Category Archives: Social Media

How to find great Pins for Pinterest – a Pinterest Hack

Pinterest is a great tool for curating visual information, empowering people to form valuable mental connections between groups of related, and unrelated images in a central space. What I really find fascinating about Pinterest is the images are already curated and filtered by human beings and friends within your social network, rather than a web [...]

Facebook CIA Project

So funny. From the Onion.

Why Facebook is Making Us Miserable

I don’t usually post text based articles, but I was fond of Gulati’s synopsis on the Huffington Post of why Facebook has fallen out of favor for some young professionnals (including myself). The article is here. To summarize his article briefly, he touches upon three points: 1). It can fuel unhappiness or foster a sense [...]

Lil’ B the Based God Documentary

Bay Area’s rapper Lil’ B in a three part documentary exploring his use of social media as a promotional tool and his honest philosophies on approaching life. He seems like a pretty likable guy and a down to Earth character. Apparently he really likes the wharf.

1990s Flashback: MTV News 1995

My how things have changed in “cyberspace” in the past 15 years.

Anonymous to Destroy Facebook Nov. 5

According to a recent Youtube video anonymous is to tear down Facebook on Nov. 5th for selling information to various government agencies, advertisers and security firms. What’s interesting is the controversy surrounding the post and it’s legitimacy. On the Anonymous Twitter feed post 12 hours ago, it states “TO PRESS: MEDIAS OF THE WORLD… STOP [...]

10 Reasons Why We Hate Facebook

Funny puppet short by Gloves and Boots poking fun at Facebook. This video is going to blow up.

Facebook is really scary.

Was astounded to see the creepy facial recognition now Facebook now has last night. There’s a great video and article here about how Facebook is storing facial biometrics and its ability to match your photo to your name. Really, it’s a little creepy, that you have to opt-out, rather than opt-in for this somewhat questionable [...]

Blu makes social networking cigarettes

What will they think of next? Totally necessary that your smokes update your Twitter and Facebook and everything else.Link here to NY Times Article. Companies have started adding the ability to communicate wirelessly to an increasing range of devices, like tablet computers, cars and refrigerators. Now they are doing it with cigarettes. Blu, the maker [...]

Tribute to Malvina Reynolds and Ticky Tacky Mega Tagged Post

Little boxes of ticky tackey by Malvina Renyolds. Hate the folk genre, love the message and spirit. or this: or this:

The Holy Grail of the Cat Tree

This is really great stuff.

Foursquare’s future not looking bright with today’s Facebook announcement

Just a guess, but things are not looking so good for Foursquare… Info here. Facebook Inc. is expected to announced new location-based features for users of its social networking service on Wednesday. The company is holding a press conference at its Palo Alto headquarters where it is anticipated it will talk about features that take [...]