The Free and Open Internet* (see terms and conditions)

A free and open Internet, which I support, is frightening to most people. We all know the Internet’s a crazy place because many sites rely on their communities to police user-generated content. On social networking sites, we worry about predators and malware developers. And around every corner someone is trying to scam us out of [...]

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Why LinkedIn Attracts Fortune 500 Users…And Not Us…

Have you ever paid for a professional account on LinkedIn. Jesus, talk about expensive. A small account – which really doesn’t offer much more than the free account – is $20/month. Making this expense $240 a year. Not bad.  But not really worth your money.
But while we’re talking about things not worth your money, the [...]

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The Day Facebook Stood Still (or the lame blackout idea)

Dec 15 1 million users will choose to not use Facebook.

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Be Social: Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect allows Developers to make sites social without PHP & JavaScript.
Google just announced that your personal site can be a social network thanks to Google’s Friend Connect.
As someone who wants to design for arists, this new feature will be great for actors and artists that want an easy way for people to connect [...]

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Niche

Why niche social networks will become more lucrative.
There is a group of people that despise mainstream ventures. People that despise the Miley Cyrus/Jonas Bros. of the moment. People that despise the Hollywood blockbuster (or to theatre folk, those that despise film’s popularity over performance art.) This group instead prides itself in being part of a [...]

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LOL Lindsay Lohan Kicked Off Facebook

{via DListed}

So, I saw this post on DListed and couldn’t help but share.
Apparently the Facebook crew does not believe that Lindsay Lohan is in fact Lindsay Lohan. They think her account is a fake. So, they disabled her account.
It’s no biggie because Facebook doesn’t delete our information. She’ll probably get her account back. But oh, [...]

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Test Drive: I Want to Try It Before I Sign Up

Many sites want you to sign up, but the tumblelog My Soup actually lets you play around before you sign up.

I’m surprised this doesn’t happen on more social networks. Before I give you my personal info, let me make a test profile. Let me see if your interface is user-friendly.
Before I settled on WordPress, I [...]

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Just Because You Open a MySpace Account…

So much of the entertainment industry is only promotions, promotions, and promotions. The new production of American Buffalo with Cedric the Entertainer and John Leguizamo has been using social networks like MySpace and Facebook to promote the show. [Check out the MySpace for American Buffalo.] I think they still missed the point of user interface [...]

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