Socializing with Barack Obama - Democratic Party

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has launched his own social networking site, MyBarackObama.com. Like MySpace and Facebook, MyBarackObama.com allows users to create a profile, including uploading a photo to share with other users. Users can set up their own blog and write...

Obama Takes Campaign Online

"At his first rally since announcing his presidential exploratory committee, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) appealed yesterday for support from the young people who had mobilized for the event online. The gathering of several thousand students at George Mason University in...

Compete stats: Where do we spend our time--and register our identiies?

Susan Mernit has a great post about where who we trust our online identities to:"Jay Meattle's got a post --with data --reporting where Americans spend their time online. As you'd expect, MySpace, eBay, and Facebook are high on the list, proving the impact of social media and...

Web 2.0: Mirror, Mirror On the Web

A good read in the face of endless threads of Britney's crotch, emerging  cheerleading for Second Life, and fleeting celebrity.  While Web2.0 can talk a good game, the real question is somewhere in-between community intention and social responsibility. "There is a...

Hate speech at UIUC

"Great comment on the Facebook controversy over Chief Illiniwek at More on "Hate Speech": CUObserver, I take your point about people supporting and opposing the Chief for many reasons. Yet the fact that all organized Native American academic and cultural groups at UIUC oppose...

Defending mascots = attacking Indians

"The University of Illinois is investigating online threats made against an American Indian student on a Web page that defended the use of the school's Chief Illiniwek mascot, the university's chancellor said Tuesday. In a letter sent Tuesday to faculty and others on campus,...

NYTimes.com Announces New Tool to Enable Users to Share Times Content via Sel...

"NYTimes.com Announces New Tool to Enable Users to Share Times Content via Select Sites NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NYTimes.com today announced the addition of a new tool that gives readers...

New York Times Surrenders To Social News

"The New York Times has decided to let users post stories directly from their site to Digg, Facebook, and Newsvine. As of Monday, the paper will embed links to all three sites to most of their online stories. The new link will not be embedded into stories used on the...

Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage

Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Harvard undergrad students as an alternative to the traditional student directory. Its popularity quickly spread to other colleges in the US by word of mouth, and the site now registers close to 15M monthly UVs and over 6B page views...

Fastest Growing Web 2.0 companies

"New York—Web 2.0 is the fastest-growing category on the Web, according to panelists who participated in the session Web 2.0: Predictions and Pithy Analysis on Monday at ad:tech. Charlie Buchwalter, senior VP-industry solutions at Nielsen//NetRatings, said the sites...