From Time Magazine 12/16/06 By: Jaron Lanier It’s funny being an “old timer” in the world of the Internet. About six years ago, when I was 40 years old, a Stanford freshman said to me, “Wow Jaron Lanier—you’re still ALIVE?” If there’s any use to sticking...
If a potential employer searched for you online what would they find? Would it help you get a job, or hurt your chances?Online Reputation Management gives you the chance to gain an unfair advantage in your job...
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Heather Armstrong is no stranger to controversy. The popular blogger of dooce.com has had her share of heartache and anger thanks to the internet. In 2005 Heather Armstrong orally agreed to publish a blogger memoir with Kensington's Rebel Base Books, an agreement on which she...
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So, Web 2.0 has been crowned the millionth word in the English language. Surprise, surprise. What were you expecting it to be? "Newspaper"? "“As expected, English crossed the 1,000,000 word threshold on June 10, 2009 at 10:22 am GMT. However, some 400 years...
The Global Language Monitor today announced that Web 2.0 has bested Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog as the 1,000,000th English word or phrase added to the codex of fourteen hundred-year-old language. " English contains...
A study released May 13, 2009 reveals a shocking trend on the social web. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center study there has been a 25% increase in hate on social networking sites, so called viral hate, and that the trend is on the rise.Looking at 10,000...
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Estamos en una era en la cual necesitamos información rápida y concisa, que nos evite navegar de un lugar a otro en busca de ella. Estamos en una era en que las redes sociales y la Web 2.0 se han vuelto parte de nuestra vida diaria y no solo en el aspecto personal, sino...
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Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter (based in San Francisco, CA) is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets. Tweets...
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How do you get your ideas, stories, products or services to spread like wildfire over the web by millions of people? Are the huge success stories you hear about the viral power of the web just flukes - or can anyone do it? Interview and book review of a “WORLD WIDE...
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One of the beneficiaries of the recession are the word oriented social sites like Linkedin and to a lesser extend Facebook (read what I think about Facebook). According to news.com this weeked, the traffic for...
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Tweetsgiving has turned Twitter's ability to bring out sarcastic and witty comments in its users into an online chairty that is trying to raise $10,000 for a class of Tanzanian students. Run by Epic Change,...
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Facebook poked Twitter, but the growing start up denied their $500 friend request. At least that's what some industry bloggers and writers are saying, quoting high ranking people within both parties as saying that...
Telcom industry-backed group proclaims that a consumer traffic "exaflood" will overwhelm the internet unless the telcos are given more power and tax dollars, with less oversight and accountability. Hint; it's a trick."As a rule, most warnings of Internet capacity armageddon...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 101 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments
Eric Schmidt believes Net Neutrality can help solve the energy and environmental crisis, pointing out the unlimited nature of information and the ability of social networks to contribute to finding and...
opinion by Erik Larson | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 123 views | 9 recommendations | 3 comments