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According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly half of Americans use search engines, like Google, daily. According to my browser history, I visit Google 19 times a day, on average! So it's with that search obsession that in July, I completed my Masters thesis, titled "Media search ...
Marta Kagan, US Managing Director at Espresso gave a keynote last year titled "What the F**k is Social Media." This keynote is comprised of a nice overview of the space along with nice statistics that the last year has afforded.
Some key takeaway points:
Visiting social sites is now the 4th most ...
It's been a week since the Iranian government announced President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide election victory over popular reformist candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, which sparked lasting, national demonstrations. Protesters believe the election results are fraudulent, and see this moment as an opportunity for change, or perhaps revolution.
Certainly, if a revolution is possible, ...
Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is rolling out another Facebook redesign.... and shockingly enough, it seems to mimmick Twitter even further!
Announced today through the Facebook Blog, the new changes are quite extensive and are definitely the largest we've seen since the creation of the news feed. The first update is the creation ...
Intuit, the company behind TurboTax software, has removed a tax filing fee, after customers protested online.
Customers flocked to Amazon to penalize the product with one-star ratings, responding to a price hike and a contentious $10-per-tax-return fee. It looks like the price has fallen $5, and according to a press release, ...
Social media inherently gives power to the community, and new social structures like Facebook and Twitter are revolutionizing the way people fight against the injustices of their world.
But in the last couple weeks, the biggest groundswells have come out of a much older social media system: product reviews.
Search "Grand Theft ...
This years Olympic events are, for the first time ever, being provided in full on the internet via NBC's website. This is truly great for someone like me, who in years past has had a hard time keeping pace with the Olympics.
Every event. In full. High quality, and streamed right ...
Earlier today a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles. (Read about it on CNN.) As soon as I heard, I went to Twitter Search to see what people were saying about it.
A massive number of tweets have been published about the earthquake, and I'm so late to look that even though ...
Ars Technica has an interesting look on the current state of social media use in Congress, and how new policies put many Congress members in violation of Senate rules.
Ars Technica writes:
A political spat erupted in Washington, D.C., earlier this month over rules governing how members of Congress may use the ...
