Every other week we hear about how social media companies yet again made huge mistakes with the handling of the way they do things. Nobody is surprised by this anymore. It used to be that some people used social media casually where they would sometimes share things out on the internet, but these days share or sharing is now a dirty word whenever it’s...

To be internet-social basically means to have a shareable public profile with contact connection options. If you don’t understand what I mean by that, you will in a moment. The profile is easy enough to understand. The contact connection options means whatever system you decide to use has some way of people adding you to a friend or ‘follow’...

CNN just released their 10 biggest tech ‘fails’ of 2010. I do agree with everything on the list as being legitimate failures, but it doesn’t follow up what would obviously be the next question – what did we learn from those failures? Here’s what I think we all learned – with a few more added in of my own.Email has no place...

It’s a hard truth that there’s more negative that positive on the internet because it’s easier to complain than to compliment. The flip side of the coin are sites that try to put a positive spin on things. The trick however is to do it in such a way that contributes meaningfully, or to be more specific, is the positive spin useful or...

When I heard about Google Buzz, the first thought that went through my head was, "I wonder if this is going to be similar like Yahoo! Buzz?" Yes. Yahoo! did this a long time ago. All who use Yahoo! Buzz raise your hand. [insert sound of crickets chirping here] That’s what I thought. I usually don’t share the same opinion of large web...

There are many "elite" bloggers that state that the future of everything concerning internet communications is in the browser. I’ve heard "in the browser" so much in the course of 2009 that it now annoys me to even hear it. Why? Because as far as usability is concerned, doing everything in the browser is a step backwards. All-in-browser...

There is no doubt that social networking is an improvement in the way we communicate on the internet, as it allows for people to connect in ways not possible prior to it. For example, Facebook allows to search people by name; this is much easier compared to connect with old friends, family members, acquaintances, coworkers and so on. However, social networking...

If you haven’t heard, everybody (like here, here and here in addition to a ton of other places) is talking how a Hotmail phishing attack happened and somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000+ account passwords were leaked. Use Hotmail and think your account is compromised? Well, if you happen to be in European user and your account name started with an A or...

For many, there will come a time when you’re "connected" to too much stuff on the internet. You know you’re too connected when you simply can’t keep up with everything you’re signed up for. Whether it’s email subscriptions, RSS feeds, YouTube channels, MySpace/Facebook friends, AIM buddies and so on, all this information...

Hate Facebook? MySpace seems old hat now? Want something that’s easy to use and gives you instant message capability too? Here are three you can try out. You’ve most likely never heard of these, but hey, that’s half the fun because being early in sites like these means you’ll probably get more e-popular. All three of these sites have...

Somewhere right now on the internet, at least 25,000 people are blogging, video’ing, Twittering, Facebook’ing, MySpace’ing or whatever other-ing something they really shouldn’t about someone in their social circle. Shortly after what they post these people will encounter the wrath of those they posted about (and probably in less than 24...

At right is a screen shot of the Wikipedia page List of social networking websites. Said honestly I had absolutely no idea there were this many. Yeah, I knew there were quite a few but not so much that you had to press "Page Down" five times to read thru it… …when reading the web page on a 1680×1050 monitor… …with the...

More than a few PCMech readers truly don’t care about MySpace mainly due the reason they don’t see a purpose in using it. I shall give you a 3 things you can do on MySpace that are easier compared to using other services. Before I do, the thing to remember about that site is that it is a social tool. If you approach it as such it can work out quite...