Uptime and performance monitoring service Pingdom has done a study of social network uptime in 2008. They looked at some of the more heavily-used sites – Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, LiveJournal, Orkut, Bebo, Hi5, Windows Live Spaces, Last.fm, Classmates.com, Reunion.com, Xanga and Imeem. Twitter and LinkedIn experienced the greatest amount of downtime in 2008, […]

Longtime podcaster and new media consultant C.C. Chapman made an appearance on cable news channel CNN Tuesday, where he talked about how the coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration by social media: Embedded video from CNN Video Chapman created an early standout among music podcasts with his Accident Hash series. He also hosts the Managing the […]

TechVideoBlog has measured the HD qualities of the various video services now offering HD video sharing, and it looks like YouTube and Facebook are now the leaders.  Here are the specs they measured, along with links to example videos: Youtube HD: 1280×720 – 2mbit/s H264 – full framerate – 44hz stereo 254kbit/s AAC audio Facebook […]

It looks like everybody’s going HD. Facebook has announced that it will now support HD video: Since we launched video last year, more than 45 million videos have been uploaded to Facebook with approximately 100,000 new videos added each day. Starting today, you’ll be able to upload higher quality videos to Facebook and also embed […]

Apple has announced the top iPhone apps of 2008 (App Store link).  Here are the top iPhone apps for social networking: Top Paid Social Networking: MobileChat BeejiveIM Quip Rooms – Your Mobile Chat Client Twitterrific Premium Flutter Twittelator Pro mBoxMail Secrets hiCard – Suite Top Free Social Networking: Facebook AIM Myspace Mobile IM+ Lite Loopt […]

Wiggly Wigglers, a natural gardening mail-order company (which specializes in vermiculture: composting/gardening with earthworms) has won the 2008 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award. Wiggly Wigglers were chosen to receive this prize for their innovative use of podcasting, wikis, and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Along with the recognition and accolades, the Dell […]