social networking

A New Pond For A New Kind Of Fish

(Sep 10, 2012) Someone has to take the weight, or at least be on the lookout for you, we can’t do that all the time. The basis of Vancouve...

Social Sharing for Art Lovers

(Aug 06, 2012) “Hands with Money, Hands with Rope, and Observer” John Badessari Social networking has come to the world of art collec...

Scrapbooking For The Web 2.0 Generation

(Apr 17, 2012) So, the question is, do we need yet another visually based social network? Thus is the question that we approach when looking a...

Riot City Networking

(Jul 12, 2011) Well, that was different. Despite Vancouver’s best efforts to not repeat the last hockey riots of 1994, 2011 will go down ...

Where Have All My Friends Gone?

(Jun 23, 2011) Is it just me or is everybody on Facebook hiatus?  My online friends have been dropping like flies.  I get the sense that as Fa...

Going Soundcloud Watching

(Mar 29, 2011) The advent of Soundcloud in many ways was heralded the death of music-oriented elements of Myspace, or at least the ones that wor...

The Science of Sharing

(Nov 16, 2010) How many facebook friends would I have if I unfriended all the people I haven’t spoken to in years or wouldn’t recognize ...

Social Media with Heart

(Oct 26, 2010) Social media is definitely a-buzz and MyCityLives is Toronto’s answer to the new craze of location based networks. However...

Excellent Stay with Airbnb

(Oct 20, 2010) I recently had the good fortune of trying out what the SF startup Airbnb had to offer. The site allows people to rent a room or a...

A Twitter-Powered Magazine

(Oct 01, 2010) If you’re not on Twitter, you probably didn’t participate in 48Hr Magazine’s Issue Zero. Over one weekend in th...

Ten Vancouverites You Should Be Following On Twitter

(Aug 17, 2010) People always ask about the easiest way to keep your finger on the pulse of a city. Do you get your fixed gear bike out and traw...

Foursquare is Slowly Growing in Miami, But Still Lacks Must-Use Appeal

(Aug 03, 2010) Image CC by 2.0, via dpstyles on Flickr As someone who falls in the 25-34 age bracket, lives in a large city and goes out a lot, ...

Fashion decisions get crowdsourced

(Jul 30, 2010) Ever since reading about fashion websites that offer public feedback, I have been completely obsessed. A massive gallery of inter...

Status mania

(Jan 28, 2010) Who cares what you’re doing right now? I’m always astonished by the amount of information people post on their facebo...

Who to listen to?

(Dec 17, 2009) We’ve been hearing about James Cameron’s “Avatar” for what seems like an eternity now. At nearly $300 mil...