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10 Minute Guide to Plurk - Part 2

20 June, 2008 (23:43) | 10 Minutes, Help, Plurk, RSS Readers, Social Media, Social Networking

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Let’s Get Plurking
Welcome to part 2 of the Guide to Plurk. If you missed part 1, you can find it here.
It didn’t take me long once I started using Plurk to realize that I needed karma. Okay, maybe [...]

10 Minute Guide to Plurk - Part 1

19 June, 2008 (19:41) | 10 Minutes, Help, Hints, Plurk, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

There are a lot of people there who won’t “get” Plurk. It’s scrolling timeline and raging chats will throw them off. For those who are brave enough to spend a few days exploring, hopefully this guide will help ease the transition.

10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed - Part 2

6 June, 2008 (14:39) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, FriendFeed, Guest Bloggers, Marc Berry, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof, making it easy to keep up with what everybody is doing.

10 Minute Guide to FriendFeed - Part 1

5 June, 2008 (20:53) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, FriendFeed, Guest Bloggers, Marc Berry, Social Media, Social Networking, Twitter

FriendFeed is an aggregator for all your online social activities. It brings all your friend’s network activities under one roof.

Anonymity - Do the pros outweigh the cons?

17 May, 2008 (18:33) | Beginner, Facebook, Social Media, StumbleUpon

Is it better to share your information or do safety and security outweigh other considerations?

10 Minute Guide to Mahalo

15 January, 2008 (13:03) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, social networks

Mahalo is a social networking site that I haven’t really messed with outside of signing up for it. I’ve heard some good things about it, and I know that a few people on Twitter use it, but that’s about all I know.

10 Minute Guide to Facebook - Adding Friends

10 January, 2008 (10:17) | 10 Minutes, Allan Cockerill, Beginner, Facebook, Social Networking

By Guest Blogger: Allan Cockerill
How many friends can I add daily on Facebook?
What is the maximum number for friends I can have?
These are the two most common search terms which bring people to my blog.
The answer to the first question is: I don’t know, and nobody seems to know for sure, but 20 to [...]

Before You Network - Five steps to protect your information

4 January, 2008 (15:57) | 10 Minutes, Beginner, Social Networking

Regardless of how safe you think Facebook or any other social site is, remember that all of these companies are going to be trying to make money in some way. So, with companies claiming full use of your information, what can you do to protect yourself?

How would you describe Twitter?

21 November, 2007 (22:58) | Beginner, Favorites, Research, StumbleUpon, Twitter

Yesterday, Vince Bank, who subscribes to Guy Kawasaki’s tweets on Twitter, complained that Guy was “over-promoting his Truemors site” which prompted Dr. Mani, a friend whose blogs I really enjoy (and learn a lot from), to ask this question, “What is Twitter to You?”

Can clicking a link on SU cause your computer to flip?!?

20 November, 2007 (22:45) | Beginner, Cities, Help, Just for fun, Tricks

I know it’s easy to click on the place you’re from on SU and find others from the same place, but I can’t help thinking there are times when it might be nice to see a quick list of 100 people from a certain area (200 if you separate the list by men and women) and even more, the total number of people in the area who use SU.