• Social Networking

    Disable Facebook Chat

    April 19, 2009

    I pretty much leave my computer on and open all the time.  And more than likely there’s about 20 websites open in a browser (no, I’m not going to get into any arguments about what browser I should be using so suffice it to say “a browser”), spread across a number of windows, tabs, etc.  Occasionally I get a pop-up from someone wanting to chat with me through Facebook, whether I’m sitting at my computer or not.  Since there have been a few times when that happened and I wasn’t around, I felt like I was being somewhat rude.  So, I went ahead and went looking for a way to…

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    The Top Social Networks

    January 31, 2009

    It seems like I get an invitation to join a different social network every day.  Makes me wonder how much traffic these sites get and what the point really is.  Well, let’s break it down real quick.  Statistics first, the ranking by market share for social networks is as follows: MySpace -39.37% Facebook – 17.54% YouTube – 10.39% Tagged – 1.55% Yahoo Answers – 1.36% MyYearBook – 1.09% Yahoo Groups – .96% Meebo – .64% Yahoo Member Directory – .53% Bebo – .49% You might notice a few that you would expect to see in the above list, such as LinkedIn, Classmates.com or others.  That would be because forums are…

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  • Social Networking

    The Death of MySpace

    September 8, 2007

    It’s old, slow and really poorly designed (customizing profiles is actually a bug).  Facebook on the other hand is fairly lightweight, newer, sleeker and has a scripting interface.  MySpace is out, Facebook is in.

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