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When I saw Twitzu flit across my radar as the newest shiny Twitter-based feature application, I was fairly excited. I use Twitter for many things, but event planning and event news is definitely at or near the top of my list. I couldn't wait to check it out.
After giving it the once over, I was [...]

Jay Meattle's FireFox Add On Shareaholic has become one of my favorite and most often used browser tools in record time. It works in FireFox 3 . It works with Flock 2.0. It just… works. It makes sharing among all of my sites (Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, FaceBook, etc.) a breeze.
In fact it makes it [...]

Over the course of the last several months, I've been doing a series on Politics and Social Media. Most often this involves reviewing various new political social sites, like 20DC, candidate sites, or other seemingly static applications of politics online. Today marks a first - politicians embracing social media darling Twitter.
Barack Obama, as I [...]

New York Magazine featured an op-ed piece today in their News and Features section that just had me cringing. Basically, it invited all of America to add to the pointless noise level of the internet and social media. The whole article is a classic case of missing the point.
The first thing that struck me was [...]

It seems from watching my news feeds that company executives from Yahoo and its properties are fleeing as fast as they can, like rats from a sinking ship. You can hardly blame them. Yahoo has been a shining example of what not to do the past few months - hardly confidence inspiring.
The two most recent [...]

I had the chance to test drive BlitzTime yesterday with CEO Jeff D'Urso, President Mick Sachleben and Virtual Assistant guru Jennifer Goodwin (from Internet Girl Friday ). I have to say that while there are definitely some kinks to be worked out, this application has potential as a social meeting, speed networking tool.
My main [...]

Well, it is official: Google has now infiltrated Yahoo via ads. Has Google found the back door in to taking over the struggling company, or is it truly only in this for good, not evil, as per the famous Google motto? Google took the time to release a statement about the new ad arrangement with [...]

I have been playing with the beta release of the new Adium 1.3. I fall more in love with this instant message and chat client every day. It offers more connections to more types of accounts than you'd think to find in one place, and now it has gone one step further and added FaceBook [...]

Foof came across my radar as part of a site called BzzAgent, where it was featured in a section of the site called the FrogPond. When one of my friends, a BzzAgent member, saw it and told me about it, I knew I had to check it out. I'm not a fan of ad blocking [...]