Becoming a greater part of the social web isn’t about starting an account or even clicking buttons to the tone of “friend me” or “follow me”. Utilizing less mainstream social media takes time learning, researching and investigating. Before jumping into an online community, you should educate yourself on the clients or target-audience you [...]

Video games have always been popular vehicles for social interaction. Not long ago, gamers would flock to the arcade to fight alongside or against one another, exploring creatively designed virtual worlds. The arcade drew a large community with a common interest in gaming. There were flashing lights, prizes, and the erratic jingling [...]

MySpace recently released some APIs that will stream status updates and the like to other formats like Google’s search engine. This means that Google’s search function could potentially include up-to-the-second MySpace information as part of a search. MySpace could be considered a goldmine of information that has not been properly tapped as of [...]

According to the EtherPad Blog, AppJet–the program’s creators–have recently been acquired by Google. Etherpad is a program created to allow users to invite others to collaborate on a document.
So why would Google be interested in acquiring Appjet when they already have Google Docs? For one, AppJet’s EtherPad allows users to make changes to [...]