Don’t Close Facebook; It Is Better to Add Your Boss
Following a British study about social networks
Social networks provide stability in work relations
It is recommendable to limit the number of minutes of personal chat
London – Upload photos or comment on the weekend on Facebook in work hours would not hold any reason to hide from the boss. A British study called “think tank” revealed [...]
Flickr Does Not Like The Human Body
The service from Yahoo censors all of the photo archive from a professional photographer because it showed pictures of nudity.
Fabio Bórquez discovered Flickr (the service to share pictures from Yahoo) in 2005 by chance and got hooked. “When I came to Europe I started from scratch and I saw it as another way to move [...]
Two Americans Create a Digital Drug for Second Life
The clinical test of the “psychotropic” drug will be carried out in a Los Angeles gallery and on the internet.
Are they artists or disciples of doctor Mabuse from the 21st Century? Is their creation a work of art or a new class of a digital hallucinating drug? It is certain that John Craig Freeman, a [...]
The University Course 2.0 Begins
Patatabrava.com goes from online to offline
The time of generic social networks has passed, now is the time for local networks with themes. This new university site means students can start taking notes.
Patatabrava.com has slowly increased user participation. Moreover students can send photos through the website which has a food product as its name, criticise the [...]
One of the Cofounders of Facebook Says Goodbye
Dustin Moskovitz decides to leave the social networking site to start his own business.
Facebook is one of the most important social networking sites reaching a total of 100 million users and it is still growing. Even through its success, Dustin Moskovitz is leaving the social networking site that he founded with Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 [...]
MySpace and Nokia Open Music Shops
Companies are ever more intent on competing with Apple’s ITunes. This time Nokia, the phone manufacturer and MySpace have an online community of 100 million users. Each with its own system.
Nokia sells songs for 1,5 euros and streams their songs (listening without downloading) for 10 euros a month with no limits.
MySpace streams their music for [...]
Tuenti vs Facebook – The Social Networking Battle
As social networking’s popularity continues to rocket to stratospheric heights, the industry’s competitors, seeing the potential profit, are pushing themselves to the maximum in order to become the leader.
It is a battle which benefits Internet users everywhere: the social networking giants are continually adding functions designed to make themselves a necessary part of the everyday [...]
MySpace Moves to Music Download
The social networking leader MySpace is set to consolidate on its already established appeal to worldwide music-lovers– by introducing a feature to download music.
Its 120,000,000 users will be able to listen to hundreds of thousands of songs from top international albums in exchange for viewing a series of adverts on their computer screen. On transferring [...]
Social Network Party Storms Spain
It not breaking news that Facebook has the world hooked. Every day, millions of users log-in to make plans, see photos, send news and find friends from years gone by. What is breaking news, however, is that these friends from years gone by are now inviting us to parties, urging us to get in touch [...]
The Imperfect Democracy of Menéame
On 7th December 2005, thanks to a Mr Ricardo Galli, a new Web 2.0 concept arrived in Spain – Menéame. Similar to the American Digg, the site works thanks to Internet users’ votes for articles which they find interesting, curious or fun. Or so is the idea…
The site is dogged by claims of bias, unfair [...]
