Microsoft has launched a rather cool new feature for Xbox Live that lets you to export your avatar and share it with friends and family via email or Facebook and other social networking sites.
Free your Avatar also offer gamers a number of screensavers, wallpapers and festive cards added that you can use as seasonal backgrounds for your cheeky new Xbox avatar.
You can also create entire fami
FOR some time, Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest advertiser, has been dipping its big toes into the vast pool of Facebook, now the world’s largest social network. I recently knocked on the doors of both companies to hear how the experiment was going.
Certain predicted technological revolutions are more myth than reality.
After all, TV phones and laserdiscs were hailed as the wave of the future and yet, despite influencing today's technology, they've gone by the wayside.
Social networking sites might have seemed as if they'd follow the same route, but all signs suggest they're here for the long haul.
Employers are checking job applicants' profiles on sites like Facebook, Brightfuse and LinkedIn, according to a recent CareerBuilder.com survey.
This social networking site allows you to build customizable homes, and then interact with others in a sims-style area. It also allows for punching in the face, which is a feature other social networking sites have lacked.
Mark Wallace (3PointD) wrote an interesting Wired article about MTV's virtual worlds and the great cross-over opportunities between TV and 3D worlds. MTV’s betting that 3-D environments like Virtual Laguna Beach are the next logical step beyond what they call the classical model of 2-D social networking sites.
Even the lovable Disney realizes that they may be replaced with today's Internet economy. People of all ages are turning to social networking sites and have all types of gadgets to distract them from the Disneys of the world. With the Consumer Electronics Show highlighting some new ways to consume media on portable devices, mainly the cell phone, D
