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Saturday, 31st December 2011

Did New Year's Eve Well-Wishers Crash Twitter? [UPDATED]

There were reports of widespread outages of Twitter's main Web site Saturday, with speculation centering on the problems stemming from a flood of New Year's greetings. We asked Twitter for comment and will update as soon as we hear back. "Our engineers have identified the issue and Twitter is now almost fully recovered," Twitter spokesperson…

Social Dave Copeland comments

Dead? Social Media's Explosive Growth is Only Beginning

Social media, types of media where everyday people can publish and subscribe to what one another publishes, have changed the world. At least in the United States, though, their rapid expansion through acquisition of new users may be over. Facebook specialist Eric Eldon published a compilation of statistics from around the web this week on…

Social Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Friday, 30th December 2011

What the Social Web Can Learn from Burning Man

What the Social Web Can Learn from Burning Man

Burning Man is, in some ways, a virtual world. It's not unlike Second Life: a flat, empty plane onto which creator/participants build a temporary society however they can, making every decision into a work of art. Indeed, Second Life founder Philip Rosedale is a longtime Burner himself, and the Burning Man organization now holds an official event…

Jon Mitchell comments

How To Use Google+

Waiting for a Google Plus invite? Google is rolling out the service in waves and you can expect it to become a ubiquitous social option in the coming months. We have been playing with the service since getting invites yesterday and there are a lot of things to like about Google's new social initiative. Unlike Google's last big invite-only…

Dan Rowinski comments

Auto File Conversions with Dropbox

Computers keep getting closer and closer to making people obsolete. The latest step towards human obsolescence? Dropbox Automator, a Web-based tool for setting up actions that happen as soon as you put a file in a Dropbox folder. It’s not flawless just yet, but it might provide a useful service for many Dropbox users. The service is powered…

Joe Brockmeier comments

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