Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

WordPress releases iPhone application

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Nick Bodmer

WordPress, the free software that powers this blog (and many others), has released a free iPhone application that allows for mobile blog posting. WordPress could not have made it easier to make quick updates on the go, however this comes at a cost of losing some of the more advanced ...

Sense Networks creates mobile platform to track socializing habit

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by Kyle Welter

Debuting its alpha product late June, Sense Networks has begun to implement their City Sense network throughout San Francisco and other smaller test grounds including Cambridge, MA. The idea behind City Sense is to utilize mobile tracking capabilities in order to process and display the movement of the people in ...

My first Photobucket image

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I was about to start a Flickr account, and then I realized it's owned by Yahoo. Lame. I went to Photobucket instead. (Don't worry; I'll try Flickr eventually.) I shot this photo today and uploaded it from my phone via e-mail: By the way, I just received a confirmation text message ...