Today is tech tuesday. The day I hold myself accountable to posting something techy to keep my readers informed as to what is going on in the tech and social media world. But today Apple goes out of its way to one up me. To hold a press conference on the same day I have tech Tuesday is just inexcusable! Apple should know better. ;) Ok, Seriously... today is the day that Apple should be introducing something. Anything. It’s been a...

You’ll be seeing all these new video’s floating around real soon so I thought I’d share this one called “Occupy Everything”. Vimeo is a small video social media network a lot like YouTube. It’s mostly for the artistic type as the video’s are high quality. Their iPhone app is free and there is even some video editing capability functionality on the app. The video’s on Vimeo are definitely of...

Those of us who hangout in IRC chats and online through Social Media knew this day was coming. Maybe you heard some of your techy friends dropping cryptic messages about how things are going to get a lot worse in this country before they get better and you had no clue what they meant. I know I was one of those people who was dropping those hints… Now, a day after over 500-700 people get arrested in Downtown Manhattan, it looks like...

It’s Tech Tuesday! What Topic to Cover? Between all that’s been going on in the Social Media World in the last week I had trouble picking just one topic for this weeks Tech Tuesday. Should I be reviewing Facebook’s major changes? Google +’s new additions to their iPhone app? Google +’s shared circles? Cityville arriving on Google+? The ramifications of Facebook collecting so much more of our personal...

As a student of Social Media I have been fascinated with the many ways Social Media platforms can be used. As facebook and twitter have been brushed off by older generations as a fad, the younger generation uses the tools they grew up with to organize themselves on a scale larger than humanity has ever been capable of doing in the past. I have blogged about the hacker activist group, Anonymous, in the past. They seem to do mostly good but...

I have not used Facebook much at all since G+ came out. I have no love for the privacy stealing, trust killing, monopoly called facebook but I have to be an early adopter of all social media platforms so I can get an early head start on evaluating them. Those were the two reasons why I have practically abandoned facebook lately. So it may be hard to imagine my reaction to using facebook to test out its latest features after using G+ for 6...

In Direct Response to Google+’s Circles feature Facebook has released a Friends list feature… In direct response to Google+’s ability to have public posts Facebook introduced the “Subscribe” button. Facebook Friends Lists Facebook officially launched its “improved” Friend Lists feature, making it easier than ever to view and share relevant content with only a select group of people. It’s a...

  Talk about cutting it close… IOS5 may not be released in time to be preinstalled on the iPhone 5. Recent buzz in the blogosphere surrounding the upcoming release of iOS 5 could help pinpoint a more specific launch time frame for the iPhone 5. Apple started seeding iTunes 10.5 beta 8 last week, iOS 5 beta 8 won’t be released until this Friday, 9/16. After beta 8, Apple will introduce a Gold Master build on or around...