In the time that I have been working in social media, I have seen how social media has been used to help launch a company, promote a product or even to help organize a protest. Last week I saw how social media directly impacted an event in my life by making the world that much smaller. This past Wednesday, I was lucky enough to marry the most incredible woman in the world, okay so [...]

This post was originally posted on socialmedia.biz on December 28th. You and your friends from all over the world walk into a bar on New Year’s Eve. The music is great, the bartender is friendly, and you and all your friends are dressed up in your favorite outfits. Your friend from London decides to pick a different song from the jukebox, your friend from Brazil decides to listen to the band instead, while the buddy [...]

Post written by Kevin Swaine I am not ashamed to say that I am, and always have been fascinated by time travel. Be it Doc Brown’s Delorean or the Doctor’s TARDIS, anything to do with time travel has me jumping up and down for more. You can imagine my joy when Facebook rolled out the Timeline option. One of the great things about working in a new media firm is that we found out about [...]

Post written by Noam Fixler I recently stumbled upon an application called “Take This Lollipop“. In order to enter this application, one has to allow access to their Facebook account and to their details. In the application, a serial killer is sitting in a dingy apartment logging into Facebook. But this creepy man isn’t logging into his own account, he is logging into your account (remember? You granted him access…). You are now looking over [...]

Post written by Kevin Swaine Last week Facebook announced another set of changes to the popular social network. In a surprise move, one of those changes gave the power back to the Facebook user to monitor what photos are tagged of him or her. As most people are trying to ensure that their parents don’t see pictures of them lying on the ground outside a club, passed out due to the drinking of their own [...]

Post written by Shahar Goldfinger Yesterday a friend took a picture of me and two other friends sitting together at a coffee shop with all our heads buried in our smartphones. When he was asked why he did this he yelled “This is what these <expletive deleted> phones are making us! We don’t communicate anymore! Every morning before I wash my face I check my phone! It’s not normal!” That got me thinking, is technology [...]

For the last few days I’ve been checking out Google+ and I must say I am quite impressed with the interface, real time updates, and of course the circles. When you go into the platform, you almost need to double-check that you’re on Google+ and not Facebook as the interface looks very similar. But has a lot of cool funky additions as well which I will go into more in detail below. So here are [...]

Post written by Jonah Balfour I’m still digesting the massive amount of announcements that Steve Jobs and Apple dropped at their recent WWDC keynote, but I was particularly interested in the new built-in Twitter integration that is part of iOS 5. There had been word about this shortly before the keynote so it wasn’t really a surprise to me, nor was it a particularly ground breaking announcement. It’s awesome, to be sure, but the integration [...]

Here at Blonde 2.0, we’ve decided to spice things up a bit. From now on, we will enable all the talented members of our team to contribute to our blog. The Blonde 2.0 series will feature news and reviews about the most innovative new technology, from mobile apps to Web services to all the latest news in the worlds of Facebook and Twitter.  In addition, you’ll also receive valuable information on how to best market [...]

Today a year ago, Facebook introduced its like button. Such a simple yet genius idea enabling Facebook to learn what every user’s interests are. In one year, over 2.5 websites have integrated Facebook’s like button on their websites, giving Facebook the ability to not only gather information about its users on its own site but also gather information about them from all over the internet. In this manner, Facebook had conquered the web. People’s behavior [...]