Yep, I got tagged. I wasn’t paying attention and clicked a link I never should have. So I’m passing this on to you guys. Do not click Twitter direct messages (Or any suspicious link for that matter) that say “This you?????” or “This you in this video?????”. If you do, then make sure and change [...]

Abstract With the rise of Web 2.0 social media has exploded on the internet. It permeates almost every aspect of your internet experience. The biggest question here is how can we utilize social media to enhance our online and offline lives? I have always been interested in how social media can help teachers and students [...]

Soon after Microsoft announced a deal with Twitter to include real time updates in Bing searches, Google fell in step as well. I have to wonder though. Will this be good or bad for these search engines? Will it bring us the information that we are looking for, or will it rend junk? At any [...]

I’ve been asked about Google Wave quite a bit lately. There are so many features to it that it is hard to condense into a few short sentences. So, I decided to find an overview vid to better explain this new innovation. Web 3.0 here we come.

I was pleasantly surprised this weekend to discover I was being followed on Twitter by @OrganizedPlay. This was the first I had heard of a new game/comics retailer in Knoxville. First Confession: I have not visited Organized Play at the corner of Cumberland and S. Gay St. Second Confession: For reasons that I will keep [...]

If you are into Twitter even a little bit then most likely you’ve heard of TweetDeck. With the new upgrade it’s versatility has taken it to the top of the Twitter clients and will even update Facebook. However, the plain gray interface is, well, just that gray….boring. Time to give it a little life. Below [...]

Like we didn’t see this coming. Twitter is getting sued. Seems like every time a web company becomes mainstream someone out there wants a piece of them. It appears that a company out of Dallas TX, TechRadium is claiming patent infringement. Evidently TechRadium has a platform that allows a single message to be sent to [...]

Twitter has acknowledged that they are experiencing an extended down time of 30 minutes or greater. According to Mashable one of the trending topics right before the outage was “twitter zombies”. Could this be a denial of service attack” ? And what would any one gain from an attack like this on Twitter? I guess [...]

…And how to fix it! If you have been on Twitter for more than 6 days you have seen what happens on Fridays. For those of you that have not seen #followfriday I’ll explain. On Fridays you list people that you would lke your other friends to also follow if they are not already. It [...]

UPDATE: Tweetdeck did not jump the shark with their new iPhone app and updates to the desktop version. They jumped in the pool, wrestled the shark by hand and ripped it’s eyes out, sucking the little sharkbrain out of the sockets for good measure. I have been on the iPhone app for several hours now [...]