Entries tagged 'social networking'
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
A Political Milestone for Facebook
Today, the Barack Obama campaign announced that the candidate has amassed a following of more than 1 million supporters on Facebook.
One million, four-hundred fifty-eight, to be exact.
To all of the political prognosticators who doubted the youth vote, let this just serve as one more piece of evidence that when given a voice, young people do care about politics.
We want to change our country for the better and we’re willing to put in the time and effort to make that change happen.
Look out Washington, D.C. A generational tidal wave is coming.
• Email This PostThursday, June 12th, 2008
All My Life Are Belong to Google
So for one reason or another, Google is running ran super slow right now for a period of time tonight with ping response rates at 3-4 times that of other major search engines.
The slowdown isn’t affecting all of Google’s properties — YouTube and Gmail are still running well — but is causing trouble with Reader, Search and Blogger.
During this time, I really began to realize how much I rely on Google for my daily Web life.
Despite knowing about the issue, I found myself repeatedly entering random words into Safari’s search box trying to move between sites. I couldn’t remember more than a handful of the 300+ blogs and news sites I read on a daily basis via RSS.
I felt cut off from the world, despite 99.9% of Web sites I might otherwise visit working perfectly well.
Just one more reminder that the name of the game on the Web is still search, despite all the hype over social networking, Web 2.0 and other technologies that steal our attention from time to time.
Alas, before I could even finish writing this post, Google’s webmonkeys had search up and running once again. Thanks guys!
• Email This PostFriday, May 30th, 2008
Social… Ice Cream?
Lee & Sachi LeFever of CommonCraft Media yesterday released the latest in their “Plain English” series of Web videos, this time, covering the broad topic of social media:
CommonCraft has produced a long series of these funny and easily-understandable videos, covering topics such as social networking, blogs, rss, social bookmarking, Twitter, wikis, and, of course, zombies. We even hired them to produce a great video for us illustrating how schools in California are funded.
Lee & Sachi do amazingly creative work and are a prime example of exploiting social media for fun and profit. Congrats!
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