Itamar Kestenbaum

The following comparison was forwarded to me by email from my friend Yossi Kahlon. The original source is unknown – but the message is clear. There are very few differences between a rock and the iPad.

Recently, YouTube have made it much easier for users to find friends through Facebook, Yahoo!, and Gmail (which has been possible for a while.) Now, they’re taking on Twitter with a new hashtag attempt. The hashtag is #SubSaturday, short for Subscription Saturday, and it will encourage people to recommend others for subscription the same way #FollowFriday recommends friends for following on Fridays.

Bit.ly have released Bit.ly Pro to the public last night. The addition to the already-free bit.ly will be a tool to allow individuals and enterprises to use their URL shortening technology to create their own custom URL shorteners. A few days ago, Bit.ly sent an email out to their waiting lists requesting that they make initial preparations. First, users must get their short URL, and second – they need to set up the CNAME to point to the right address.

So after doing my now routine post-update Facebook interface poke-around, I hopped on to one of my favorite applications - Zynga’s ATTACK! which is a game of Risk online. Yes. I’m a dork. You knew that already.

Anyway, it all looked pretty similar, except a little notification I got – and that notification carries a heck of a lot of meaning:

These sorts of news are kind of “whatever”, but have to be mentioned:

Apparently, there’s a glitch going on on Twitter where everyone’s tweet count has gone up ridiculously! I just recently tweeted that I had tweeted my eight-thousandth tweet, and my tweet count is now 24,117:

24,000 tweets?

Over the next short while, Twitter will be rolling out a new feature called HoverCards. It’s going to simply be an in-stream profile preview.

I’ve tried explaining Social Media to lots of people in different ways – and each explanation varied mostly depending on what the person I was explaining to was like. If they were not computer savvy, I might start off by explaining IM, Message boards etc, and working my way towards where we are today. If they were computer savvy but still skeptical, I might show them ways they might be able to use social media to their advantage. If they’re into sports, I can show them how MLB or the NBA are using Social Media, or how football players tweet!

Sick of Apple rumors? Burnt out by the iPad? Too bad – the rumor mill goes on! on the 26th, Apple were granted a patent on a proximity sensitive Input/Output platform. An Input/Output (or I/O) platform is any platform that helps a computing device communicate with the outside world. The details of the patent are as follows:

Google has recently published a video that explains in plain English what their privacy principals are. Their principals are as follows:

This is a guest post by Jamie Vidamour. Jamie is an IT Consultant in the offshore finance industry

Yesterday we saw the start of a revolution… A revolution that was inevitable and will change the way we read.