Yesterday was the first day of fall. I love fall. What I don’t particularly love is Facebook, BUT they have been making some pretty big changes and announcements this last week. Aside from the updates available to everyone now (the new ticker feed, subscribe button, featured stories, enhanced custom lists, etc.) they have also released a beta version more...
It’s becoming clearer and clearer to businesses that social media is a must. No longer can they keep their heads in the sand and pretend like conversations aren’t happening online about them, but instead need to participate. However, it is also important to know social media is not a one-size fits all space. Depending on your goals, and how your more...
Two men who attempted to facilitate disorder in London through Facebook have been sentenced to four years in jail. After being arrested last week, the two were sentenced on Tuesday. The charged offenders, Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Kennan are both in their early twenties. According to The Guardian, a Facebook event was created by Blackshaw more...
Everybody loves their coffee in the morning, for some it is routine and for others it is an essential part to starting their day. Jonathan Stark recognized this trend and decided he wanted to create his own social media experiment around it. Over the past week I have been reading several articles about Jonathan’s app that provides a reloadable Starbucks more...
A guest post by Heather Lennie Twitter has begun the process of establishing a system in which “possibly sensitive” links are marked. A notice will be placed on tweets, in order to warn the future viewer that what they are about to see could contain messages or images inappropriate for the workplace or for the viewing of young children. The new more...
Facebook and Skype have teamed up to integrate Skype video calling into Facebook. CEO’s of Facebook and Skype, Mark Zuckerberg and Tony Bates, launched the new chat feature at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California Wednesday. More than 60 000 people tuned in online Wednesday to watch Zuckerberg and Bates unveil their new calling feature via more...
While some Americans celebrated Independence Day with fireworks and barbecues, a group of hackers spent their Monday morning broadcasting false and outrageous news about President Obama. FoxNews.com’s political Twitter account, @foxnewspolitics, was broken into early yesterday morning. The account has over 34 000 followers. The hackers, who call more...
Eli Pariser, former executive of MoveOn and cofounder of Azaaz.org, has officially published his book “The Filter Bubble” today. The book and Pariser’s outlook on the personalized content we find online is quite fascinating. He spoke at TED earlier this year, sharing his ideas about the unintended consequence of personalized content more...
The news of Osama bin Laden’s death spread like wildfire yesterday. It was Keith Urbahn, chief of staff for former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, that tweeted “so I’m told by a reputable person that they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot Damn.” He did so about an hour prior to Obama’s address to the country, which confirmed more...
Online Cold War? The Rivalry Between Google and Facebook Continues
- 0 comment(s)The rivalry between Facebook and Google is heating up. Facebook admitted to hiring a public relations group to smear Google’s use of ‘private’ information. Over the last 48 hours there has a lot of activity around this story. Google was a trending topic on Twitter and there are also many articles and blog posts written on the rivalry more...