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Article | 5/02/2011 What cloud computing means for the real world
There are more than a few critics of cloud computing, even at PCWorld; I'm probably one of them. But I've been turning over in my mind different persp...
Article | 13/01/2011 Curtains for MySpace?
Things just keep getting worse for MySpace. The former social networking hub recently announced it would cut nearly half of its global workforce as pa...
Article | 11/01/2011 Wikipedia celebrates a decade of edit wars, controversy and Internet dominance
Wikipedia and its users are planning more than 300 celebration events across six continents for the 10th anniversary of the free, online encyclopedia ...
Article | 14/12/2010 YouTube 2010 'top videos' list ruled by music
If YouTube started as a place for people to upload low-res videos, Google's global 2010 'most popular' video list shows just how fast the model is evo...
Article | 11/12/2010 Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers
Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small bus...
Article | 5/11/2010 First Look: Facebook Single Sign-on
Facebook is getting serious about on-the-go social networking with a suite of new features announced during the Facebook Mobile event on Wednesday.
Article | 22/09/2010 The five pros and cons of a Facebook phone
Is Facebook building a phone? The company won't say for sure, but for some the idea of a Facebook phone is social networking overkill. To social butte...
Article | 17/09/2010 Twitter 2.0: Not just for narcissists
Using Twitter is like being trapped in an elevator with someone who has a severe case of attention deficit disorder and just consumed three pots of tr...
Article | 6/09/2010 Did e-mail and the Internet kill the 9-5 workday?
Have you checked your work e-mailtoday? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that...
Article | 1/09/2010 Has Digg dug its own grave?
Some people just don't like change. Less than a week after Digg released version 4 of its social news-sharing site, fans have rebelled, flooding Digg ...
Article | 23/08/2010 Facebook Places vs. Foursquare: Who has the business edge?
Facebook's unveiling of Facebook Places is an obvious banshee cry to Foursquare and other location-based check-in services. As with those services, Fa...
Article | 21/08/2010 Can you trust Facebook Places?
Facebook, the company many people don't trust to protect their status updates and personal information, is now in the business of collecting location ...
Article | 17/08/2010 8 geek videos that aren't viral . . . yet
We scoured the internet to bring you eight of the funniest tech videos the web has to offer. Sure, they didn't feature musical pets or dancing babies,...
Article | 19/07/2010 PalTalkScene adds video to its chat
PaltalkScene is a full-featured messaging/chat program that includes video, audio, and a host of other bells and whistles, as well as the ability to s...
Article | 13/07/2010 Google and Zynga: 5 burning questions
Popular social games like Farmville, Mafia Wars and Fishville may soon be available to Google users, if recent rumors turn out to be accurate. Google...