As you’ve no doubt heard, Facebook rolled out some major changes this week—and even bigger changes will be hitting your Wall in the weeks to come. (More on those in a minute.) Many Facebook users were caught off guard by …
Continue ReadingAs you’ve no doubt heard, Facebook rolled out some major changes this week–and even bigger changes will be hitting your Wall in the weeks to come. (More on those in a minute.) Many Facebook users were caught off guard by the new “ticker” that now appears in the upper right corner of the News Feed […]
Continue ReadingI caught wind this past week of a new social network that hit the airwaves on September 14th. Erly.com, started by Eric Feng, the founding-CTO of Hulu, is deeming itself a “new social platform for organizing and sharing your personal content.” It’s attempting to shift our perspectives on social media: while most of our social media […]
Continue ReadingI caught wind this past week of a new social network that hit the airwaves on September 14th. Erly.com, started by Eric Feng, the founding-CTO of Hulu, is deeming itself a “new social platform for organizing and sharing your personal content.” …
Continue ReadingAvast there! As ye know, today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, but was ye also aware that Facebook have a pirate tongue option in ye olde language option list? Nay? Then follow this here map to pirate-speak treasure! …
Continue ReadingAs many of you after-hours artificers and weekend wizards know, Dungeons and Dragons has a new game coming to Facebook. Heroes of Neverwinter is a turn-based RPG that is sure to eat your time and fulfill you in ways FarmVille …
Continue ReadingMy wife was featured on The Food Network a few weeks ago. I say this not to boast or to call out how wonderful she is; rather, I do so to point out what a complete failure I was in …
Continue ReadingI’m a little embarrassed to say that I get most of my news from the internet. And not from a reputable news source. Most of the news I read about comes from Facebook and Twitter. This afternoon, I got up from taking a nap with my toddler to find my Facebook and Twitter feeds covered […]
Continue ReadingI just returned from the northern suburbs of Chicago where I had my 20-year high school reunion. I didn’t go to my 10-year reunion because I didn’t hear anything about it. Those were the days before social media. A couple years ago, though, high school friends started showing up on Facebook. It was fascinating to […]
Continue ReadingI admit it: I’m not a fan of Facebook. This week, with the emergence of Google+, I’ve been starry-eyed at the possibility of a new social media delivery system that allows me to do all the stuff I wanted to …
Continue ReadingThe week after we celebrate our 235th Independence Day, I give you America’s Facebook wall. Entitled, “Like It or Unfriend It?”, the image was created by author Teddy Wayne, Vanity Fairstaffer Mike Sacks and designer Thomas Ng. Nice little run through history, don’t you think? Another humorous composition about our history: the founding fathers tweeting. Remember […]
Continue ReadingI admit it: I’m not a fan of Facebook. This week, with the emergence of Google+, I’ve been starry-eyed at the possibility of a new social media delivery system that allows me to do all the stuff I wanted to …
Continue ReadingSam Calagione is a regular guy; he’s married, has two kids and loves beer. The catch, though, is that unlike many beer-loving dads, Sam actually gets to make and drink beer for a living. As the Founder and President of …
Continue ReadingSB242 is currently making its way through the California legislature and according to SFGate.com: “Under the proposal, social networking sites would have to allow users to establish their privacy settings–like who could view their profile and what information would be …
Continue ReadingSB242 is currently making its way through the California legislature and according to SFGate.com: “Under the proposal, social networking sites would have to allow users to establish their privacy settings–like who could view their profile and what information would be public to everyone on the Internet–when they register to join the site, instead of after […]
Continue ReadingWhen Shutterfly decided to revamp and update their photo book process, and needed someone to try it out, I raised my hand high. I’ve made dozens of Shutterfly books through the years and had some ideas about what parts of the process worked and what parts needed help. I was pleased to have my fellow […]
Continue ReadingA huge Thank You to Michele Wallukait Rajput for posting this awesome construction of a minifig Jamie Hyneman (from MythBusters, of course) to the GeekDad Facebook fan page.
Continue ReadingSorting through the daily influx of press releases that journalists like me face whenever they brave their inbox, this one caught my eye: “Are You Raising a Narcissist?” Having an only child makes me constantly on alert for signs that we’re spoiling, coddling or otherwise crippling him through our well-intentioned parenting, so I read the […]
Continue ReadingRecently we had a death in the family. My wife’s 2007 MacBook locked up completely: no on-screen movement, no keyboard access, no mouse control, no ‘three finger salute’ to kill the nastiness (which incidentally was a Flash game). She wasn’t …
Continue ReadingOur first experience with social networks involved lecturing and grounding. It was way back in the day, when Myspace was the place to be online and our oldest child, at 13, was just too young to be involved in that game. It was more about teens talking to each other, and if you believed the […]
Continue ReadingCalling all Star Wars, Sci Fi, and Geeks in general: Show your pride Friday! Friday December 10th is the day to show your Star Wars pride in support of our fellow Geekette, Katie. Back in October, Katie was suffering at the hands of Star Wars bullies. Thanks to the web, Katie has lots of love […]
Continue ReadingThe internet’s favorite little brown monster is now playing on Facebook. Or I guess it would make more sense to say that there is a Facebook game featuring Domo. It seems that Domo has taken a cue from Carmen Sandiego …
Continue ReadingOne of our many responsibilities as parents is keeping our kids healthy. And as mothers, it seems we make the majority of doctor appointments and are usually the ones who take them, too. However, moving into a new area can be a challenge. When we moved back to Oklahoma in 2005, we had to choose a pediatrician […]
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I really hate candy corn. Growing up in a family with a seemingly insatiable sweet tooth, hating any candy, let alone such a classic symbol of pure unadulterated sugar love, was a capital crime. Come Halloween we’d dress up and lumber over to my Grandmother’s house to meet the rest of the cousins for some […]
Continue ReadingA couple of weeks before school started back up, I took my sons to the mall to buy some new clothes. When we were done, the boys ran off to the Apple Store to ogle the iPads while I did …
Continue ReadingLet me begin by saying I’m not a parent – and this is probably a good thing. When I was a li’l tyke, things were different; the Internet was still an uncharted frontier that my parents were relatively content to …
Continue ReadingOnline privacy is a matter that we take pretty seriously, particularly when it comes to our kids, though we don’t all agree on where to draw the line. For example, some of us on GeekDad don’t use pictures of our …
Continue ReadingIf it can work for the last of the Golden Girls, why not Captain Tightpants? If it can work for Sue Ann Nivens, why not Rick Castle? Yes, following the Facebook campaign that successfully got Betty White a gig hosting …
Continue ReadingAre you one of the ten geeks in the nation who is not going to Comic-Con this year? Here is one of the huge cultural icons that will be taking the con floor by storm. The internet sensation Domo! The …
Continue ReadingPrivacy issues aside, Facebook is a popular way for many of my friends and family to share, comment, and now print photos. Yesterday Shutterfly and Facebook connected their intertubes and made it simple to print paper versions of your Facebook …
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