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Tag Archives: Social Networking

06.20.11 / Social Gaming Saves Endangered Species

As the love of social networking continues to increase, so does the love of social gaming. Facebook games, such as Farmville, have become a major attraction among the Facebook population. It is often mentioned that these games can become an … Read more »

06.13.11 / Facebook Growth Slows

While Facebook is close to reaching 700 million users, it appears that the site’s growth has slowed. Until two months ago, the typical growth rate for the previous year was about 20 million users, but Facebook’s growth in April and … Read more »

04.4.11 / Facebook use and teen depression

In the most recent issue of the American Association of Pediatrics Journal researchers warned of a new condition named “Facebook Depression.” The condition is describes as, “depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on … Read more »

03.18.11 / Privacy- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others

So, have you ever been tagged by a friend in a Facebook photo and then had at least 10 other people ask to be your friend? Did you know who those people were? If you didn’t did you still accept … Read more »

08.13.09 / Whole Foods CEO Ventures into the Healthcare Food Fight, Gets Pie in Face

Forget all about John Galt. Just who is John Mackey? A former student of philosophy and religion at the University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970s. A vegetarian. A vegan. Or an ovo vegetarian, because the man likes … Read more »

05.14.09 / US Hospitals at a Very Early Stage in Digital Record Adoption

According to a recent New England Journal of Medicine survey funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, as it stands today, fewer than 2% of US hospitals have made the switch … Read more »

04.30.09 / Microsoft Getting into Social Networking, Only in Case of Emergency

In a recent article posted by Tech News World, it was reported that Microsoft is in the beta stages with Vine, a social networking tool, but not in the Facebook department of social networking.  Microsoft’s Vine will only be used … Read more »

04.28.09 / More Tales from the Dark Side of Web 2.0: Sexting

Mix together fuel, oxygen, and a spark, and it’s bound to happen—you’re going to get a fire.  Mix together the ubiquity of cell phone digital cameras, the seemingly-private but all-too-public realm of digital friends and networks of friends, the need … Read more »

04.17.09 / RUNmyERRAND.com

Ever feel overwhelmed with all the errands on your to-do list?  RUNmyERRAND.com can solve your problems.  They call it  “service networking”, and it seems to be a combination of Craigslist and eBay, where people can post errands they need run … Read more »

04.14.09 / Widgetize Your Life with Bebo’s Lifestory

Digitizing your life just became more interesting with Bebo’s Lifestory, a new feature that Rafe Needleman, writing for CNet News, says “makes a fancy widget out of your life.” Lifestory, one of the flashier new Bebo features, is more or … Read more »