The advent of social media and online social networks has drastically changed the way we communicate. Not only are we able to consume information about any topic from anywhere in the world, but now anyone with any idea or message can make their message go viral across the world.But if it’s really true that anyone can reach thousands of people, how does one achieve this goal? Popular logic dictates that the answer is simple: Get enough people to follow ...

Storing a document to last for a long period of time in one physical location is not only difficult, but risky as well. Secure digital file storage is also problematic, with risks of lost external drives, corrupt hard-drives, missing discs amongst the many potential problems. The easier and supposedly safer option is cloud storage, which involves storing the document on a network online for easy, secure access from anywhere.iSigned.com, launched in July 2010, is an online file storage platform ...

A recent study conducted by SmartData Collective pinpoints the most frequently used and popular words in social media -- and those that are most likely to get you retweeted.The company used a system of predictive analytics that employed text mining to analyse more than 3 000 posts and identify the most important subjects. Text mining refers to the process of gathering high-quality information from written text.SmartData Collective's first task was to identify the most frequently occurring words in popular ...

What The Trend, which bills itself as the "Front page of the real-time web" (the company has also trademarked the phrase), tries to make sense of what is trending on Twitter. Every week the company compiles a list of what is trending and why.Last week, the world was buzzing about football and memes like "#ihaveafriend", "#icandowithout" and "#ireallythink". Of course, Twitter itself became news with the highly-publicised security flaw. The Bieber was also big news, not for his recent ...

Congratulations to Michael Arrington and team on the TechCrunch acquisition by AOL. Techcrunch is a leading Silicon Valley technology blog ranked 302 on Alexa's worldwide rankings and near to being one of the top 100 largest sites in the US.The terms of the deal have not been made public, however AOL will be required to make an SEC filing in the next few days if the amount is "material". AFP says various reports put the purchase price at between US$25-million ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, warned on Tuesday of the "blight" of new laws being introduced across the globe allowing people to be cut off from the internet."There's been a rash of laws trying to give governments and internet service providers (ISPs) the right and the duty to disconnect people," he told a conference on web science at the Royal Society in London.The "current blight" includes a French law that comes into effect ...

With annual global sales skyrocketing to over US$150 billion, and robust growth that has shaken off the recession, tourism is the 'top selling commodity online', according to Damian Cook, Founder of E Tourism Frontiers.This is good news for South African Tourism, the organisation responsible for increasing tourism to South Africa, which is staging this year's 3rd annual E-Tourism Africa Summit.The two-day Online Tourism Conference and Travel Technology Exhibition will be taking place at the Cape Town International Convention ...

AOL, the once high-flying Internet group which is seeking a revival as an online content company, announced Tuesday it had acquired TechCrunch, a leading Silicon Valley technology blog.Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed but various reports put the purchase price at between US$25-million and US$40-million.AOL also announced two other acquisitions on Tuesday -- Web video syndication firm 5min Media and Thing Labs, the company behind the Brizzly family of Web-based social software for creating and sharing content.AOL said ...

Facebook is a brilliant resource for musicians of all kinds. Not only can you connect with thousands of existing fans - essentially for free - but you can also make the most of tools which can help you promote your newest track, publicise your upcoming tour and win new fans, both local and international. And you don’t even need a record deal to do so.So how are our local singers, songwriters, bands, divas and DJs doing on the world’s ...

Seesmic Desktop 2 (SD2) is the new social media client on the block. It professes to be a desktop client from which "you can engage with various social media channels and accounts with power and ease". This article will look at three main areas of functionality to judge if it lives up to its promise.The Main Feeds Interface On first impressions the interface appears slick and minimal. Three tabs divide the functionality within the app into ‘All’, ‘Accounts’ and ‘Userlists’. Each ...