I've been doing my best to talk up GetGlue and AdaptiveBlue for about as long as Are You Screening? has existed. Unfortunately, GetGlue has long been one of those things that I love in theory, but in actual practice find myself using far less than I would wish. Like most things that have to do with social networks, GetGlue would take thousands of words to explain, but is nevertheless quite … [Read more...]
You may have heard me mention Neighborgoods.net before, and I would have told you more about it sooner, but the truth is that I'm rather lazy (and a little busy). The brainchild of Twitter Star and LA Derby Doll Micki Krimmel (@mickipedia), NeighborGoods is a social website that allows you to share and/or rent stuff you have and/or need. I'm reminding you again, because I just happened to find … [Read more...]
At the NewTeeVee Live conference, it was confirmed that starting November 17th, there are going to be a lot of new options for your XBOX360 and more to the point XBOX Live. Already putting together big pushes in the everything-in-one box theory with lots of XBOX Live options and the ability to stream Netflix movies, you'll now be able to Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, and plenty of other words that … [Read more...]
Somewhere in the back of our minds, we've all known that Twitter is in trouble. I don't mean because every once in a while someone wonders aloud how the thing is going to make anyone any money. That's somewhere in the front of our minds. The recent spin on buying friends for $1 pops the question up again, and we look at, and we talk about money often enough. No, I mean that thing we … [Read more...]
Facebook is now the focus of a lot of research, and rightfully so. As just one example, the University of Georgia found that you could diagnose narcissists with surprising accuracy by looking at their Facebook profile. Well…, they did something like that anyway. It turns out that narcissists who have Facebook accounts will have profile pictures that are really snazzy, probably … [Read more...]
