How Safe Is Facebook?

August 15th, 2007

Web Based Apps

I’ve been a member of Facebook since the school restrictions were lifted and have really enjoyed my experience having a Facebook page.  I’ve managed to reunite with several friends from high school and college, keep in touch with distant cousins that I haven’t seen for awhile, and even managed to take several relationships I’ve made [...]

Is Twitter a Fad or Here to Stay?

August 10th, 2007

Web Based Apps

Today I ran across an interesting post by Andy Swan entitled Why Twitter Is Not a Fad, in which he details various reasons why he feels Twitter is here to stay.  
Since it’s creation back in March of 2006, I’ve been struggling to figure out the appeal of Twitter.  To me, the service basically helps people [...]

Technorati Having Problems Again?

August 1st, 2007

Web Based Apps

Its been about two weeks now since I noticed that Technorati is once again having problems.  As of today, it shows the last post I made was 21 days ago.   Not including this post, I’ve actually made 40 posts since then that aren’t being indexed by Technorati.  What happened?
I have no idea.   I’ve contacted [...]

Best of: Facebook Applications

July 31st, 2007

Web Based Apps

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Over the last few months, Facebook has received a lot of praise for creating a Facebook platform that allows anyone to create Facebook applications for their popular social service. It has become so popular that there are currently close to 2,000 Facebook applications available to add to your profile. With this [...]

How to: Add YouTube Videos To Your Facebook Profile

July 28th, 2007

Web Based Apps

Facebook makes it easy to add photos and notes to your profile, but how do you share YouTube videos with your friends by posting them on your Facebook profile?   Today I ran across a great post at CyberNet News  of Old School Tech Commercials, which is basically just a walk down memory lane for anyone [...]

How to: Add Your Blog To Your Facebook Profile

July 28th, 2007

Blogging, Web Based Apps

There have been a few different attempts to make Facebook applications that work with blogging. So far, the best one I’ve found is the Flog application. This is a great step to help people sort of integrate their blog with Facebook and let their friends know about their blog when their profile is [...]