Posts Tagged ‘social media’

The End of Google Buzz

Published by technicalguy on October 15th, 2011 - in Social Media

Did you use Google Buzz? Do you know anyone who did – or still does? Probably not.

Google Buzz, launched in Feb 2010 as a competitor to Twitter, is now being shut down. The death bell was first rung when Google + launched this past June and Google has now made it official. Google Buzz will be gone in a few weeks.

Google also announced the end of the social features in iGoogle, and Jaiku

Twitter users are everywhere and tweet by phone most of the…

Published by technicalguy on October 15th, 2011 - in Social Media

Twitter users are everywhere and tweet by phone most of the time. This sign is funny now but also semi-serious. How many of us, in the back of our minds, would consider taking the photo and/or providing minute-by-minute tweets of the situation? Be honest folks – would you tweet?

Your Personal Wikileaks?

Wikileaks

Okay, so you probably don’t have secrets at the level of the US government – but you still have confidential data. Business trade secrets, personal and private information about you, and employees. Stop and think for a moment: what disruption and breakdown would occur if that information was stolen, or made public? (more…)

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