We recently talked about an easy way to clear up email notifications, but that doesn’t mean Facebook notifications themselves aren’t still a problem. These notifications are great when they actually pertain to you and are relevant to what is currently going on in your life, but sometimes they simply don’t. It gets really annoying, and yes… this is all silly.

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It’s safe to assume that there are a lot of tunes floating around on the Twitter Ocean and it’s not only the Tweety bird that’s singing them. Monstro is a new Twitter based service that aims to be the deep sea mining vessel that can search the twitosphere and catch what’s being shared on the micro-blogging network.

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Facebook has a real name policy that does not allow pseudonyms, and they technically can revoke your account for using a fake name. However, that is soon going to change. Prominent users will be notified to verify their account, and when they do, they will be given the option to display a pseudonym, instead of [...]

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I love statistics and analytics. No, I don’t mean statistical analyses and finding what the mean and standard deviation of things are, I mean seeing statistics and analytics of things I actually use, such as websites and social networks. In the social network department, the most interesting one is definitely Twitter. Believe it or not, I’m fairly new on Twitter, and using it seems like a constant process of learning from what has already been done.

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As Yaara announced last week, NASA has recently launched it’s first Facebook app called Space Race Blastoff. Usually I’m not really into Facebook apps – they waste way too much time and I end up falling behind in my work. What I found with Space Race Blastoff however was that it wasn’t a waste of time at all. It’s a brilliant way to clear your mind, and it’s really fun to go head-to-head with other real players on Facebook.

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You may not have heard of the term Vaguebooking, but I can guarantee you will have seen at least one example of it in action. Certainly if you’re active on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any one of the numerous other social networks open to us all. In fact, you probably see it on a daily basis. If you have those kinds of virtual friends. There was a time when people kept diaries in order to express their innermost thoughts and feelings.

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Facebook have been under pressure in recent years from all angles to make privacy options simpler and quick to change. They’ve actually done quite well at this, considering how complicated the Facebook privacy system is overall. However, for those of us who understand the privacy controls well, there are a number of things Facebook could implement to improve the effect of privacy controls.

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Presenting a review of a fairly new site called Twylah. Here, Twitter posts now automatically become a part of an actual website in which the topics you write about get categorized and key worded for use beyond your Twitter stream. If you’re an avid Twitter user, company, celebrity or start-up, you will definitely want to use Twylah.com.

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In the last few months, Twitter has become my favorite social networking hangout, mainly because I find it less time consuming than Facebook and Tumblr, and I can certainly update it quicker than I can any of my typically abandoned blog sites. Most of last year I have been using YoruFukurou and a few iPhone apps as my Twitter clients, but now I’m giving the multi-platform TweetDeck a try again.

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A few years ago, I stumbled upon Twournal which can put your latest 3,200 tweets into a PDF or paperback book. When you see your Twitter content archived in one document, you gain a better appreciation of what it means to be a published author. Twournal allows you to create, buy and sell books printed from your tweets. Registering on the site and creating your first book is nearly as easy as signing in and allowing Twournal to access your Twitter timeline

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