The Internet

Social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace reveal a lot of information about you.  For your friends, that’s a good way to keep in touch with each other.  For others, that’s a good source of details they can try to use against you.  Everybody has received scam or phishing emails by now, but enterprising folks have begun to mine data from social networking sites to use in these scams, as shown in this TechCrunch link (more…)

Is it too early to start talking about the Super Bowl yet?  If you’re a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Arizona Cardinals, or greasy and grilled foodstuffs, probably not.  Now that the participants have been finalized, you can start making plans for your Super Bowl party.  There are a few online tools to help you get your invitations and provisions organized: (more…)

If you’ve got multiple social media accounts, it might be hard to keep every account up-to-date when it comes to your status (and let’s face it, you’ll just feel all out of sorts if everything isn’t up-to-date).  There’s no magic button that will update both MySpace and Facebook at the same time, but you can set it up to update them all with one click by using an intermediary service: Twitter.

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Now that you’ve got your photo editors in place, you’ve got to find a place to put them so others can see them.  There are a staggering amount of choices here, but they break down into a few categories.

1. Photo hosting sites
2. Social networking sites
3. Blog sites (more…)

I’m not going to make any judgments about watching MySpace videos on your mobile device.  If you have one of the supported devices and need to catch some videos on the road, MySpace has made it possible for you.  Link it up immediately if you need your fix - MySpace even has a video showing you how to do it.  There’s no support for the iPhone just yet, so I’m stuck in the dark on this one for now.  It’s still a possibilty, as MySpace is still putting this service through its paces in beta testing.  But there’s no ETA now.  Let me know how it works for you.

MySpace rolled out their new profile editor Monday with the softest of launches - they’re not forcing anybody to use it for the foreseeable future, and you have 90 days to try it out before the changes become permanent.  At first blush, it offers some advantages over the older version, primarily because the initial design choices are a little more organized and a little more limited. (more…)