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When Javier Cáceres walks the halls of Shorewood High School, he is greeted as a rock star, a conquering hero … the guy who engineered the defending blow against Seattle rival Shorecrest.
If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't figure out his social networking site's privacy settings after they were ripped open earlier this month, what hope is there for the rest of us?
Upping the ante on social-networked weddings went into overdrive in ’09. One bridal party danced its way down the aisle and into YouTube stardom in a choreographed ceremony set to Chris Brown’s “Forever.” A couple of other dudes proposed, and were accepted over Twitter. And, earlier this month, a groom updated his relationship status on Twitter and Facebook, at the altar … before kissing the bride!
Sure, it seemed creepy at first … maybe even creepy still. But there’s no denying that Google Street View, a function of Google Earth and Google Maps, is also wicked cool. Giving a whole new meaning to “I can see my house from here,” Google Street View provides 360-degree horizontal and 290-degree vertical views of streets all over the planet via a few clicks on your keyboard.
Not since Prince Charles of Wales told then-mistress Camilla Parker-Bowles of his desire to be her feminine hygiene product has an adulterous celebrity been so humiliated by a telephone communiqué. We’re talking about Tiger Woods here, and the voice mail message he left to an alleged mistress, released earlier this week by Us Weekly. In review:
Earlier this week, the New American Oxford Dictionary announced the addition of social network slang “unfriend” to its next edition, vexing armchair vocabulists everywhere. And yet “gullible” is still not in the dictionary!
Unlike the immersive social network games making all the news and money these days, you don’t need any special skills to build a one-off Facebook quiz. And it shows. America’s favorite social networking site is chock full of homemade quizzes with the kind of egregious spelling and grammatical errors that would make your fifth-grade language arts teacher positively apoplectic.
Seriously? You’d do that? You’d totally provide your personal information to yet another third-party application in trade for “free” coins to use in that virtual sharecrop you’ve got going over on Facebook? Do you really want a pig that bad?
The only thing constant about change is that it sucks.
Well, it’s happened. They’ve finally arrested someone for egregious poking on Facebook.
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces.
High school sucks. Did you forget? Don’t believe it? Check out Facebook.
The Internet, with its Twitter and Facebook and Craigslist, et al, is destroying society; surely you’ve heard.
Seconds after Kanye West performed the mortal sin of stepping on Taylor Swift’s “Best Female Video” acceptance speech at MTV’s Video Music Awards, the Internet achieved consensus: West is officially the worst person who ever lived. Ever
A lot of kerfuffle preceded President Barack Obama’s Back to School speech earlier this week. What he failed to do is supply the requisite cautionary tales, which we offer here.
No one here on Al Gore’s Great Green Internet is truly shocked or surprised that Twitter is going through the exact same growing pains experienced by every single social network that ever existed.
Flickr isn’t talking about the “Jokerized” image of President Obama it yanked from its site, and it doesn’t want its users to talk about it either. Turns out, this photo-sharing “community” is more of a business than its customers like to believe.
Turns out, Facebook is not your secret diary. If you put your stuff online and invite other people to look at it, other people might do just that. Still, don’t let that stop you from seeking damages.
A study reveals that more than 40 percent of Twitter's tweets are "Pointless Babble." So what were we expecting? Why should self-published content to be different than, for instance, conversation?
If you’re still not hep to the Twitter, that new-fangled InterWebs thingy all the kids are talking about, you’re far from alone. A recent LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll survey found a whole lot of people who don’t know a re-tweet from a hashtag.
While heroic politicians all over America are mandating bicycle helmets, it's still legal to drive 4,000 pounds of steel 60 miles an hour while your brain is turned to the moron setting.
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork," George Orwell wrote in his 1949 tale of a totalitarian regime “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Two out of three Americans are so totally over Michael Jackson news coverage. Well, that’s according to a Pew Research Center survey.
Two out of three Americans are so totally over Michael Jackson news coverage. Well, that’s according to a Pew Research Center survey.
Top 9 Internet memes of 2009From Crasher Squirrel and Kanye West to "David After Dentist," these are the running gags that made the year's Internet life worth living.
Real-life high school musical smackdown!When Javier Cceres walks the halls of Shorewood high school, he is greeted as a rock star, a conquering hero %u2026 the guy who engineered the defending blow against Seattle rival Shorecrest.
Google Trike is ready for your close-upThe Google Street View Trike is 250 pounds of serious technology - often mistaken for an ice cream cart.
Just because it's on Twitter, it (still) isn't trueContrary to those who blame the Internet for, well, everything - in this case, our willingness to believe pretty much anything - don't blame it for our love for hoaxes.
The Web: Just another way to avoid sex, friendsRecently-released poll says that Americans are giving up friends and sex for Web life. But despite the suspect sciencey-goodness of such a poll, didn't you pretty much know in your heart that the above was true?
Dumbest Facebook quizzes ever!Most Facebook quizzes are themed on the one subject we all find irresistible: Ourselves. And while these personality tests feature crazy questions, they all fit into at least one of five categories.
Online dating is about game theory - not looksSince when do ber hotties need a specialized online dating service? If evolutionary psychology and People magazine teach us anything, it's this: When it comes to hooking up, the only thing the most attractive of the species need do is walk outside.
Facebook's fantasy games cost more than timeSocial network developers for games such as "FarmVille" and "Pet Society" get paid big bucks by advertisers for serving up customers on a silver platter. (That would be you.)
Latest Facebook redesign, I hate you most of allThe only thing constant about change is that it sucks. For proof, look no farther than the Facebook users who spent last weekend dealing with the social network's latest redesign.
Chilling truth behind the zombie tech meme!Zombies are awesome! Everybody knows that %u2026
Facebook 'poking': So annoying, it's criminalThey've finally arrested someone for egregious Facebook poking. Granted, that's not the whole story. But plenty of Facebookers would like to see this function outlawed.
Hey, kids! Hate school? Don\\\\\\\'t tell Facebook!While the medium of expression has changed over the years -from the cover of a Mead Trapper Keeper to Facebook� - proclaiming the suckitude of one\\\\\\\'s school is an ancient rite protected by the First Amendment, and one that\\\\\\\'s increasingly challenged.
Bad behavior? Blame the Internet!The Internet, with its Twitter and Facebook and Craigslist, et al, is destroying society; surely you've heard.
Even Internet Hitler hates Kanye WestSeconds after Kanye West performed the mortal sin of stepping on Taylor Swift's "Best Female Video" acceptance speech at MTV's Video Music Awards, the Internet achieved consensus: West is officially the worst person who ever lived. Ever
Sue Facebook for sharing your info? Seriously?Turns out, Facebook is not your secret diary. If you put your stuff online and invite other people to look at it, other people might do just that. Still, don't let that stop you from seeking damages.
Study finds most Twitter to be twaddleA study reveals that more than 40 percent of Twitter's tweets are "Pointless Babble." So what were we expecting? Why should self-published content to be different than, for instance, conversation?
Virtual sex worth stealingA civil lawsuit alleging stolen software that allows Second Life citizens to have more better realistic sex begs the question %u2026 just who exactly
Michael Jackson memorial shared onlineTwo out of three Americans are so totally over Michael Jackson news coverage. But if you check out the social networks, this one fact becomes obvious: A whole lot of Internet users - American or otherwise - sure aren't sick of discussing it themselves.
Facebook: 'Why not give your ex another shot?'Users are beginning to notice that the social network's 'friend suggestions' are getting a little ... um ... inappropriate. What's up with that?
Get your 'Thriller' on YouTubeThe video-sharing site is a virtual repository of Michael Jackson homages in which many aspire to be a funky member of the pop-locking zombie horde.
'Net big enough for Michael Jackson and IranNews of Michael Jackson's death broke on the Internet late Thursday afternoon. Not long after that, the Internet broke too.
Twitter marks the evolution of digital activismThe social network commonly characterized as transmitting narcissism in 140 characters or less is also the go-to source for immediate updates on the events following Iran's protested presidential election.
Cyberbullying laws won't save your childrenAttention-grabbing headlines, spotlight-hungry politicians and Internet safety crusaders would have us believe that technology is killing our children by the school bus-load.
Apple censors make no sense. Ask Trent ReznorNow, it's Apple's candy store and the company can jerk would-be developers and customers alike with its opaque and incomprehensible app submission disclaimer. But when Apple randomly refuses art (i.e. the NIN app update), well that's just censorship. Plus stupid.
Shocking truth behind Amazon's 'glitch'Amazon's canned e-mail response to an author of a suddenly unranked gay romance novel for young adults created a furor. But the truly amazing part of the story: The Amazon service department actually got back to someone!
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