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 ...
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, ...
I was doing research for work, and compiled some interesting numbers regarding Facebook:
Facebook is the fifth most popular website in the U.S. (behind Google, Yahoo, MySpace, then YouTube) and also fifth globally (behind Yahoo, Google, YouTube, then Windows Live).¹
Currently there are 32 million regsistered users in the U.S.,² a number which ...
I apologize for going so long without a post. A new website, Remix America, has kept me busy. It's like YouTube for the political realm, but with some advanced features.
You can either upload original video content, or remix other works. The site organizers have amassed a collection of contemporary and ...
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 ...
Cuil, a new search engine created by many former Google employees, recently went live. Cuil (pronounced like "cool") is a search engine that differs from Google in two very important ways. First, page ranking is not determined by popularity, but instead by content analysis. (Google's algorithm relies on how often other ...
Someone tell me. I'm guessing Facebook started it.
Web design often differs between global cultures, but blue appears to represent social media on websites prominent in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Asia. Interestingly, when blue is not used prominently, a black/red motif seems popular. (YouTube, MetroFLOG, Netlog, Bebo, Tagged, Media ...
I use Google Alerts to stay on top of my company's image in the news and blogosphere. I automatically recieve an e-mail every time something new pops up, so rarely do I have to navigate to a search page and look for myself. Using Google Reader, I also use an ...
Compete reports that Plurk, a new micro-blogging site and competition for Twitter, saw a 929% increase in traffic in June, probably due to all the downtime Twitter users have experienced in the past month.
I figured I should try out Plurk, but when I first went to the site, it was down. ...
Here is a cool new use for all those pictures we all have on our various social networking sites.
Animoto.com is a web application that creates MTV-style videos with the click of a button.
Users simply choose a song and images. Animoto then automatically generates a unique video for them. No two ...
