There are numerous complaints about Twitter’s downtime, but that isn’t essentially why we complain. Yesterday, Pingdom released a survey of social networks and their corresponding downtime and uptime percentages from January -April 08. Twitter led the pack in terms of downtime. However, Twitter also had 98.72% uptime, which Mashable told us is reason enough to […]
Read moreGrand Effect: New Members To The Family
Grand Effect has more great news for you! Recently we announced the redesign and launch of the Grand Effect homepage along with a note for those who may be interested in sponsoring us. Today, we bring you three new members to the awesomesauce Grand Effect network. We now have: WinExtra – Subscribe Here Mark […]
Read moreSheGeeks Reaches New Heights
SheGeeks has been making some great headlines recently. I was interviewed by Allen Stern of CenterNetworks last week. I reached over 500+ subscribers a few days ago. Today, SheGeeks made its first headline on Techmeme (I think), and some great discussions have stayed ON SheGeeks for the majority of this week (here, here, and here). […]
Read moreGrand Effect Gets A Grand Redesign
As a proud member of the Grand Effect network, I’d like to note to our readers that the network site is up with an awesomesauce new design! A huge congratulations is due to Grand Effect member David Peralty of Xfep for his awesomesauce job with the network’s homepage redesign. See David’s post for further […]
Read moreIt’s OK To Ignore Social Media
Len Gutman recently write about feeling Social Media overload. While I don’t share his feelings about being overloaded, his post caused me to wonder if maybe we’re peer pressuring our readers into joining these services. Social Media Is Not For Everyone I feel as if most of us aren’t understanding this. Social Media is […]
Read moreWhat I Learned Without Twitter and Friendfeed
On Wednesday, I took a Twitter and Friendfeed hiatus for an entire day. Plenty of people thought it would kill me, but I want to thank you all for the support and well wishes. Here’s a breakdown of how it went. First, What Did I Learn? I think sometimes it’s easy to get caught […]
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