On October 1, 100,000 lucky users got an invitation to preview Google’s new real-time communication platform: Google Wave. It combines email, instant messaging, chat, project management and social networking in a client that sits within the browser. To learn more, …[Continue]
How to Edit a Wikipedia Entry
Wikipedia is a collaboratively-edited encyclopedia, but only a small percentage of visitors ever contribute by editing an article. To learn how, start with this overview from Gina Trapani or the official Wikipedia Tutorial And if you think that the tutorial …[Continue]
What is Follow Friday?
Follow Friday, often abbreviated as #FF, is a weekly Twitter tradition of calling out your favorite tweeps (Twitter people) as a way of recommendation. According to Mashable , its history can be traced to Twitter user @micah who invented it …[Continue]
Twitter Search for Power Users
For Twitter power users, the single-tasked Twitter Search (http://twitter.com/search/ ) may not be enough of a good thing. TweetGrid allows you to define a custom grid of Twitter search results, such as 1×2 or 3×3, each cell displaying different search …[Continue]
How did Tagged Get My Email Address?
Although technically neither spam nor phishing, those aggressive emails from Tagged claiming a friend has sent you photos are certainly pushing the limits of netiquette. Ask Leo explains how Tagged.com got your email address and know your friend’s name, and …[Continue]
What is a Gravatar?
Gravatar is a service that provides a “globally recognized avatar” that follows you from site to site, identifying your comments and posts across the web. The free service currently works with WordPress, SezWho, and many other services. Chris Pirillo explains …[Continue]
Ruckus over Facebook’s New Terms of Service
Facebook’s recent change to their Terms of Service has created a firestorm across the web. The old terms of service said that Facebook could do anything they wanted with your content (subject to your privacy settings) but if you deleted …[Continue]
How to Remove Your Comments from YouTube
New this year on the popular video site YouTube.com is the ability to delete comments you once posted and now regret. To remove such a comment, login to your YouTube account, go to the “Text Comments” section below the appropriate …[Continue]
