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Clinton/Obama: who has more friends?

Who’s more the more popular Presidential candidate? We all know Obama is beating Clinton in fundraising, but the important question is, “who has more friends?” Hillary has only 143,313 friends and Obama has 183,736 . (Poor John Edwards doesn’t stand much Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:59 PM by KarinM | 2 Comments
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Facebook: the ACCEPTABLE face of blogging

Microsoft has invested $240m in social networking site Facebook in exchange for a 1.6% share of the company. That puts a value of $15 billion on a 3 year old company. BBC news did an article on “ 15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15 billion.” I found Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:14 AM by KarinM | 0 Comments
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Nokia buys Redmond Social Media Site Twango

Twango , a small social media site based in Redmond, founded by ex-Microsofties, has been bought by Nokia (for a reported sum of about $96.8 million, the Wall Street Journal reports .) My all-time favorite social networking site allows folks to share Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:44 AM by KarinM | 3 Comments

StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking takes off

None of us has trouble wasting time on the Web, but the social bookmarking service StumbleUpon makes random surfing a lot more fun. You add a toolbar to your browser then hit the “stumble” button to jump to sites you might like, based on preferences you Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 05, 2007 3:41 AM by KarinM | 0 Comments

New: Wikia Entertainment, Wikia Politics, Wikia Local Community

Wikia (the for-profit alter ego of Wikipedia – the collection of communities with websites that you can edit) just launched three for-profit sites: an entertainment community , a politics community and a local community . All sites allow users to blog, Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:57 PM by KarinM | 0 Comments
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YouTube has porn?

Sure do. This Mashable headline caught my eye cause I'm tired of flagging inappropriate content on photo sharing sites in hopes of keeping them clean for my kids. But YouTube's new beta venture eroticr seems to be doing porn right, with a dedicated site Read More...
Posted Friday, February 09, 2007 3:52 AM by KarinM | 0 Comments

Wikisari: the new Google Rival on the Way

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is about to launch a search engine intended to rival to Google and Yahoo. Wikiasari , which uses the same user-generated system as Wikipedia, may launch as early as the first quarter of 2007. It will be a for-profit project Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 5:28 PM by KarinM | 0 Comments

The easy way to add images to your blog

Think adding images to your blog is painful? Check again. I'm smitten with Twango . This new file sharing site hosts my photos and gives me tools to post them to my blog as images, photo tickers, or slide shows, and I can even swap out my photos from Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 02, 2006 7:29 AM by KarinM | 4 Comments

Testing my Twidget from Twango

Thanks to Don , my favorite Twango code monkey for this great slide show Twidget! Makes adding photos to my blog a snap! I'm lovin' my Twango . I can upload photos, music files, Word docs, PDFs, .zip files -- you name it, and share with the world or just Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:30 AM by KarinM | 4 Comments
 
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