Facebook announced last week (15th Septebmer 2009) their news that they are ahead of schedule. Instead of becoming cash positive some time in 2010, this has already been achieved in quarter 3 of 2009. User registrations have now surpassed the 300 million mark too.
So what are the income sources? Silicone Alley Insider estimates the […]

Just come across this golden site that checks if your ‘user name’ is available across popular sites including twitter, technorati, ebay, flickr, smugmug, lastfm and many many more sites.

Usernamecheck.com is so simple to use. Just type in your prefered user name and see if it is still available!
‘njoy

account management, online tools, […]

Strategy Magazine have awarded the overall ‘Cause + Action 2009′ award to CBC’s One Million Acts of Green (OMAoG).
The awards recognise the best of Canadian corporate social responsibility plans and CBC and Cisco Systems picked up the overall winner award.
In less than six months, the site succeeded its named intentions. Cisco knew […]

Congrats to the great PR that Public relations firm MMW Group are achieving for their on-going online mothers day campaign for 1-800-Flowers in the US. The online campaign is a component of the integrated campaign including print and tv.
Focusing on online, it is refreshing to find a ready list of tried, tested and working […]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom declared yesterday what Californians who suspected for months that he is running for governor in 2010. He made the declaration to his already loyal supporters following him on Twitter:
# It’s official- running for Gov of CA. Wanted you to be the first to know. Need your help. Check […]

I heard a great comment on NPR this week; “Twitter is already OVER - even US Congressmen are using it”.
Social Media seems to be so fadish - look at how Facebook took over from MySpace?
I suggest the terminology is wrong. It is not ‘over’ but ‘comon place’ instead.
In the begining […]

Millennials (aka Gen Y) are people born between 1980 and 1995. They have always known a life with mobile phones, laptops and video games. They are the technology generation and tomorrow’s employees, world leaders - you name it.
Not content with the likes of Facebook nor Linked in, this crowd of self styled […]

In November, New York magazine (November 24th 2008, pg 184) dedicated it’s back page to pointing out the similarity between these two political sites;
http://www.netanyahu.org.il, Likud leader’s site.
and
http://www.barakobama.com, President Barak Obama’s election site that has emerged to become an ongoing communication site.
Sadly my hebrew isn’t that good so I can’t register and take a screen grab […]

Need a reminder on which sites make up the list of the most popular mainstream social networking sites? or Gossip sites? or Applications? or Video/Photo destinations on line? and many more categories that make up Mashable’s Open Web Awards. Just who got ‘joe public’ to nominate them and therefore have a […]

The US stock marked fell today (Nov 14 2008) as reports of declining stock held by businesses hit Wall Street. The contributing factors are enormous and complex, but could it be? wish is was, perhaps it’s really making an impact, the population have committed enough green acts to make a difference?
They didn’t […]