Twitter’s micro-blogging service has always been popular, and with people such as Stephen Fry entertaining the masses, it’s popularity can only grow as more and more people sign up to follow the musings of person A or X. Now though the service has recorded it’s 20 billionth tweet from a graphic designed based on Tokyo [...]

Categories: Misc

There are so many Linux distributions out there. Some of them are pretty standard and some of them go well out of their way to try to bring something different to the table. I’ve seen just about every take on the Linux desktop. Today, however, I came across a distribution, Peppermint Linux, that added another [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Google, Linux, Online Services, Open Source

Microsoft is going to release the Facebook social connector for Outlook later today according to Neowin.  The connector allows you to integrate your Facebook contacts into Outlook to view things like their status updates.  It’s a good way to keep in touch with people, though businesses might find the concept irritating. Many people were expecting this [...]

Categories: Facebook, Software

Where would we be today without social networking? I have heard many tales how a social tool has saved a life or joined two lives together. Just recently a friend of mine found our her son was wounded in war not by the Red Cross, but on Facebook. These tools have become an integral part [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software

Facebook some time ago offered their users an alternative version of the social networking site dubbed Facebook Lite which was a stripped down version of Facebook designed for users with slow Internet connections to speed up page loading times. Facebook Lite on the other hand was not designed for mobile users who can access Facebook [...]

Categories: Facebook, The Web

It feels like there is not a day where Google is not updating or publishing a new service. Google Buzz is the latest service that is being rolled out from today on to all Gmail users. It is a social networking service to share updates, photos, videos and more with contacts. If you think Twitter, [...]

Categories: Google

The social scene has nearly reached critical mass. You can not peak around the internet without seeing its tendrils reaching deep within the fabric of every site you visit. This, of course, can cause problems with your work, school, or group environment. While work is supposed to be done, your users/employees are socializing on Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Server, Software, The Web, Tutorials Basic

The owners of the popular social networking website Facebook have acquired FriendFeed, a web service that allowed users to share information with friends and groups easily. Details on the acquisition are sparse at the moment with the exception that FriendFeed will continue its service for the time being. All FriendFeed engineers will join the Facebook [...]

Categories: Facebook, The Web

With all the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and the million others out there it becomes very easy to tell the world about yourself. What many users of those social networks do not realize is that their writings can have consequences in the real world. A young women got only recently fired from here [...]

Categories: The Web