A Pew Report released today shows that social media is used by over 117 million adults in the US, up over 50% from just three years ago. How do they view their social media experience? When asked, "What is the one word that describes your experience using social networking sites?" the overwhelming … [Read more...]
Twitter Adds User Galleries
Twitter today announced an image gallery and browser that makes it easy for you to browse all the images ever shared by any user (at least up to 100, and only back as far as January 1, 2010). It works in conjunction with a number of popular image sharing services, including Twitter, yFrog, TwitPic, … [Read more...]
The Twit Network – Spoof Movie Trailer
You may have seen last year's The Social Network which chronicled the dramatic rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Now comes The Twit Network. It's the story about a website and two guys who understood the way of the future when nobody else seemed to, and kept at it even though it is kind of … [Read more...]
Changing Your Facebook Relationship Status Can Lead to Regret
Changing your Facebook relationship status can shake up your social graph, sometimes with regrettable results. Consider Kyle, who recently announced that he is now "...in a relationship." And read the ensuing comments. Poor Kyle. Imagine the excitement he felt as he made the bold leap and … [Read more...]
Facebook vs. Twitter: 2010 Demographics
Facebook and Twitter are both hugely popular social networks. Twitter has over 100 millions users, and Facebook over 500 million, and both show no signs of slowing down their phenomenal growth. DigitalSurgeons did some digging and put together this great infographic that breaks down the 2010 … [Read more...]
Brutally Honest Facebook Status Messages
If Facebook Status messages were brutally honest, they might look something like this: via Penis Hole … [Read more...]
The Beast
Google is taking a lot of heat lately from their privacy flap over Google Buzz. Their motto may be "Do no evil" but they have become a goliath and people are beginning to wonderful if the company can grow so large and still be true to that creed. The Hungry Beast has posted an amusing and … [Read more...]
Talk Nerdy To Me
What's in a (brand) name? A little social media humor for today's Sunday Funny. … [Read more...]
What is Twitter?
Unless you've been living under a rock, it's been pretty hard to avoid hearing about Twitter. But even many of the people who use Twitter have a hard time explaining exactly what it is. More importantly, what's the point of Twitter? This clever video does a great job of explaining what Twitter is … [Read more...]
U2 Live on YouTube
Rock giants U2 will be broadcasting tonight's concert at the Rose Bowl in a global webcast on YouTube. You can view the concert on the official U2 channel, which will be available in 16 countries. Tonight's concert will be an acid test for streaming live video on YouTube. In the past, Google (who … [Read more...]