Category | Social Networking

The New Yorker has an extremely interesting profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Jose Antonio Vargas was given unprecedented access to Zuck and conducted several interviews with him, his closest friends, and even his girlfriend. I have to admit, I love Facebook. It’s one of the most important sites in the world. However, Zuck scares me a little bit. I’m not sure what his real intentions are or if we should all trust Facebook as much as we do. But then again, Google scares me in the same way. One of the interesting things about Zuck is that his friends call him the “poorest rich...

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The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0 , but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month (according to data from Quantcast). Go here to see the original: WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts

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This from the FriendFeed blog: We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle... The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even...

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MySpace was the first big social network to really break out and become a nation wide phenomenon. The MySpace craze was initially driven by kids and young people.   As a result, many professionals and other grown folks mistakenly believe social media and social networking is kiddie stuff. The truth is that many adults are on MySpace, but I’ll concede it’s mostly a younger crowd.   Facebook on the other hand is totally different. Facebook is the Myspace for grown-ups --- only much better. Not only is Facebook a great way to stay connected with friends and family, but it’s also...

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With the rise of social media and social networks one of the problems I’ve had is keeping track of my social identities.   I have many social media streams and figured the logical thing would be to have them all in one place where clients, friends, or whoever can see them easily.   It turns out, there’s quite a few websites aiming to do just that! Charles Hamilton over at Web Worker Daily wrote a great piece on some of the best options available.   Off his list, I’ve personally tried both ClaimID and GizaPage. You can see my profiles on these sites below to get a feel...

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