Image via Wikipedia Oversharers is a brand new web site started in January 2009 that has been silently collecting a large collection of people who share way too much on line. Given that the real time web is like watching a really bad episode of the Jerry Springer show, Oversharers is a laugh a minute comedy ride presenting information that people just should not have shared. Oversharers and Tweeting Too Hard are two different web sites but both will leave you laughing for hours becaus... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase Honestly, no one could be more surprised than I am about following in Robert Scobles footsteps. Back in August of last year I wrote a quick write up on how Robert got started in Social Media, blogging, and how he parlayed that into a viable career for himself. When Robert got started, blogs were still new technology, now we accept them as a day to day thing we read, visit, or do. Here is how my current career is following in Roberts’s footsteps 10 years after Rober... Read Full Story

The jobs news has been grim, states are starting to offer free or low cost access to courses designed to teach you how to run your own business. Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase Yahoo 360, one of the odder attempts at social networking is closing its doors on the 13 July 2009. In an email message to people who use the service they state: Dear Yahoo! 360° customer, On July 13, 2009, Yahoo! 360° will be closing and your new profile on Yahoo! will become the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most. With only fourteen days remaining, it’s important for you to save any information you’d like to keep, and begin tran... Read Full Story

Green Dam, a tool that has been mandated by the Chinese Government to help filter porn and violence sites, is delayed. But what is really intriguing is the idea that the country wide filtering systems in use by China, and many other countries and companies might not be up to the task of filtering all the content. Read Full Story

Well something like this had to happen; The Pirate Bay has sold to Factory X, a legit gaming company. The question is, what happens next, and can other bittorrent trackers like Mininova pick up what is going to be a huge surge in users. Read Full Story

Image by feastoffun via Flickr The new rage, stop blogging start life streaming is great if you have a life. If you don’t have a life, or you do not want to live on a public stage, then life streaming might not be right for you. Life streaming is quickly becoming the euphemism for people who are tweeting about their lives today, so thanks for sharing that you had a latte this morning, and that your car was starting rough (you really should get those belts checked on your car), or that... Read Full Story

Image via CrunchBase The hardest thing to do is associate a brand name with product, one way of approaching this is to use FriendFeed as a way to help you associate the brand name you are building with the products you are delivering. You can see examples of this littered throughout FriendFeed, and here are some of the more interesting brands currently using FriendFeed as a name/product association system. Fantagraphics – Fantagraphics is one of the older mainstay comic book publisher... Read Full Story

I seem to be on a FriendFeed kick today. If you don’t know what FriendFeed is, it is the more intelligent older brother to Twitter, but unlike twitter, has a wealth of information about what is being discussed, and a longer tail for following the conversations. Read Full Story

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21 http://ff.im/-4gKDu # Liked “Funemployed Collection” http://ff.im/-4hD6r # Liked “portraitsaslivingdeads” http://ff.im/-4glIk # Liked “Amazing Spider-Man .Info” http://ff.im/-4fKLD # Liked “Comic Book Resources > CBR News: HeroesCon: Runton and Staros on “Owly’s” Kindle Debut” http://ff.im/-4efVS # Older adventure comics cover - sorry I have been out for a few days - ok I have been gone a week, but... Read Full Story