I want to extend my sincerest thanks to Twitter for it’s new image sharing feature. Really, I mean it.

Now, you can share images on Twitter directly from your “What’s happening?” Tweet box.

It’s easy, quick & painless. The new feature is also compatible with yfrog, Instagram and Twitpic, so you need not fear that your current uploads will “disappear”.

Twitter has also added image galleries of the most recent images that a user has uploaded onto Twitter as well as having recently shared their image upload API to third-party developers.

Want to know how you can upload images directly from your Twitter account? It’s easy, just follow these steps:

Step 1: Create a regular tweet in your “What’s happening?” tweet box. Then click on the little camera icon in the bottom left-hand corner.

Step 2: Twitter will prompt you to upload an image from your machine. Your image will appear in your Tweet as a link.

Step 3: Tweet and voila!!

On Monday morning (2 May 2011) I was talking to my younger sister, who was also on Facebook at the same time. Suddenly she said, “Did you know bin Laden is dead?” I’ll admit, I was a bit sceptical, knowing that news sites are not her usual haunt on the internet. “No, really, it’s all over Facebook.” And that was how I too learnt about the death of Osama bin Laden. Not through the radio, or TV, or any type of news site, but through Facebook posts. (more…)

Have you ever been the victim of a Facebook scam? Usually when I see an email scam, (Your distant relative in North Eastern Guatemala has died leaving you a fortune! Send me money so I can arrange for you to get the entire fortune!) I think it is so obviously a scam, that how could anyone fall for it? Not so with Facebook and other social media scams. (more…)

With the internet now allowing anyone with an internet connection the ability to be a news reporter, what will happen to traditional news sources like newspapers and news on TV and radio?

There are already reports from many newspapers that circulation is dropping as more and more people opt to go online in order to find information for free that they would normally have to pay for. (more…)

On February 9 2011, an American teacher was suspended without pay for having vented about a few of her students on her blog. As far as she was concerned, the only people who would see it were a few of her friends, but somehow it got picked up by her employees, who needless to say were not very impressed. (more…)

Evan Williams became the Twitter CEO in 2007 and at the time, the company only had 20 employees & 3 million users – sending out about 1.25 million tweets a day.
Now in 2010, Twitter has grown to 300 employees, 90 million tweets a day from over 165 million twitter users.

Evan Williams has been involved in a few startups, one being the notable “Blogger”, which Google acquired in February 2003.
Williams founded Obvious Corp in late 2006, one of it’s projects being a free social networking and micro-blogging service named “Twitter”.

Just this week, Evan Williams stepped down from his role as CEO for Twitter, and made way for Dick Costolo to head the Twitter giant.
From now on, Williams plans to focus on his passion, product strategy.

Dick Costolo, whose track record is just as impressive, is the founder of Feedburner, worked for Google as a Group Product Manager, became the chief operating officer for Twitter in 2009, and now, is at the Twitter helm.

For Williams’ official announcement, go to the Twitter blog.

If you ask anybody which Social Networking Sites they use, the majority of people will say Facebook, and others may include Twitter. But just how long have Social Networking sites been a part of the web and our lives? We look back to what was possibly the first Social Networking site – SixDegrees.com, which was founded in 1997, and the many Social Networking sites that have popped up over the years since. Some have died along the way, others have just plodded along and others have thrived.

Social Networking sites, especially within the South African context, have only really taken root in our conciousness and conversations over the past few years. I recall when MySpace was the place, you had to have a MySpace account. Then came along this vanilla style, white & blue site called Facebook!  This simple looking site has taken the world by storm. Much like the Microsoft of the 80′s and the Google of the earlier millennium, this site is the juggernaught of  Social Networking sites, albeit with it’s fair share of controversy.

Social Networking Sites Timeline

As you can see, 2003 was when Social Networking started to gain “collective” consciousness and momentum. Sites like SixDegrees.com and Friendster were important players, and the likes of Facebook learned from their failings to gain worldwide popularity.

We are going to profile some of these Social Networking Sites over the next month, some of the more important sites that shaped the Social Networking space. So please stay tuned for more.

It has long been said that if you want to get the latest, most current news on any topic, Twitter is the place to go.

Don’t bother waiting for news on natural disasters that have just taken place to come out on the news TV channels, don’t wait for it in tomorrow morning’s paper. Just hop onto Twitter & you’ll find it there. These days, news hits social media sites faster than any journalist can write or speak.

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Had to chuckle when I saw this 60′s mockup of Facebook, Skype, & YouTube which created by the Brazilian ad agency “Moma”. The idea behind the campaign is that everything ages fast. The ad’s are currently been run in a Brazilian newspaper.

Enjoy, I know I did…

The internet has only really been around for most people for less than 20 years, yet its impact on the world has been immense. What follows are five ways the internet has changed the world.

Communication

Remember the days when you had to pick up a piece of paper and a pen in order to write to someone? And then you would have to go through the process of putting the letter in an envelope, stamping it and taking it to a post office to send. All this, and the card you sent for Christmas would invariably arrive sometime around Easter…

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