Social Media Fanning the Flames Like Protests of the 60’s

• November 16th, 2009 by Tisha Tolar

The 1960’s are well known as a time of social change.  The picket signs, the handing out of flyers in local communities, the soap box speeches and the radical leaders announcing a call to action around public policies and for social reform are all ways that messages and information calling citizens to action were the way organized change and perceived… Read more

Bringing Home the Bacon Through Social Media Jobs

• October 22nd, 2009 by Tisha Tolar

Do you like to Tweet?  You may be in luck as companies are searching for social butterflies as part of their business strategy.  Companies that used to crack down on staff that used office time to publicize their latest adventures at the water cooler are now embracing their socialites to give a leg up to their on-line presence.… Read more

Google Labs To Allow Searches for Social Content

• October 21st, 2009 by Tisha Tolar

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA, the VP of Google announced that a new Google Labs experiment will be starting soon. The latest experiment will help searches find information from their social network contacts with every Google search. The project will be launching in the next few weeks. In order to use the service effectively, you have… Read more

MJ Dies, Social Networks Buckle

• June 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

Michael Jackson’s death not only affected millions of fans worldwide this week, but he nearly brought half the Internet down with him. Within minutes of TMZ breaking the story, traffic on Twitter spontaneously doubled, while Facebook updates tripled. Widespread slowdowns and outages plagued entire networks, with a mass effect not seen since the Google Failure earlier this year.… Read more

Google Makes Waves with Wave

• May 28th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

Audience members were recently blown away by the famed Rasmussen brothers at Google’s annual I/O developer’s conference when they unveiled their newest full-scale project, Wave. Lars and Jens Rasmussen earned fame (and a small fortune) when they sold what we all now know as Google Maps to the firm in 2005, and now they want to replace E-mail. No… Read more

Google Gets its Own “Fail Whale”

• May 20th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users.… Read more

Your Social-Networks Under a Microscope

• May 14th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

There is a growing trend that has social-networking users feeling more than a little paranoid these days.  Over the last year, one minor incident after another has drawn attention to and educated us on the perils of personal indiscretion on sites such as Facebook and MySpace, and services like SMS and Twitter.  Internet-witch-hunts take place to weed out suspected pedophiles… Read more

Kevin Rose on the Digg “State of the Union”

• May 6th, 2009 by Ann Smarty

TechCrunch recently sat down with Digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss the meteoric rise of the ubiquitous social-media hub.  Along with teasing us with hints, topics touched on include where it’s been, where it’s going, old rumors and new truths.  The surprisingly humble Rose opens up about previous failures as well as successes, and explains just what happened all those… Read more