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Is Social Media ruining the good old heated debate

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?

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 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

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?

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

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

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

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 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 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
TweetDeck Adds Facebook Integration

TweetDeck Adds Facebook Integration

TweetDeck, the Adobe Air desktop Twitter management application, has released a beta version of its 0.24 release with added support for Facebook services. The TweetDeck 0.24 pre-release fully integrates Facebook functionality into the program in a few ways: ... continue
The Social Graph and the value of Like

The Social Graph and the value of Like

As we move further into a social media world where unlike anytime in the past friends can have a much larger and far ranging impact than before. This isn’t your father’s type of friendship as many ... continue
A return to silos – the big Web 2.0 joke

A return to silos – the big Web 2.0 joke

As we have moved along the timeline of what we refer to as Web 2.0 and social media one of the big standbys of the movement has been that of openness and transparency. At the ... continue
Facebook proves how lame it is – steals from Twitter and FriendFeed

Facebook proves how lame it is – steals from Twitter and FriendFeed

Before we go any further I should make something clear – just in case you haven’t figured it out by now – I am not a fan of Facebook. I don’t agree with its terms of ... continue
SocialMedia Networks Snags $6 Million

SocialMedia Networks Snags $6 Million

Social media advertising firm SocialMedia Networks has secured $6 million in fresh funding this Friday. The Series B dough comes from IDG Ventures SF and Charles River Ventures. SocialMedia Networks serves ads in about 5,000 different applications on ... continue
The new cool – Facebook parents

The new cool – Facebook parents

Back when I was nearing the end of my high school years; what isn’t surrounded in a fog anyway, the big psychological pabulum of the day was that the really cool parents where those that acted like ... continue
Could social media implode from too many friends?

Could social media implode from too many friends?

First came Web 2.0, which begot social networking, which morphed into a much easier term to hype called Social Media. While Web 2.0 is considered to be more of an umbrella term for a new philosophy for how ... continue