Check out a video on the Social Media Revolution.
Interesting statistics cited by the video:
Social Media has overtaken pornography as the #1 activity on the Web
1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media
If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd largest
The fastest growing segment on Facebook is 55-65 year-old [...]
I logged into GTalk on my iPhone recently looking for a friend and noticed a new Buzz link. Curious, I tapped on it and it told me “Safari Would Like to Use Your Current Location”. Anything that wants to automatically use my GPS location when I don’t expect it to creeps me out, [...]
An old scam has been updated for the mobile 21st century.
Apparently there’s a new phishing scam that’s targeting iPhone users. I guess this means that iPhones have really saturated the market.
According to Sophos, the subject line:
IMPORTANT: Your iPhone Warranty Extension for 1 Year!
The forged sender:
iphonewarranty at apple dot com
The phishing scam is trying to [...]
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The other day, I started seeing status updates of colors come across the News Feed in Facebook referring to the bra people were wearing themselves. It quickly devolved to guys messing around and posting things like “diamond studded”. Not only was it TMI (did my professional colleagues [...]
Yesterday, there was an earthquake and instead of Stopping, Dropping, and Covering as I had done many times during earthquake drills in elementary and middle and probably even high school, I just stopped… and then I checked the USGS website for the report. And when I got on Facebook and Twitter, I was not [...]
I remember the days of handwritten and typed love letters, but this was in high school… how the times have changed as you can see from the video. Someone emailed me a letter to proofread recently and I recommended that we use Google Docs instead of using Microsoft Word with the Track Changes feature [...]
Logged into my Twitter account today to find a new lists feature available to me (it seems it’s not rolled out to everyone yet). Twitter is following the tagging trend and you can now categorize your own Twitter subscriptions. Though similar to Facebook’s feature in allowing you to create lists of friends, I [...]
Despite my wanderlust tendencies, I do not have a carry-on suitcase of my own.
I used to have a 26″ suitcase until I lost a wheel. Poof! It was gone somewhere between the walk from the Airport Bus stop along Nathan Road in Hong Kong and my cousin’s place. And the ground started shaving off [...]
