Deconstructing the LEGO Internet

Earlier this week Jesse Stay, the man behind the Twitter service SocialToo, wrote a rather interesting post suggesting that in order to move the web forward to that mystical 3.0 version we need to start looking at ... continue

Social Media: The military to go where the Washington Post fears to tread

It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass of the Washington post sent to their troops about the use of Twitter and other social media services the US military ... 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

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

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

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

Montana city backs off of requiring Facebook passwords as job requirement

Remember a couple days ago when I passed along the news about Bozeman, Montana, requiring job applicants to had over their usernames and passwords as part of their job application? Well according to ... continue

Montana city treading some dangerous ground

I would bet that we’ve all heard more times than we care to count the old warning about being careful about what you post on the Internet because it could come back to haunt ... continue

Facebook grasping at API straws

I’ve been reading much of what has been written today concerning Facebook’s announcement about opening up the new Facebook Open Stream API. From that reading; including the official blog post by Ray C. He on ... continue

MySpace Gets Silverlight, Facebook Gets Flash. Winner: Facebook.

MySpace and Facebook have both announced new partnerships for rich media content within their networks. MySpace is teaming up with Microsoft to bring Silverlight functionality to its developer platform, while Facebook is introducing expanded Flash support for ... continue

MySpace Introduces Integrated Photo Editing Tool

MySpace has introduced a new option to let users edit photos from right within the social network. The built-in tool comes as part of a partnership with FotoFlexer, a Web-based image editing service. The newly integrated MySpace photo ... continue