If following the Royal Wedding isn’t really something you are interested in, but your friends on Twitter and Facebook are inundating you with messages about it, here are some browser plugins and applications which allow you to filter your social networking feeds. Of course, this same procedure can apply to any unwanted topic you have no interest in...

While Yet Another Facebook Look Change is nothing new to report about – the features of the newly redesigned user profiles is something of which to stop and take notice. Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerburg, appeared on 60 Minutes last night to talk about the newly unveiled profile look for users of the social networking site. As early as yesterday,...

Everyone knows what a phone book and web search engine are, but if you were to combine them, you would end up with something like Spokeo: Spokeo is a search engine specialized in organizing people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of this data is publicly available on the...

If you use multiple social networking sites and typically post the same stuff on each, a service you should check out is Ping.fm. Basically you make a post from any of Ping.fm’s supported methods (desktop app, text, etc.) and then your content is sent to each of your configured social network pages. Ping.fm supports almost every social networking site out...

Most of you have probably heard the term ‘domain squatter’ which is someone who registers a domain with the sole intent of selling to someone else who has a legitimate need for it (at a substantially increased price). Well, domain names are not the only thing being targeted by squatters as social networking names are being quickly gobbled up. This...

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...

It took me a while before I grasped the whole concept of what social networking actually is. It’s not that I don’t understand how it works technically. It’s that I didn’t comprehend what it’s about. Said sincerely, it can get confusing. First, let’s try to define it. We’ll use Google. Google’s best definition...

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BusinessWeek dared (gasp) to throw out a Web 1.0 term, portal. The Web 2.0 term is called social network. Before continuing, I’ll attempt to explain the difference between portal and social network. A portal is an entryway. It is the place where you begin when using the internet. For example, many people use Yahoo as a portal. It is set as your home page,...

It is rare that I see a parody that so accurately NAILS how stupid social networking can be. Watch for the Friendster reference and the MySpace “skank power.” That’s all I gotta say. ...

When you use the internet long enough you basically sign up for every instant messenger account on the planet. AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN/Live, and so on. You also sign up for a bunch of social networking sites as well, such as MySpace and Facebook. Maybe you even use one of those micro-blogger type sites like Twitter. The problem at this point is that you’ve...