Facebook is starting to get email pushy

If you weren’t already aware, you have a Facebook email address, ending in facebook.com. And now Facebook is attempting a full domination of the communication world, by swirling together SMS, IM and email into one big Facebook messaging system. They introduced a Facebook messaging app for smartphones, separate from the (crappy) Facebook app, in order […]



Is Social Media Ruining Your Social Skills?

Schools.com recently collected a bunch of findings and created the infographic you see below. Personally, I just had the most amazing philanthropic experience on Facebook. My boss is desperate for Radiohead tickets and put up a post asking her friends if anyone had one available. Knowing what a hardcore fan she is, I clicked share […]

Dudes: Time to Club Away the Trolls

http://vimeo.com/44117178 Isn’t it about time that we stood up and said that trolling just isn’t particularly cool? I’ve never really understood the appeal of pulling others down “just for the fun of it” without really meaning what you’re saying, anonymous or not. I figure it’s a natural evolution of the phone pranking that used to […]



.LOL Dispute Could be no Laughing Matter

A dot-com speculator looks set to battle Google for the rights to operate an unusual website address domain: .lol Frank Schilling of Uniregistry and Google have both confirmed they’ve applied for the top level domain as part of a process that will eventually mean virtually infinite domains rather than the current system of country codes […]