Archive : Social Media

A couple of years ago Social Media and Social Networking website where more commonly known as Web 2.0. Web 2.0 was associated with web applications the end user was able to customise and share information with one another. More commonly know these days as Social Media and the top players are Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and long list of many others. Social Media has rapidly expanded in the last [...]

Let me ask a question? Would you leave you front door open, let anyone you do not know walk into your house, walk around uninhibited accessing everything in your house like: Photographs of your children? Your date of birth? You Social Security of National Insurance No? Your email address? Your telephone number? Enough information about yourself to obtain all the above? Where you work? Where [...]

Today is being dumbed as quit Facebook day. The formal Facebook revolt was announced a couple of weeks ago over the growing debate of how Facebook uses and protects individuals data and personal information. Only a few people have vowed to quit amongst the 400 million users. In response to the users concerns, Facebook have announced an overview of it’s privacy policy. So, are you [...]

This article isn’t about telling you what foursquare is. If you’ve found this blog, you will probably already be an active user of foursquare. If you do need more information about foursquare, I suggest you head over to their website: http://foursquare.com. This article is concentrates more on the practical application of this service for businesses: 1. Verify Your Location: If your [...]

I was listening to the radio today and I heard a story about a women who used FaceBook to find her estranged brother that she hadn’t been in contact with for thirty years. This got me thinking about family members that you have lost contact with or even family members that you have never met but no they exist. So, I headed over to FaceBook to have a look at whether any of the major ancestry [...]

Geolocation is the identification of real world graphical location of computers, mobile devices and web site visitors connected to the Internet. Geolocation information can include Country, Region, City/Town, Postcode/Zipcode and latitude and longitute. In the past couple of month two major players in the social networking arena have incorporating geolocation features and made this technology [...]

Google Buzz I’ve been using Google Buzz for a couple of days. It would appear the UK didn’t get access until a couple of days after the American’s did. This isn’t surprising as Google is an American company and their headquarters is located in the United States. To date, a couple of my friends and family have followed my on Buzz and I’ve followed them back. [...]