The Privacy Tradeoff

July 14th, 2010 by Tom Wright

Do you have a Facebook profile? Regularly Tweet your status? Check in on Foursquare everywhere you go?
If you’re like millions of other Internet users who engage in those activities, chances are pretty good that you’re exposing a lot of personal information to more than just your online friends.
There has been a lot of backlash in [...]

What the heck is FourSquare and why should my company care?

May 26th, 2010 by Monika Royal

“I’m at Sanger & Eby (501 Chestnut St, Cincinnati)
How many of these tweets and/or Facebook updates have you seen from the people in your social media network? Tens? Hundreds? If you’re like me, you see these updates all the time. Whether at work, school, a restaurant or a bar, people are now sharing the details [...]

Introduction to Twitter

July 23rd, 2009 by Jay Larbes

What is Twitter?
According to twitter.com, “Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”
Twitter is a “micro-blog”. Like a blog, Twitter allows you to create an online journal or diary and share it with the [...]

The slow death of the first social network

June 29th, 2009 by Lisa Sanger

I read once that the most collectively oblivious people in the world are neighbors. I’m afraid I’m one of them. In these days of iPhones, Twitter, blogs and other internet phenoms, our face-to-face social networking has stalled. Well, it’s almost dead. After 8 years of living in my home, I just discovered that one of [...]

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