This is a guest post by Babu M. Varghese. The launch of Geocities by Yahoo marked for some the beginning of a new revolution in the online media called social networking. Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario,...
read moreMany tech geeks will often say that their first forays into cyberspace began with a 300 baud modem and a BBS. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ floppy of Promenade (later to be called AOL) and signed up to use the...
read moreI have about 20 minutes to give my initial impressions on the new Digg profile redesign but have arrived at my conclusion: it sucks. A few things come to mind based on everything I’ve used Digg for in the past: Digg took a step backwards in social news and took a step forward on social superfluity. Digg is now letting you...
read moreA recent study performed by Ph.D. student Danah Boyd and covered by BBC News has determined that there is a “sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.” Boyd claims that Facebook users are primarily from wealthier homes and have a greater chance of attending...
read moreAccording to the 2006 GenX2Z Anderson Analytics survey (PDF link), the top five websites of choice by college students are: MySpace (13% of visits, a 258% increase from 2005) facebook.com (11.5%, a 41% increase from 2005) youtube.com (4.5%, with no data from 2005 recorded) collegehumor.com (3.7%, a 61% decrease from...
read moreNothing is secret anymore. Unfortunately for Robert Scoble, whose private correspondence was aired on a blog, we are beginning to slowly learn that anything could potentially become public knowledge. Okay, well, Robert Scoble’s experience is on the far extreme end of things. The blogger who brought Robert’s private...
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Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. She provides consulting in internet marketing and is Mashable's Global Advertising Director. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
