Posts Tagged ‘LinkedIn’

Connecting via Cyberspace

by VideoChick | May 6th, 2009

blogging-resizeA while back I wrote about the crazy Twittering life many people have gotten into, sending updates about everything they’ve been doing in their day-to-day routine. As if the world cares. Yet it seems like everyone, even

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn; networking sites just to connect with anyone and everyone. YouTube, text messaging and photos and video over mobile phones; sharing inane data on any subject to anyone anytime. Someone gave a page from a calendar with the caption: “Blogging – Never before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.” It shows a woman working on a laptop sitting on an incredible ledge over-looking what looks like Devil’s Tower in Wyoming  from Steven Spielberg’s  1977 movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” I love it. I hung it in my cubicle. Read the rest of this entry »

Will Google Gobble Twitter?:

by VideoChick | April 3rd, 2009

Twitter just might become the next Social Networking site to become a Google enterprise.logo-twitter

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We heard this morning from Shelly Palmer, host and editor of Mediabytes that there’s talk going around the circuit that Google is looking to add Twitter to it’s host of internet companies that it now owns.

Palmer’s blog links to a story in Tech Crunch stating that Facebook offered to buy the social site for a half a billion dollars a while back, but Twitter turned the popular social networking site down.

logo-facebook logo-myspaceFacebook, like MySpace, is a networking site where users can join others’ groups, and add photos to their pages and send messages, updates, photos and other personal information to their selected friends.  You can allow your page to be public or private, and some people like to collect “friends” all over the world. Read the rest of this entry »