ABC journo Lyndal Curtis would love to get into Twitter — but she’s a bit too busy actually having a real life to bang out 140 characters about it every five minutes (heresy!). Are busy people being left behind in the “social media revolution”?
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Corporate blogging: Telstra tries again
After its last disastrous attempt, Telstra is having another crack at social media. Full marks for effort, says Trevor Cook, but it’s still little more than a bit of gloss on a dull, besuited corporate empire.
graph pr0n The social networking boom
Focus graphs the boom in social networking sites over the last decade — from early pioneers like Classmates.com to recent innovators like Twitter.
The world’s first Twitter-only gadget. Er, why?
Tech company Peek has created a hand-held gadget that only does one thing: tweet. For US$199, you can’t make phone calls, send SMS or check your email, but you can tweet on-the-go. Perfect for friendless geeks with no need for a real phone, we guess.
How I made millions spamming Facebook: an insider’s confession
You know those ads on social networking sites saying “Inbox (5). Nick, someone in Sydney has a crush on you!”, with your name, profile picture, and city in the ad? Dennis Yu made millions off them. He explains how.
MySpace and Facebook to team up?
Facebook has well and truly bested MySpace in the social networking game, but MySpace still has one ace up its sleeve: music and entertainment. Instead of competing, the two are apparently putting their differences aside to share content across the two networks.
MySpace surrenders to Facebook
MySpace has officially given up in its battle for social media supremacy with Facebook, the the company’s CEO now claiming it is far more interested in becoming “an online hub for music and entertainment.”
Whatever happened to Second Life?
A few years ago, you couldn’t blink without seeing a new article or news report about the online virtual world phenomenon. Well, it’s still kicking on, reports Chris Abraham, and it’s actually a much better place.
Social networks used to entrap homosexuals in Ghana
In Ghana, where homosexuality is a crime, one of the only ways gay people can connect is through social networking. But now people — with the help of the police — are also using this as an avenue for blackmail.
Gaming’s new frontier: social networking
Traditional video games take years to develop and market. Which is why social gaming (think, at a basic level, Scrabble over Facebook) is so appealing. Quick and cheap to build and with a massive potential player base.
Is your life ruled by 140 characters?
What are you doing? Do you only think in short, witty sentences? You know something is wrong when you’re crying over your Twitter addiction, writes Laurel Snyder.
Media frenzy appoints teenage digital guru
The blogosphere was abuzz yesterday with the news that Twitter was regarded by one 15-year-old from London as being for old people. That’s news?
Facebook’s privacy problems
Facebook wants its users to share more of their information and content with the rest of the web in an effort to keep up with Twitter. Facebook users… don’t.
Myspace unfriends 400
MySpace has laid off 400 employees as marketing revenue falls and Facebook takes the lead in the social networking stakes.
Murdoch’s MySpace mistake
Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, but only four years later, the social networking site has been usurped by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, and faces plunging ad revenue and massive staff layoffs.
Facebook’s missing fingers
Facebook is totally awesome except for the whole work/friends/family thing. Here are five things that the social networking site is missing.
Blogwatch: the Sorry edition
Social networking Sorry … Media reacts … Brendan Nelson not yet ready.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
It should have been obvious when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace … that there was nothing innocent or meekly - geekly - benign in social networking online. But somehow we managed to kid ourselves that it might be so.
Why MySpace for grown-ups won’t fly
New social networking site, iYomu, is better than MySpace. But it’s probably missed the boat.
