Posts Tagged with ‘social-networking’

Usage of internet, including social networking websites, is becoming a serious issue for athletic departments across the US. Recently two Nebraska athletes have appeared on a porn website and have been dismissed from the wrestling team as a result. This incident has made the sports officials realize that web usage by athletes may pose a serious problem and should be addressed properly since it can damage the image of a team and a university - not only of the [...]

Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to me the most interesting part in both stories is that if Eric's sources are correct, Facebook's internal valuation is now at $4 billion while that [...]

Since I am not in the US, it is always fascinating to see some international news going big among US journalists and readers - so today's article in the New Your Times titled "An Innocent Abroad" was a great refreshment to me. The article has a lot of valid points about how the internet Anglosphere views the rest of the internet - I mean those of us that are wired but don't have English as their native [...]

It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the feature of the social network. True, I actually expected more improvements right when the redesigned profiles were launched and I still think one huge thing is missing but the filters already make it better.
Logically, the new functionality launched today on Facebook allows for some additional filtering within the news feed where we see the [...]

What a surprise, really! A study released by reputation management service RapLeaf (our previous coverage) reveals that there are more women than men on all the major social networks the exception of LinkedIn and Perfspot.
RapLeaf studied over 49 million people based on the publicly available data to understand social networking trends and their relation to gender and age of internet users. The social networks studied included Bebo, Blackplanet, Classmates, Facebook, Flickr, Flixter, Friendster, Hi5, LinkedIn, Multiply, MySpace, [...]

Well, I think I can't keep my mouth shut about the redesigned Facebook now that I've spent half Monday clicking the refresh button on my home page and wishing for the new changes to arrive (and never getting them, unfortunately). Well, I mean I have received the new redesigned page and I do like the layout and the wider space I now have there. What I don't understand is why I only get some of the features [...]

Do you consider your interactions on social networking sites to be private?
Amanda Hudson is suing six U.K. newspapers based on the assumption that whatever happens on Bebo (or, by extension, other social networks) should stay on Bebo after a story her 15-year-old concocted and posted to the site was picked up by several newspapers. The big problem? Hudson's daughter's story involved underaged drinking, a visit from the police, and her mother punching her, which Hudson claims never happened. That didn't [...]

So now that LinkedIn has allowed search for groups, group functionality has finally become useful, I think. While before today you had to browse profiles of other users to discover some groups you might be interested in joining, now you can actually perform a search to find the interesting groups.
Availability of search within groups was announced 3 days ago and the feature went live today. In fact, it is an interesting approach since I've never seen a [...]

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 problem with BlitzTime was the overall design of the site. For something that is so interesting and useful (not to mention social), you'd never know [...]