Posted on June 2nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Good news for chatty Chucks and Cathys: Sony’s PlayStation Vita does free Skype video chats. It also takes incoming calls during a game. Studies show that gamers use their machines as much for social reasons as for games. Owners of the older Playstation and the “PSP” (PlayStation Portable), can’t do video calls because the PSP has no built-in camera.
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Posted on May 22nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Classmates.com started ten years before Facebook, and in a flush of social media enthusiasm, we signed up. That was a mistake. Last week we tried to get out.
We weren’t trying to get our $39 a year back. Just cancel a
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Posted on May 6th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Kidfolio is a social network scrapbook for parents. Track your child’s growth and look back over a timeline of memories. And of course don’t forget to send photo cards. Find it here for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.
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Posted on April 14th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Pair is a free iPad/iPhone app for long-distance relationships. It creates a private channel where the two of you can chat, sketch together, post videos and other items that only the two of you will see. Your private timeline stays up for as long as you wish. It’s like a Facebook for two people.
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Posted on April 13th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Batch is a free app for the iPhone that uploads photos to Facebook as a quick batch.
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Posted on April 2nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
The Federal Reserve, that august body known for vague pronouncements on its control of the U.S. money supply, now has a Twitter account. When we last checked, it had almost 15,000 followers.
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Posted on March 31st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Ojolie.com: We did a search on “artistic greetings” and found some neat animated greeting cards. It’s $12 a year to join but the selection is fantastic. Very tasteful, not the in-your-face kind of virtual card. We also like the free cards you can send from MOMA.com, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Posted on March 18th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We’ve seen loads of books on Twitter, the social networking site, but a new book called “#tweetsmart,” by J.S. McDougall, ($20 from oreilly.com), is the first one we couldn’t put down. Lots of useful stuff here.
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Posted on March 16th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“The Social Radio for Twitter” lets you listen to Twitter posts from your iPhone or Android phone rather than reading them. If people start using it, maybe they can finally look up from their devices while walking or driving.
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Posted on March 5th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“The Complete Guide to Google +,” by Michael Miller, $20 from IdiotsGuides.com.
Google + is the Google equivalent of Facebook. It has far fewer users but is growing fast. It wasn’t fast enough to keep us hooked, however; we stopped using it regularly a few months after realizing that nearly all of our friends stayed on Facebook
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