared January 30 “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”. If you’ve experiences the annoyances of MySpace, you probably don’t need much convincing to delete your account, but in case you’re still teetering on the verge, Simon’s outlined his main motivators for giving MySpace the boot:

The Growing Social Search Platform Mahalo

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Social Search Platform Company Mahalo is growing. This news comes as no suprise to me. First off Mahalo will do what Wikia can not do. If you aren’t familiar Wikia is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia’s search engine platform which is also social in that users, and potentially companies, and [...]