Month: January 1970

Here’s one business story you can bet won’t have a happy ending: Four new social media magazines are launching to spread the word in print about online social media. […] Original post by jambai

As campaign season kicks into high gear, social networks are getting extra social with politicians. Here are some good stories about this trend: The Associated Press offered a look at how […] Original post by jambai

YouTube is somewhat like broadcast television: its broadcasting format is not specifically designed to be saved by the viewer.  Instead: by using a specialized third party service (much like a […] Original post by jambai

FML is ‘F*ck My Life’, a humorous expression of despair. First appearing in 2008, and growing to immense popularity in 2011, FML is used in text messaging and online […] Original post by jambai

Twitter’s mobile usage rate is up sharply in the wake of its integration with Apple’s mobile operating system. Twitter’s chief executive, Dick Costolo, told attendees at the Web 2.0 […] Original post by jambai

The modern internet is about handheld connectivity. In 2011, we converse in ‘high-velocity’ style, with shorthand made for thumb-typing. Expressions like ‘IIRC’, ‘mego’, ‘BTAIM’, and ‘fml’ are part […] Original post by jambai

Computers are all about making the repetitive go faster. In the case of opening and viewing web pages, shortcut keystrokes are a real boon. Type “.com” in […] Original post by mtwiscool

Don’t be lured into becoming lazy and gullible. Just because there is Google and Wikipedia, good knowledge has not suddenly become instant.  Even more than ever: we users […] Original post by mtwiscool

About 78 percent of burglars are using social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to identify empty houses, according to a new study conducted in the United Kingdom. The study […] Original post by mtwiscool

Klout, a service that attempts to measure people’s influence in social media, triggered a firestorm of criticism after it revamped its formula for scoring social standing last week. Klout scores individuals […] Original post by mtwiscool

A bit is a very small amount of electronic data… smaller than the size of a single digit or character that you might type in an email. Megabits-per-second […] Original post by About.com

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So, you’re participating in an online discussion forum about immigration law, and you keep seeing this weird expression “QFT“. People post up phrases like “QFT, +1!” and “Aethien QFT!”. […] Original post by About.com