Social Networking
One Person Equals One Broadcaster
In the wake of the hotly-contested presidential election in Iran, internet social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are emerging as the primary—if not only—means of disseminating information in a country in which ... more
How to Put Our Country Further into Debt…
Virtual currency.
One of the latest crazes are virtual worlds, like Second Life, where users can create a character representing themselves (or someone completely different) and live a virtual life on the Internet. Users of these virtual worlds can do ... more
Microsoft Getting into Social Networking, Only in Case of Emergency
In a recent article posted by Tech News World, it was reported that Microsoft is in the beta stages with Vine, a social networking tool, but not in the Facebook department of social networking. Microsoft's Vine will only ... more
More Tales from the Dark Side of Web 2.0: Sexting
Mix together fuel, oxygen, and a spark, and it’s bound to happen—you’re going to get a fire. Mix together the ubiquity of cell phone digital cameras, the seemingly-private but all-too-public realm of digital friends and networks of friends, the need ... more
What Do People See When They Google You?
Have you ever Googled yourself to see what is out there about you? Or maybe someone you're dating to get some background info that maybe they're not telling you (dating 101)? Well now Google is allowing you to control what ... more
RUNmyERRAND.com
Ever feel overwhelmed with all the errands on your to-do list? RUNmyERRAND.com can solve your problems. They call it "service networking", and it seems to be a combination of Craigslist and eBay, where people can post errands ... more
True/Slant Tries to Marry Web Journalism with Social Networking
You can’t open a newspaper these days without reading of the imminent demise of the newspaper industry itself. Just last week, in fact, the New York Times Company announced that due to insolvency, it would shutter the venerable ... more
Widgetize Your Life with Bebo’s Lifestory
Digitizing your life just became more interesting with Bebo’s Lifestory, a new feature that Rafe Needleman, writing for CNet News, says “makes a fancy widget out of your life.”
Lifestory, one of the flashier new ... more
Facebook, Adobe Announce Partnership
Facebook and Adobe have announced a partnership to bring Facebook developers support for the ActionScript® 3.0 Client Library on the Facebook platform. The partnership announcement comes a day after it was announced ... more
Anchor Tweets: A Good Deal, or Too Much Information?
According to Howard Kurtz, writing in the Washington Post, NBC’s Meet the Press moderator David Gregory tweets in real time with his Twitter followers. Nightline co-anchor Terry Morgan offered Twitter updates on the day ... more
Hulu Amps Up Social Networking Features
Now the number two video sharing site behind YouTube.com after a year in existence, Hulu has embraced the social networking paradigm fully with Hulu Friends, a feature that Hulu hopes will increase the “community aspects” of ... more
Twitterview? Epic Fail
Anyone else catch . . . or attempt to catch . . . this afternoon's first-of-a-kind "twitterview" between ABC news correspondent and former Clintonite George Stephanopoulos and US Senator and former GOP presidential candidate ... more
Twitterview
Today, George Stephanopoulos and John McCain will be holding the first interview on Twitter, or twitterview, reported Tech News World. The duo will attempt to hold a full interview beginning at 12:00 pm while playing by Twitter's ... more
Boston Police to Experiment with Twitter Dispatches During St. Patrick’s Day Parade
As if a crackdown on public drinking during this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston wasn’t a radical experiment enough, the Boston Police Department announced that it will be conducting a trial ... more
Will Useful Tools for Venture Capitalists Increase Spending?
There has been a trend showing a decrease in spending from venture capitalists, as was reported in venturebeat.com, but that trend may be headed for an upswing. Monday, a search engine for angel investors was released by ... more
H&R Block Reach Out to Younger Customers Via Mobile Advertising
In a pilot program starting last month, tax preparer H&R Block is advertising a free online tax preparation service through ChaCha, an ad-supported mobile “answer” service with a core audience of 18-to-34-year-olds, reports Ad ... more
The Birth of MyLife
Reunion.com and Wink merged to create MyLife, a search engine of social networking websites, reported cnet.com. MyLife indexes more than 60 sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Twitter and more. ... more
Indian Culture War Takes to the Web
In what some claim to be a response to the “talibanization” of their country, liberal-minded Indians are taking to social networks like Facebook to combat a rising vigilantism against activities certain groups feel are not in ... more
Twitter: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Business Model
Or not yet, anyway.
“We’ve got a ton of cash. We have far more cash than we need, so I’m not in any hurry,” said Todd Chaffee, General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), according to Wired. ... more
Learning How To Trade with StockTwits
Twitter has noticed trends among tweets, or twitter posts, and has created niche sites similar to with the same functionality as Twitter. The first of these to come across my radar is StockTwits, a community who share tips ... more
Murder Mystery? Check Facebook.
Maybe officials should watch Facebook more closely to solve and prevent crimes and murders. Cnet reported nineteen-year-old Craig Ramsden changed his Facebook status to "I'm twisted at home. My head's up my *** . I feel like killing ... more
Keeping an Eye on the Battle of the Social Networking Titans
In a fantastic piece written for Social Media Insider, Catharine P. Taylor notes that according to an interview with Charlie Rose, MySpace co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson view Facebook—arguably ... more
Marketing Execs Say Metrics Are Not Enough
At an Advertising Research Foundation forum recently, Kim Dedeker, market research VP for Procter & Gamble, warned that market researchers need to shift their focus toward listening and developing ideas better on the front end, and ... more
Pope Goes Web 2.0, but Warns Flock of the Dangers of Too Much Facebooking
One of the world’s oldest and most widely recognized organized religions leaped into the deep end of the Web 2.0 pool last week, as Pope Benedict XVI unveiled his own YouTube channel. The channel will broadcast ... more