Google Buzz. It has a nice ring to it. It’s fitting, too, since it’s creating so much, well, buzz in the social media world.   Google announced its plans to go social this week with a format not unlike what’s being offered on Twitter. But while this may seem like just another large company recognizing the water is just fine …

The age old marketing mantra, “sex sells” was even more obvious this Sunday at the 2010 Super Bowl. As Youtube uploaded all the Super Bowl Ads as soon as they aired Sunday, one wouldn’t help but notice a common trend among many of the ads – Sex Appeal. GoDaddy generated a huge buzz from its “Too Hot for TV” campaign …

To mark its sixth birthday on Thursday, Facebook announced there will be 400 million people on Facebook this week. This number has more than double its user base of just 150 million active users barely a year ago. This level of growth has proven the year 2009 as its best year yet. What’s next for this social networking giant?

Twitter, in its surging popularity as a micro-blogging platform, is becoming the center of gravity for various scams and get-rich-quick schemes. According to the Better Business Bureau, scammers are having the time of their lives on the social media website, luring the unemployed and other victims who are tempted by get-rich-quick and work-from-home schemes. Such unscrupulous companies are on the …

On August 6, 2009, millions of Twitter and Facebook users saw their accounts come to a sudden standstill. Most of them couldn’t log in or send messages. Facebook users couldn’t upload pictures or notes, and Twitter fanatics experienced delays in posting updates or couldn’t access their accounts at all. Hackers took down the websites with an old-fashioned hacking tool called …