Tag Archives: social networking

At Gamescom, Sony announced that the Playstation Vita will have support for social networking services such as Foursquare and Skype.

Forget his Facebook and Twitter accounts -- now, you can start stalking our President's check-ins via Foursquare. A presidential Google+ account probably isn't far off.

Now that those of us with Google+ invites have had time to play around with the latest fad in social networking -- what's the consensus?

You really can get anything from someone if you promise them fake pr0n. Thousands of tumblr users have had their accounts compromised, by a tumblr phishing scam that uses the term "adult content" to get you to enter your login info. It's actually working.

The "new Facebook" is here, and at first glance, it looks suspiciously like Facebook. However, Google+ actually has some interesting features that will definitely change the social networking world.

There are now over 750 million active monthly users on Facebook. Wasn't it "only" 500 million last year?

MySpace, the once dominant social networking website, has now lost an unhealthy percentage of its users -- including ten million in January 2011 alone.

Kevin Bacon's ad for the Logitech Revue reminds us that with personality in the cloud, we're all unwitting doppelg�ngers now.

Is mobile the answer for a pioneering, moribund social networking brand?

Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.