By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Facebook is suing Teachbook.com because of the word “book” in its name, reports CNN. Wow, that’s rediculous. Cookbook, Blackbook, and eBook have “book” in the name took.

It is pretty amazing that Facebook is going after a two-person startup. Clearly since…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Those of you who use Facebook have probably heard about Facebook Places by now. That alone has critics on their hot seat over the fact that your friends can check you into location like they can tag a picture of you.

Since…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Sunil Nagaraj is sitting in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. To kill time, he is people watching with his friend. They are guessing what people are like, judging them superficially by looking at how they dress and how they walk.

That’s also…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

It didn’t take long for rumors to surface, charging that Google is creating a social networking aimed to rival Facebook, after Google invested more than $100,000 into Zynga.

It plans to dip its toes into the social gaming word.…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Mark Coatney did such a good job with Newsweek Tumblr, he is now leaving the magazine for the startup blogging website, Tumblr.

In Coatney’s Tumblr blog, he wrote:

One of the reasons I’ve long been interested in online journalism

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Every wonder who Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is dating? And who Mashable’s Pete Cashmore is seeing?

Sure, after Facebook mucked up their privacy settings, the world got a glimpse of Zuckerberg with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.

The Harvard Crimson had long ago…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

So many print publications have died as advertising dollars have dried up. While more of our time is spent online, the advertising online budgets have been sluggish to catch up and the CPM numbers are way below other traditional forms of…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I am happy now — I survived my first story telling experience.

People told me I was “good,” but I won’t believe them until I see the video footage. Plus, is “good” the same as “nice” in the dating lingo?

I…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Yesterday, I wrote about Facebook’s privacy woes and shopping apps. These are the companies that are doing well because they collect data and turn it into something meaningful.

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and LinkedIn all use your data to either suggest…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Frustrated Facebook users have thrown a digital hissy fit over the latest brouhaha brewing over privacy. Tens of thousands of people pledged to Quit Facebook on Monday, but many got cold feet (or forgot to follow through).

But Facebook isn’t…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Snac is a startup that wants you to digest information in snack sized amounts.

Want access to the web in 2 seconds to check sports scores, stock, or the latest tweets, but only have an old school phone?

Well Snac might be able to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

We can like stuff all we want, but does that really reveal what we truly desire?

Scientists are finding that Internet marketers might be deceived by what they interpret as our personal tastes.

Companies like Amazon, TiVo, and Delta might be too quick to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Booyah raised $20 million for Accel. You might know about Booyah by their popular app called MyTown, which is a location based game app for the iPhone. Since January, the user base has grown from 450,000 users to 1.8 million users. Impressive!…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Facebook isn’t the only company that is under some heat over invasion of privacy. Google apparently has snatched personal info off of Wi-Fi networks.

This translates to 600 gigabytes of data from Wi-Fi networks in 30 some countries. And yes, that includes…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Facebook has been having some trust issues lately. Once you spend a few minutes on FacebookSearch, you might feel slightly violated.

For instance, type in “playing hooky” and you will get:

planning on playing hooky today – going to Iron Man at IMAX

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I use Skype for conference calls and for casual chatting. It owns a large chunk of the international calling market.

Now the Internet calling service is rolling out with a “beta” program that will let up to five people video chat with…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Ning launched in October 2005, as the brainchild of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen. For so long, Ning users could set up a social network for free, but the startup has just announced its plan to start charging.

The time is…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

As expected, the much anticipated people versions of Yelp just launched. Enter Unvarnished, a startup that wants people to rate others, just as they do places. Who in their right mind would want to be part of that? Who wants co-worker drama written…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

On March 18th, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York put a group of comedians against random Chatroulette players in front of a live studio audience. One man who thought he was “exposing” himself to a girl was in for a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The problem with Web 2.0 is not information. Managing and storing the data is the issue. Every time you upload a photo to Facebook or operate your business on the cloud, server farms are struggling to keep up.

WSJ reports:

“We’ve basically reached

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