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Well isn’t that just spiffy – get paid to make new friends

Being able to sift out the spammers, never-ending supply of social media gurus, and just plain irritating “let me show you how to get x number of followers’ is hard enough but now we ... continue

Going too far? Penelope Trunk’s miscarriage tweet divides social media types

Was it TMI or a welcome, candid look into women's workplace issues? Penelope Trunk, of The Brazen Careerist, tweeted to her now-19,000 followers during a work function that she was currently miscarrying. Like, that second. Trunk said: I'm in ... continue

The absolute best picture describing Web 2.0 and Social Media

This has to be the absolute best picture ever to illustrate the whole Web 2.0 and Social Media world – most days anyway. continue

Anyone with some attention to sell, I seem to have lost some of mine.

Did you see those last three Twitter messages that flew by? Did you really read all the messages posted to your Facebook timeline in the last hour? Have you managed to get ... continue

Once again @Facebook rips off @Twitter, but who really cares anymore

This is getting borderline ridiculous. The big news of the Internet today? Facebook yet again takes a page out of the Twitter playbook. As Duncan reported here earlier Facebook is starting to rollout ... continue

For all the good of social media is it fixing the root problems

Social media has become the voice of the common person who with enough pull behind them can make companies sit up and listen. Not everyone has that kind of pull but we all relish ... continue

Apple’s love/hate relationship with its users

Apple is an anomaly in today’s tech world. Long the mainstay of small segment of computer users it had a loyal following who would probably leap off of cliffs if Steve Jobs asked ... continue

The coming trust crisis in the social media expert space

I had the privilege of attending my second Gnomedex two weeks ago and there was a regularly used joke: everyone claims to be a "social media expert" just because they've used Twitter. The line may seem glib, but ... continue

Is Social Media ruining the good old heated debate

I was reading a post by Ryan Tate over at Valleywag this morning which lead in to posts by Edward Boches and Bob Knorpp where the common thread between them all being that we ... continue

Is McDonald’s playing the race card for profit with site for black people?

I gotta say right off the bat here that this has to be they fucking dumbest idea I have heard of yet. It is one thing for an entertainment network like Black Entertainment Television ... continue

Watch out for what you leave lying around the web

Ah the freedom of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, those places you can let your hair down and let loose with all the vagaries of your life. It’s so much fun to ... continue

Amid their decline newspapers still trying to figure out social media

I really don’t envy journalists in today’s tumultuous world of changing media boundaries. One minute they are expected to behave as journalists have have for decades and the next they are have to navigate ... continue

Ustream.tv Hits One Million Followers on Twitter

Online video and lifestreaming service Ustream.tv just hit the 1,000,000 follower mark on their Twitter.com/ustream account. Now, normally we wouldn't give a twitter account that hits 1,000,000 followers a second look (except maybe the Ashton Kutcher vs. CNN ... continue

Digsby steps into the real-time web

Digsby, a multiprotocol IM client as well as a social media client announced this evening a new version of their client that adds some new features to their already impressive list of supported protocols ... continue

Not enough Twitter followers? Pay uSocial to find more

Want to be on Twitter but don’t have the time or social media skills to find followers on your own? If that is the case then a new service from Australian social media marketing ... continue

Helen Thomas calls Obama administration out on social media smokescreen

Chip Reid and Helen Thomas gave White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs a four-minute chunk of grief over trying to "control the press" in a way Thomas said was worse than even Richard Nixon. Thomas, who has been ... continue

Judge Posner: Ban Linking to save newspapers

I think there should be a new law – lawyers and judges who don’t have the first clue of how the web works should automatically disallow themselves from any involvement with anything resembling legal ... continue

Who will be the John Lennon of Social Media?

Openness. Transparency. Bringing about a sense of change and responsibility. For my generation these ideals where embodied in people. People like John Lennon who typified all the good thing, all the ... continue

Habitat UK’s Twitter fail

UK home furnishings retailer Habitat is profusely apologizing after a pretty big fail on the social media front. Habitat's twitter page, @HabitatUK, got caught out spamming trending topics to get attention on the popular microblogging service. Okay, bad. ... continue