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Watch a video on Facebook, get a BOGO Chipotle deal

The masses of Chipotle fanatics seeking social media freebies are getting pretty easy to accomplish satisfaction today on the Facebook page for the new reality show America’s Next Great Restaurant. Watch a spot for the upcoming competition show, ... continue

Jury selection gets the Facebook treatment

Picking juries is tough and there are companies out there making lots of money as jury consultants to lawyers. Then there is the increasing number of problems being faced by the courts over jury members disobeying judges ... continue

ACLU objects to Maryland DOC request for employee Facebook logins

How would you like it if your boss listened in on your private, off-hours phone conversations or peeked into your bedroom as you engaged in whatever it is you do in there, I ain't judging? Is the ... continue

The Pope is cool with Social Media

Who woulda thunk it it eh; but it seems that the Pope, yes that Pope, is all cool and down with this thing called Social Media. Even though he warns against becoming obsessed or addicted to all ... continue

So, what do you think, are we obsessed with Facebook? [Infographic]

The funniest thing about this little bit of graphic information is that it came from Mashable (via a share in Google Reader). You know, the social media blog who would hit the Breaking News publish button if ... continue

When Apple figures out social networking, and they will, they’ll make a killing

Back in September 2010 Apple announced to the world that it had launched its own social network called Ping and for the most part the world yawned and went about its business ignoring for the most part ... continue

Web communities driven by haters, exclusion

If you want to make internet friends, according to a recent British study, you should be as much of an asshole as humanly possible when posting content to the web. Anyone who ever had a LiveJournal is probably ... continue

[Video] Australian journalist finds Tran family, is at Thanksgiving

As we posted yesterday, Australian journalist James West was successful in his bid to meet the Tran family and attend their yearly Thanksgiving celebration. West met the Trans this morning, and uploaded this video about his adventures in ... continue

[Video] Accidental CCing gets Australian journalist Thanksgiving invite from strangers after years of “eavesdropping”

This is really adorable. You may have experienced the phenomenon of the accidental CC- I was inadvertently included on a really boring email book club list, and they wouldn't unsubscribe me no matter how hard I asked. Australian ... continue

NYPD using Facebook, MySpace to gather evidence against criminals

Well, at least somebody is still using MySpace. [/obligatory] NYPD cops spoke to a local paper about how much of a boon the sharing-happy phenomenon of social media has been to investigations, since some folks, it seems, are ... continue

Stupid: ‘Super logoff’ Facebook to avoid interacting with people

Sometimes you read about strategies for interacting via social media that simplify things or alert you to a new, better way of using these tools to communicate with friends, co-workers, clients or relatives. Then there's this, which is ... continue

Law enforcement recruits asked to hand over Facebook passwords, text messages

If you're sworn to uphold the law or hope to be, should you have to bend over and allow hiring directors to sift through your personal communications and base personnel decisions on that content? If a recent piece ... continue

Future ex-Price Chopper employee illustrates how to use social media to damage brands and scare people

Price Chopper, a chain of supermarkets in the northeastern US, is rapidly trying to remedy a flood of social media backlash after one of their employees went off the reservation big time in retaliation for a Syracuse ... continue

Pennsylvania university bans social media for a week

A university in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has grabbed some headlines for themselves by taking the attention whoring step of banning all social media on campus for a week, except for on cell phones and smartphones, which kind of ... continue

Upcoming: Delete-a-Friend week on Facebook?

For every new, more convenient way to connect we're given by social media, it seems a frustrating new etiquette trap sidles up right beside it. Twitter was fun until spammers took root. E-mail provides a great way to ... continue

Now this is how you play the Social Media game

I'll be the first one to call bullshit on much of social media and how it is really nothing more than a game but what better way to have some real fun with Social Media that to ... continue

Investigation reveals massive conservative censoring of Digg

Wow, this will surely be getting the blogosphere in an uproar as the news spread but apparently Digg, and possibly other social networks, has been targeted by a large group of influential conservative members in an effort ... continue

Tulsa’s Double Shot coffee shop percolates Twitter outrage over breastfeeding ban

If you've been on internet forums or any social media outlet, you're probably aware that certain topics are almost always ground zero for a flame war- among them are circumcision, tipping waitstaff and breastfeeding. A Tulsa coffeeshop owner ... continue

Where can you get free cheesecake for National Cheesecake Day?

Did you know that there was a National Cheesecake Day, and today's it? While food holidays generally don't interest the general public, most people's ears perk up when they discover free or deeply discounted food is involved. And ... continue

Do foreign governments really have any say about Facebook content?

Martin Bryant over at The Next Web had a rather interesting post this morning where he asked; in relation to Facebook and the Raoul Moat tribute pages popping up, if the British government had any business asking ... continue

FarmVille gets its first branded produce

The still pretty popular Zynga property FarmVille is getting its first branded crop in-game in a partnership with General Mills subsidiary Cascadian Farms. FarmVille gamers will get the option of planting Cascadian Farms blueberries on their fake farms, ... continue

Old Spice guy wins at social media, bids romantic adieu to internet

It's kind of funny that true to his persona, the Old Spice "on a horse" guy totally did social media for a few days and rocked everyone's socks and now he's peacing out. It's like a storyline from ... continue