Fat Bottomed Girls Make The Rockin’ World Go Round
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
Fat people are people too – and they can be beautiful. Enter the Fat-o-sphere, where women can have curves and be proud.
Networking your way to a job without leaving your computer
Categories: Career Week
Online networking is not meant to replace face-to-face networking. It’s simply a supplement. Social media sites provide quick, easy engagement with potential employers without having to spend time and money on 7 a.m. networking breakfasts or conferences.
Snack Attack: How we feel about ‘brand ambushing’
Categories: Business
“Brand ambushing” is seen as a way to cut through the clutter of advertising and shock consumers. The practice has been used by other brands like Domino’s and Wheat Thins. It works because it’s unusual, it creates a scene, and it really is surprising.
If Google Me is a Facebook killer, sign me up
Categories: Technology
The rumor mill is abuzz about Google’s potential “Facebook Killer” after Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted that Google is preparing to release a social network called Google Me to compete with Facebook. Well, it’s about damn time.
A Different Kind of Activism
Categories: Current Events
Generation Y doesn’t march on the streets. Instead they take to Facebook and Twitter to protest. Could it be, though, that this is just as effective?
Where you at? Check in.
Categories: Technology
Location-based social networking sites, such as Foursquare, Gowalla, and others, may be just the thing marketers need to improve advertising based on behavioral targeting. Even the verb “to check in” is changing in connotation, as these social applications grow in popularity.
We met online. LOL.
Categories: Lifestyle
Online dating sites like OkCupid and Plenty of Fish that cater to Millennials have soared in popularity in the past few years, and the trend shows no signs of abating. Even more traditional sites like Match and EHarmony have harnessed this demographic. It’s pretty simple. Gen Y loves online dating.
Video killed the radio star, Internet killed the MTV VJ
Categories: Technology
MTV is running a contest to fill the gaping holes left in our hearts by the departure of VJ favorites Carson Daly, La La Vasquez and Quddus (and, you know, actual music videos from the network’s airwaves) with something new – a Twitter Jockey.
What are the books that changed your world?
Categories: Lifestyle
A couple weeks ago, renowned author and columnist Susan Orlean created the #booksthatchangedmyworld tag on her Twitter page. Soon, the Twitterverse was abuzz and closely following her original post, the tag became a trending topic – and it’s still going. What are the books that changed your world?
LOL (Cats) is serious business
Categories: Technology
Ben Huh created the ICanHasACheezburger network of blogs and has since built an empire of silly inside jokes and internet memes. But the sites’ distractions aren’t necessarily a bad thing, and Gen Y entrepreneurs can take a hint from Huh.
