Everyone was excited about it. Tech geeks touted it as “The Facebook Killer.” The blogosphere was abuzz about a better chat system, a better interface, and Google Hangouts. Now, it’s all but forgotten in the minds of many. Though one hundred million may have Google + accounts…how many of them are actually active? When’s the last...

Those of you who pay attention to investment news already know the story of the hour- Facebook’s gone public. On Thursday, they filed an IPO, and the entire investment community rejoiced. Several social gaming companies saw their stock skyrocket, and Zuckerberg revealed just how much money he’s really been making off of his world-changing social...

With the advent of the social network, more and more of our lives and consequently our identities, are finding their way to the net. Names, interests, social relationships, birth-dates, and sometimes even financial information. All very valuable information for the right (or wrong, depending on how you look at it) person. It shouldn’t come as any surprise...

Not sure if you’ve heard the news. Blogging is dead. Social media is dead. Oh, and the whole damn world wide web is dead. Oh, and I heard about it on blogs, social media and the world wide web. Ironic, I know. The truth, though, is that… Creativity Is Dead When you have nothing else to say as a tech blogger, just declare something dead. People will...

Do you use social media sites? To you use Twitter at all? Do you dabble? Or do you think it is just a big waste of time? Doing what I do for a living, I am pretty active in social media. I am on Twitter every day. I am also active on Facebook. Every once in awhile, I check in on LinkedIn. Myspace? Well, I have a profile but I think the site blows and therefore I...

While in Seattle for Gnomedex, we all expect to be talking about geeky things, blogging, sending a crapload of tweets on Twitter, etc. One thing you don’t expect to do is send a Cambodian girl to college. A girl who would not have been able to do so were it for not those of us in that conference room. We raised about $3,700 for this woman using nothing but...

Remember the days when the the Internet was new and when we were all spellbound at the idea of having our own desktop computer? Learning the workings of the computer was of prime importance. You had this piece of powerful equipment on your desk and you wanted to explore all the possibilities it presented. Fast forward to today. Things have most certainly...

Twitter has been the subject of a LOT of tech talk. It results in three different camps of people: (1) people who get it and participate, (2) people who tried it and found it stupid, (3) people who don’t even try it. In our recent reader survey here at PCMech, we had some interesting results…54% of our readers find Twitter to be a boring...

Talking about using social media for business purposes practically walks on the third rail of the Internet. A lot of people who are using social media sites like Twitter or Facebook are particularly sensitive when it appears they are being marketed to. In my opinion, the fact that Twitter users get nervous when they see a “internet marketer” use...

If you’re going to set up shop online and try to market anything, you are most definitely going to need an online identity. In fact, even if you don’t plan to use the Internet to make any money, you might want to set up an online identity. But, what do I mean when I say “online identity”? Essentially, I mean an easily identified brand on...

The Internet is broken up into, let’s say, two groups of people: (1) Early adopters who try everything that comes out and are on the cutting edge, and (2) everybody else. And there is a whole lot more of “everybody else” than there are people like myself (early adopters). The “everybody else” crowd hears buzzwords like Twitter but...

Every time a “new” method of communication comes about on the internet that has any functionality to do with threaded discussions (key phrase there), it is in essence a forum. Twitter does act like a forum at times. How? You can reply to someone’s “tweet”. Other Twitter users can reply to your tweet. This is technically a threaded...