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...]
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...]
Nimbuzz Launches on Android
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...]
Digsby Adds Real Time Web
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...]
AIM 6.9 Gets Social
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...]
Social Network Wars
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...]
drop.io adds real-time chat
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...]
Hello World! Feedback? Feedback!
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...]