Facebook “Revamps” Privacy Settings… December 12, 2009

A couple of days ago I walked into my friends room and she was so concentrated on her computer screen that I had to ask her what she was doing. She tried to explain to me that Facebook.com has changed their privacy settings and she was trying to change her settings  back to what she [...]

Convergence for efficiency and cost December 7, 2009

Your Television is Ringing The title of this article made me think about how my TV at home actually does “ring”. When someone calls our home phone the phone number comes up on the television screen and gives you the choice to answer it or ignore it by using your remote to navigate. This new [...]

“Inside the Mind of Google” December 4, 2009

I was flipping through the channels, looking for something to watch and came across a CNBC documentary called “Inside the Mind of Google.” I am not sure if I would have been as interested in this documentary if I had not been enrolled in this class, but I learned almost everything there was to know [...]

social media fatigue November 28, 2009

On Thursday, Thanksgiving night, I was watching King 5 news. I was thinking I was only going to get updates about the shopping frenzy that was going to occur on Friday. Instead there was a small segment on social media fatigue. I had never heard the term before and tried to look for the news [...]

searching through wikipedia and delicious. November 26, 2009

On Wikipedia I searched through a few pages about Twitter, but for my project the most helpful was an article that gave me a lot of information about Twitter as a whole. It gave me anything I wanted to know about Twitter. What I liked about Wikipedia is that I was had the ability to [...]

Who wins? Android vs. IPhone November 21, 2009

http://www.navigadget.com/wp-content/postimages/2008/12/android-iphone-gps-game.jpg I have been an avid Blackberry consumer for many years, but the Android has sparked my interest. More often now do I see people with the Android. But what is the Android and what does it have to offer that its main competitor, the IPhone does not? Since the holidays are coming up this [...]

Are you verified? November 14, 2009

Having started my Twitter account a few weeks ago for my project, I have been searching celebrity Twitters accounts and seeing a white check mark inside a blue circle with the words “verified account” next to it. I assumed that this meant the account owner had been verified for Twitter. Many times we have heard [...]

“I like to talk on the phone.” November 7, 2009

In my research for my project I came across this episode of Larry King with Ashton Kutcher. This is an interesting conversation between King, who does not own a computer of his own and prefers talking on the phone, and Kutcher, who is the king of Twitter. The two of them discussed the benefits of [...]

project sources November 4, 2009

The first article that I came acros was from New York Times. This article talks about how celebrities take followers “backstage”. After reading this article I got more information about the craze of celebrity twittering and how celebrities take their lives and put it on Twitter. This will be helpful for my paper since I [...]

blogging is the new marketing tool. October 31, 2009

The increasing popularity of blogs has made it more common for companies to try blogging. It is an efficient and easy way for companies to reach their customers. Many consumers spend much of their time on the internet already, so why not create a company blog that your customers can go on. In some cases [...]