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David Letterman’s Top 10 signs you are obsessed with facebook

July 23, 2010 //
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10. You created a profile for your kitty.

9. If someone rejects your friend request, you show up at their house and tearfully demand to know why.

8. You have been diagnosed with something called “Facebook ass.”

7. If you don’t update your page for 10 minutes, friends assume you died.

6. Named your daughter Gracebook.

5. Only photos on your Facebook page are of you uploading photos to your Facebook page.

4. No number 4 – writer on Facebook – do you see the irony?

3. When wife sneezes you change your status update to “Gesundheit.”

2. If computer freezes, you start swearing like Mel Gibson.

1. You spent last Saturday night poking yourself.

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Internet News You Can’t Use

February 26, 2010 //
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Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter reaching 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are awesome to say the least. Jesse Thomas created a video with data from multiple sources highlighting some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. It’s a cool video and perspective for those trying to get a context on just how immersed web technology has become in our lives. In addition to watching the video below, some of the more intriguing figures shared in the video are:

  • There are 1.73 billion Internet users worldwide as of September 2009.
  • There are 1.4 billion e-mail users worldwide, and on average we collectively send 247 billion e-mails per day.
  • Unfortunately 200 billion of those are spam e-mails.
  • As of December 2009, there are 234 million websites.
  • Facebook gets 260 billion page views per month, which equals 6 million page views per minute and 37.4 trillion page views in a year.

On that note, time for me to surf the web!

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Lady Google caught in a bad romance

February 12, 2010 //
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Several months ago, Lady Gaga performed in Philadelphia where she sang, “I want your love, I don’t want to be friends…I want your bad romance.” Whether romance is defined as love or flirtation, many of Google’s romances have gone awry. Although a “Gromance” (Google romance) is not what Lady Gaga had intended, there are many to speak of:

  • Google and China
  • Google and Microsoft
  • Google and Apple
  • Google and Mozilla (Firefox)
  • Google and Facebook/Twitter

In January 2010, when Google declared it would stop censoring Chinese search results, shockwaves were sent across the business and political worlds. The issue became even more intense when Microsoft, who had been conducting business in China for over 20 years, expressed that a business must respect the laws of a country. No surprise given that Microsoft developed a search engine named BING…Because It’s Not Google.

Despite Google and Microsoft seeing the world differently, Google and Apple were a couple that had traditionally shared a rather warm romance. However, something changed causing that romance to become frigid. Google’s Android OS phones are direct competitors to Apple’s iPhone thus driving a wedge between the two companies. As a result, Apple entered into talks with Microsoft to assign BING as the default search engine for iPhone.

Not be left out of Lady Google’s bad romances are browsers. For many years Google had been a staunch supporter of Mozilla Firefox; however, the launch of Google Chrome and the aggressive promotion of the browser on the Google home page cannot be giving Mozilla much comfort.

On yet another front, Google has been an Internet trending topic at the time of this writing by announcing the launch of Google Buzz. One high tech publication categorized the social media service as a Twitter-killer. Perhaps a key driver behind the launch of Google Buzz was the company’s unsuccessful acquisition of Twitter along with Facebook‘s dramatic growth.

It has been well documented that Lady Gaga wrote Bad Romance to address being in love with one’s best friend. China, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Facebook, and Twitter are experiencing a Bad Romance with Lady Google but certainly not as best friends and not in the way Lady Gaga had intended.

     

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