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Are you a Twitter Quitter? Your not alone.

In a recent survey by Nelson, over 60% of users on Twitter fail to return the following month to the site. Even though the social networking site has seen an explosion of users in the post Oprah & CNN Vs. Ashton Kutcher events Twitter is still only retaining 40% of it’s users.  Before those two [...]

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Thu, April 30 2009 » www » Comments Off

Why single word passwords don’t work

A recent explode of a hole in microblogging website Twitter.com shows that users should never use single word passwords. When subscribing to a new web site you usually think of a word that no one else will think of has to do with you, thinking that they will never guess that a goth girl would [...]

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Tue, January 27 2009 » www » Comments Off

Burger King Facebook Stunt Sacrificed

Burger King’s latest publicity stunt…and we’re not talking about the Burger King perfume…on Facebook, who sites privacy concerns for it’s reason to close the application called “The Whopper Sacrifice”. The campaign asked for users of Facebook to drop 10 of their online “freinds” after registering for the application on the social networking site.  Once the [...]

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Thu, January 15 2009 » www » Comments Off

Facebook Connects with it’s new service…should you?

On Sunday Facebook has launched their new “Facebook Connect” service which allows users to share their Facebook page with other online social media sites.  The idea of connecting many sites, such as Twitter, Digg, CBS with Facebook may seem like a great idea.  Before you make the jump for the sake of convenience use caution. [...]

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Mon, December 1 2008 » www » Comments Off

Yahoo! to launch new platform to help boost traffic

Yahoo! has been making plans for sometime to allow developers in and help build software based on a the Yahoo! platform. On Tuesday the “rewiring” will start.  Developers will now be able to create applications to work with many of Yahoo!’s current line-up of software, like Mail and Search. New capabilities will be built into [...]

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Thu, October 30 2008 » www » Comments Off