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Though the name Blog sounds horrible; perhaps the name of a large pool of dank, dark, brackish water that eventually spawns a monster so horrible, only the most stalwart of cleft-chinned heroes could possibly defeat it, Blogging really is nothing to fear. Really... Read more...

Microsoft has announced that next week--November 17th, to be exact--the Xbox 360 is to launch its much talked-about Facebook, Twitter and instant-on HD video Zune Marketplace features. I was lucky enough to have a wee go on them all earlier this year, so what do I think? Read more...

The human powered search engine is greater than Google, and Google knows it which is why this week Google unwrapped Social Search. Ask a query of the search engine and it will not only crawl the web for the best matches, it will also crawl people in your social circle to see if they've tweeted, blogged, photographed or offered up anything of value to your question. Read more...

Is it too early to say I've started planning my Christmas wish list? I mean it's after Thanksgiving and the commercials have already started. The egg nog has been in grocery stores for a week and the decorations have been at the bulk stores since August. So it's not too early, is it? Christmas season is book season and many new social media and business books have been generating talk across the internets this fall. Read more...

Ok, Thanksgiving is over and we are now in the long period between turkey-day and Christmas. In case you'd not noticed, various PR and Marketing agencies have ramped up their efforts on behalf of the manufacturers they represent to gain your attention for the upcoming holiday season. What's a shopper to do??! Read more...

Perhaps Jason Calacanis is on to something. About 2 years ago, the internet startup star launched something he called a "human powered search engine." Mahalo would have it's search results catalogued by people. It's that same human powered search that is allowing Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp and a little thing called GPS to change the way search is conductedand the real time information on the go they create blows Google off the map. Read more...

For the second time this month, Gmail has gone down, sending legions of geeks into a cloud spinning tizzy. When it happened on September 1, Michael Kwan posted a simple question to Twitter "What would you do if Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail were all down at the same time?" Read more...

There's an important part missing to most social media in this modern era of communication - the social part. Sure, we can sit in our underwear late at night and cyberstalk high school friends on Facebook and Twitter about the latest episode of Big Brother, but are we really being social? Read more...

When you come back from summer vacation and your neighbour drops the stack of newspapers on your kitchen table that you forgot to cancel, do you immediately sit down and stress about how you're going to read each and every one of the papers, or do you apologize for not cancelling and just toss the stack in the recycling box? We're so used to disposing of news in real life, why is it so hard to let it just slide past us online? Read more...

Facebook oversharing is akin to leaving all your doors, windows and harddrives unlocked. You wouldn't do that, so why do you share everything online? Obama chimed in to warn a generation to guard their privacy. Read more...

There's nothing I like more than free, and over the last few years I've been fascinated at the free culture that's been developing online. Google gives away free online office suites. OpenOffice.org lets you download their office suite for offline use. Authors and publishers are giving their books away. And now, so is my local library! Read more...

A little bit of everything this week, including Facebook privacy and apps, Xbox 360 price cuts, a new Sony eBook Reader announced, and something called Snow Leopard. Read more...

The social web is gaining a lot of fanfare as being the future of the internet. It's all about relationships and sharing and following and networking. However if you don't start effectively managing that stream you will easily drown in the flood of information. Read more...

Ah, summer vacation. The time you dust off that camera and take interesting photos of yourselves interesting places. But sometimes all doesn't go according to plan... Read more...

I was *this* close to closing my Facebook account. After all the privacy concerns and questions about deleting profiles and what would be done with your information, I was fed up. I'm so glad I kept it up. Last week I lost my "real" job and Facebook has been my key to reaching out and connecting with new clients. Read more...