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The explosive growth of Pinterest, Instagram, Foursquare and Tumblr are no longer something marketers can ignore. And remember, user choice always wins; for every Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, there is a Friendster, Pownce and Gowalla.
In this messy, mammoth, modern, multi-dimensional media environment it can sometimes leave a writer wondering: who am I?
Apart from reminding us that racism is still alive and well in the Obama Era, these Gainesville girls also remind us just how easy it is to commit reputation self-sabotage in the Social Media Era.
This week we spoke to Chris Dixon, co-founder of Hunch. We thought we'd ask Chris what his news routine was -- when you're on the cutting edge of tech, information is vital.
The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users' phone address books without permission not only violates the privacy of the person using the phone but, potentially, everyone in that person's address book.
We're not really picking on any particular social network effort here. But why haven't any of these platforms truly caught on in the scientific community?
While we fuel our social networks with content like programming a television network, we sometimes forget that physical interaction can solve the challenges before us.
While we all know Lin was sleeping on his brother's couch a month ago, what about his numbers? A year ago he had a few thousand Twitter followers. Now, he has over 400,000. With 650,000 "likes" on Facebook and a Klout score of 82, you've got a viral phenomenon before your eyes.
If you ask me the real question is not why Chris Brown was allowed to sing live twice at The Grammys, but rather why was he allowed to sing at all... period! For an award show celebrating the BEST in music, shouldn't the BEST get to go onstage?
If social media is really a game changer, I'd hoped the new game might be more exciting. In reality, I know it is. So who is playing, and where are they?
The reality is that social media companies, while being toted as guardians of transparency and openness, operate like businesses. Yet the public has been slow to make this distinction.
It all starts sounding very depressing... and lonely. But fear not, the future looks bright. You see, we want to connect... and not just to technology, to each other. We may not be bowling, but we are finding each other in new ways.
During the last ten or twenty years, it's become tough for even the most savvy nightly news junkie to find out what he or she needs to know about the ongoing political circus in Washington.
After the Grammy Awards, countless Twitter users were stumped, asking the age old question: "Who is Paul McCartney?" This is a helpful list of Paul McCartney's many accomplishments over the years.
It may very well be "micro-blogging", but the recent global row over what were considered to be blasphemous tweets by a Saudi columnist have proven, yet again, how "macro" the impact of just 140 characters can be.
