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Pew Report: Social Media Adoption Up Over 50%

August 26, 2011 by Jeff Hester 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Features, Social Networks Tagged With: Pew Report, social media, social networking, statistics

Facebook vs. Twitter: 2010 Demographics

February 16, 2011 by Jeff Hester 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: data porn, demographics, Facebook, infographic, social networking, Twitter

Nimbuzz Launches on Android

August 19, 2009 by Jeff Hester 2 Comments

Nimbuzz has launched an Android version of their "mobile social messaging" application.  Like it's iPhone sibling, the Nimbuzz Android app lets you connect to multiple IM and social networks, including Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Facebook and others. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, instant messaging, Mobile, nimbuzz, social networking

Digsby Adds Real Time Web

August 12, 2009 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

dotSyntax released a new version of Digsby, the popular multi-network instant messaging and social networking program. This update provides three new features, and sports a new look for Windows 7. Digsby now integrates with MySpaceID, providing real-time notification from your MySpace activity … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Instant Messaging Tagged With: digsby, instant messaging, MySpace, oneriot, ping.fm, social networking

AIM 6.9 Gets Social

April 28, 2009 by Jeff Hester 3 Comments

AOL today officially released AIM 6.9 for Windows, introducing new features that integrate AIM with other social networks, including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. This new version of the venerable instant messaging program acknowledges and embraces the fact that people aren't just on a single … [Read more...]

Filed Under: AIM Tagged With: AIM, aol, Facebook, instant messaging, Instant Messaging, social networking, Twitter, youtube

Social Network Wars

April 26, 2009 by Jeff Hester 3 Comments

With Myspace, Facebook and other social networks all vying for attention, what can the average Joe do to maintain his sanity? This week's Sunday Funny is a video that wouldn't be funny if it weren't so true: Social Network Wars.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: Facebook, friendster, humor, MySpace, social networking, sunday funnies

drop.io adds real-time chat

March 14, 2009 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

drop.io promises simple, secure, real-time file sharing and collaboration. It's easy to setup a drop.io "box" -- you don't even need to register. Once you've setup a drop.io space, you can send files, share and retrieve files from that space using almost any method imaginable. Web uploads/downloads, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: chat, collaboration, jabber, sharing, social networking

Hello World! Feedback? Feedback!

January 8, 2008 by Jeff Hester 2 Comments

The BigBlue Crew suggested a blog would be a great way to share what's going on behind-the-scenes at BigBlueBall.com, so we've launched BigBlueBlog. We'll be posting information about our staff (the BigBlue Crew!); site news and updates; info about new goodies we're working on at BigBlueBall; and -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Site News Tagged With: blogs, Facebook, feedback, forums, Instant Messaging, instant messaging, MySpace, social networking, Twitter

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