Forget Twitter Pals: How Many Nigerian Scammers Follow You?

So what if @aplusk has well over four million Twitter followers, with @britneyspears and @TheEllenShow closing in? That doesn’t mean us regular folk, with 74 followers, have to hang our heads in social media shame. Having millions of Nigerian scam emails cluttering our...

Mom who tweets about 2 yr old's drowning and death raises ire

A Florida mother who tweeted about her 2 year old son drowning, and then tweeted again when he had died,  has sparked a debate about Twitter and the age of social media.  For a scathing condemnation of...

Facebook, Google Launch URL-Shortening, Bit.ly Brings Bit.ly Pro

Google has announced its own URL-shortening service called goo.gl, which will be deployed through Google Toolbar. Also, Facebook announced fb.me, a url-shortener to be used with the Facebook Mobile platform, as...

Osama and Obama Caught on Tape in a Flood of Idea Sharing

Osama and Obama Caught on Tape in a Flood of Idea Sharing Resulting in Economic Uncertainty According to a Columbia University study titled “What Kind of News do People Really Want?” published sometime in...

Teenage girl blogged about her painful road to death

For one year 18 year old Regine Hansen Stokke in Norway blogged about her fight against cancer. Thousands of people followed her blog  up to the day of her death. A longer version of this story can be found in...

Serious Journalism – A Social Media Possibility

I began experimenting with social media a couple of years ago. It started by simply commenting on various news media stories such as CNN and MSNBC. I took commenting seriously because I respected the sources and...

200+ Facebook Groups Have Been Hijacked By "Control Your Info"

As of yesterday, 286 Facebook groups have been hijacked by a team called Control Your Info. The group's aim is to point out the administrative flaws associated with Facebook groups, or supposed lack thereof....

Real-Time Search - 5 Reasons Why “We” Will Change the Web

If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon. Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has created a bottoms up approach to content creation that...

The 'Real-Time" Of Social Media

Few things have changed faster than the way we communicate. Coupled with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or green movement, there has been an explosion of information available about how and what companies and organizations are doing to improve society and the...

Is Your Startup a "Nice to Have" or "Must Have"?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and working to bring their ideas to fruition.Whether...

How Social Media Sites Can Ruin Your Vacation

I'm not talking about Twittering your followers while your laying out on the beach, teasing about how fabulous the weather is, or how warm the water is, or even how the scent of suntanning lotion is filling the air. Your followers will probably feel a little jealousy, but...

Burberry Goes into the Social Media Trenches: Art of the Trench

Burberry, the chav staple, is going into the trenches of social media embarking on a new social networking venture called Art of the Trench. The century old brand is getting with the times and unveiling...

Ivy Bean, world’s oldest Twitterer, turns 105 today

She was called “world’s oldest facebooker” at the time, but she dared not stop at this social media milestone. UK resident Ivy Bean, who turned 105 today, has joined Twitter in May, making her world’s oldest...

NowPublic *still* discriminates against microbloggers?

I am checking out NowPublic for the first time in almost a year, and I realized why I don't contribute to it: they discriminate against microbloggers/link journalists, they only deal in stories that are 100's of words long.Maybe *that's* why they went out of business,...

Welcome to the social media revolution

The social media revolution is absolutely all-encompassing and expansive in its reach. "Social Media isn't a fad, it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate." - www.socialnomics.com As social media...

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