Facebook

. Google is reportedly set to transform GMail into a social hub. The move will bring an additional screen to the GMail service that would broadcast status updates and link shares from contacts. Google hopes that users will be able to quickly integrate the new social aspect into their digital lives, just as GChat and Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Just as everyone is getting used to the latest layout, Facebook has begun testing a new redesign. In a move that could delight users who preferred old Facebook designs, the social network is now moving services that lay inside the Application Continue Reading →

Next on Digital Life. The Apple iPad is announced. Can a Facebook post land you in jail? The Pope becomes a social media guru and AT&T admits that it’s network has not met it’s performance objectives in key cities. Jack Myers and I discuss Apple’s plan to charge less for TV shows on iTunes, plus Continue Reading →

A girl convicted of killing her boyfriend while drunk driving is getting a harsher sentence due to Facebook. Ashley Sullivan, a seventeen year old from New York State, plead guilty to negligent homicide and DWI after crashing her car and killing her boyfriend. However, Sullivan was going to be charged as a minor until the Continue Reading →

If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. The Pope is urging Catholic priests to preach on social networks. Pope Benedict XVI is so adamant about the power of social networks he wants priests all over the world to post sermons and services to online video networks, Facebook and Continue Reading →

MediaBytes will be back on Monday. Until then, check out this week’s episode of Digital Life. Since this is “the” year of social media, I thought it would be fun to see what you were most interested in. Here are the top five posts (by page views) from my blog in 2009. The Real Time Continue Reading →