Tag Archives: social media

They Used To Call It Social Bookmarking

I discovered del.icio.us in a moment when I was almost getting crazy. My computer had some problems and I had to format it every month or so. Invariably, I was forgetting to save my Firefox bookmarks, and each and every time I was thinking how good it would have been to have a place where [...]

Why Do Chickens “Kotkodak”?

How do you call in English the sound of a chicken which has just laid an egg and is happy to announce it to the whole courtyard?
In Romanian, this sound is something like “Kotkodak”… funny… in Romanian… as if Romanian chickens would ever need to learn English to speak with Londonese chickens… I suppose chickens [...]

Tweet! Tweet! Follow Me, I’m Sweet!

I think I first heard about Twitter one year ago. Since then, I’ve tried, and tried, and tried to take a look inside, with no success. The only message I got was that “Firefox can’t find the server”.
But almost every other blogger writes about Twitter, praises Twitter, writes Twitter guides, or enjoys Twitter guides, so [...]

Why LinkedIn And Pen Names Don’t Go Well Together

I discovered LinkedIn a short while after I discovered blogging, and I thought it was such a cool idea, that I’ve started to build my LinkedIn profile right away.
For those of you who don’t know, LinkedIn is a place where you can connect with people all over the world, a sort of who’s who, where [...]

Where To Poster Yourself Creatively

It is unbelievable what people can do to themselves online these days. Chances are that either last Christmas, or the one before, you came across a funny Flash application called Elf Yourself, which allowed you to “lend” your face to a little, amusing, dancing elf. Or maybe you are publishing yourself every day, by writing [...]

How Do You Sphinn Today?

Some years ago, there was an international project meant to ease communication across different countries of the world. It was called Esperanto, and it was supposed to be a language with words taken from many languages, in order to create a new language intelligible by everybody.
These days, whenever I hear “can you digg this for [...]

How Much Is Your Blogging Zoom?

Until very recently, I was sure that only photo and video cameras had a zoom. Well, now also bloggers have their own zoom, thanks to Court and Vic, who associated to release a Digg-like place for bloggers: BloggingZoom, a place where all bloggers (and only bloggers) are invited to submit their articles, for the benefit [...]

Why gaming social sites is not worth the pain

Did it happen to you, in your childhood, to wish to be big for at least one day, to see how it felt like?
This is the story of a small site, wanting to take a look into the future and see how it is to be big for one day. This is the game and [...]