Tech journalist David Kirkpatrick's book, the facebook EFFECT, published this year tells the inside story of the company that he says is connecting the World. In 2006 Kirkpatrick wrote an article for Fortune magazine titled Why Facebook Matters. Since his first interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Mr. Kirkpatrick has been given complete access to the Facebook operation and its key executives.

Kirkpatrick believes that Facebook is more than just another social networking[...]

Social media is taking over the world. It should be obvious to all of us that there are lessons that we should take away from this phenomena. The question is: What are those takeaways?

Tanveer Naseer, a self described business strategy coach, writer and overall good guy put up a post on his website titled, What Twitter Can Teach Leaders About Effective Communication. The four lessons he lists that we should[...]

If you didn't care for Facebook's recent site layout changes and policies in the past, you may not like the new features Facebook will be implementing in the coming weeks. Facebook wants to become your web browsing partner and be part of the functionality of every web site you visit in the future.

Facebook's new personalization features and plugins allow users to interact with their favorite web sites and share information[...]

The current model for most social media sites calls for free membership. Sites like Facebook make their money from advertising and premium features. The question is: How long will Facebook be free to use? There is a similarity between an addiction to social media and an addiction to drugs. The strategy is to get you hooked and then raise the price.

Most of my family logs on to Facebook several times[...]

Today is Twitter's fourth birthday. Whooohooooo! I have an ongoing love/hate relationship with Twitter. I have yet to decide whether Twitter is of any value to most people. Is it a valuable tool when used for its intended purpose? What is its intended purpose? I suppose Twitter is like an adjustable wrench. If you use it to hammer nails then it isn't worth the money you paid for it. However,[...]

Chatroulette is a website that pairs random strangers for the purpose of webcam based conversations. The site was launched in November, 2009 by a 17 year old Russian high school student, Andrey Ternovskiy from Moscow. The site has gone from obscurity, 300 visitors a day in December 2009, to over 500,000 visitors a day in February 2010. In fact, Ben Parr of mashable.com reported 4 days ago that the site[...]

Recent surveys indicate that Baby Boomers prefer Facebook 6:1 over Twitter. 50% of Boomers have profiles on Facebook. This shouldn't come as a big surprise to most of you. Facebook is all about keeping up with your friends and relatives on one easy to use page. And with Facebook, you don't have to check your wall/page every hour to see what is happening. Twitter on the other hand is more[...]

In a recent blog, "Technology: In Praise of the Blog Commentariat" featured on Psychology Today's web site, the author, Jim Taylor, took back an earlier assumption that he had made about the uncivil nature of the blogosphere. After condemning the blogosphere as dispassionate and demonizing, the author reversed course and stated that he now saw the blogosphere as a vital force in democracy that has flattened the playing field and[...]

At the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas last week, Ford Motor Company unveiled dashboard innovations that included being able to use Twitter and Facebook from behind the wheel. Streaming internet audio from behind the wheel is one thing, but social media? Presented as Ford's connectivity strategy, it appears that other auto makers will soon follow suit. Can you say distracted driving?

I have had a love affair with cars since[...]

Recent studies conducted by the Pew Internet and American life Project, as well as the Synovate market research group, found that people are ruder online than in person. The studies point out that more than a third of those surveyed are quite aware of the fact that they use language or words online that they would not consider using in person. I am sure this is no revelation to anyone[...]