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Who’s Really In Power In Your Social Networks?

Today Black Web 2.0 published a article in a series of blog posts aimed at highlighting powerful people of color on Twitter. Rumor’s are flying (tweeting?) that the list is a response to the many lists published year-round neglecting women and people of color, who account for 25% of Twitter’s users. It’s an effort that [...]

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Stop Your Friends From Checking You Into Facebook Places

Earlier this week I tweet about wanting to use Facebook Places on a private Facebook account. However, Facebook’s history of privacy bloopers doesn’t make that a very attractive thing to do if you want to maintain the privacy of a private account. This hassle is evident with Facebook’s Friend’ Suggestions. If your profile is private, [...]

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Mobile News Wave: Facebook Places, Foursquare, and Google

The rumors were true. Today, Facebook steps into the location-based services (or LBS) arena with Facebook Places. Now everyone is watching Foursquare, the current king of LBS. Not to mention Google acknowledged receiving 100 million Google Map users every month. The mobile space is clearly heating up and here’s what you should know about it.

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Online Identity Privacy Tips For Students and Parents

Guest Post by: Lillian Solomon, a full-time educator at work and at home. Many students around the globe are using social networks such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter to share their lives in a way that was unheard of prior too. While communicating online is nothing new, doing so in a highly public manner with [...]

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Promoted Trends: More Clever Twitter Ads

There have been many rumors about how Twitter would monetize itself and all roads led to advertisements. Simple enough, but when you throw ads in a Twitter conversation you tend to get mixed reactions from the public. Twitter serves as a conversation platform first and foremost. Some think that ads will disrupt real engagement, the [...]

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