Sharing 101: What Is a Burst?

Back in the day, to communicate across distances, we used radios or telephones to send out high-speed transmissions, concentrated waves and pulses of information. Today the ‘Burst‘ enables communication between social networks that themselves use dissimilar data. One Burst allows you, for example, to share an embedded post via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other sites.… Continue reading Sharing 101: What Is a Burst?

Facebook Monopoly: The Board Game

The Problem: The Internet has become the ultimate time-suck where sites like Facebook, designed to make us more social, are actually making us more anti-social. That’s right, research studies at Stanford have shown that social networking sites like Facebook can increase loneliness, depression, and insecurity! Our web usage is starting to affect our ability to… Continue reading Facebook Monopoly: The Board Game