Brian Moylan, an editor at Gawker Media (and self-proclaimed “Gawker shit talker” on Twitter), remembers a recent spate of 20 minutes that seemed like the longest ever. He couldn’t click the refresh button on enough browsers fast enough. Having just spotted a Tweet on Billy Crystal’s feed announcing the nine-time Oscars host would be emceeing [...]
This year, editor in chief of Black Enterprise, Derek Dingle, started Tweeting. It wasn’t during a press conference. It was during a boxing match. He was watching Bernard Hopkins, who was about to become the oldest heavyweight champion ever, cheering him on through the social network. Readers joined his playful oldies-take-on-young-bloods banter. “Yeah,” one of [...]
The social media site started by three entrepreneurial moms and geared toward kids younger than 13 years of age, Everloop.com, announced a new partnership today with two globally recognized kids’ brands, National Geographic’s Animal Jam and Mattel’s Monster High.
The data-hungry among you may have noticed that Google Correlate, the research tool released by the Google team for experimentation in May 2011, has just graduated from Google Labs and can now be found on Google Trends. The newfangled research tool finds search patterns, ready for analysis, that correspond with real-world trends (think Bird Flu). [...]
Ah, to think back on all those jokes. “Do I Twitter?” went the classic question-in-response-to-a-question, often asked with a look of befuddlement, or boredom, or busier-than-thou disgust, and always followed by the “who cares what so-and-so ate for breakfast?” Well, a few fans of MC Hammer cared what he was up to (to date @MCHammer [...]
All eyes in retail (not to mention social media) darted to Walmart, dubbed the world’s largest retailer, in April 2011, when it surpassed competitors and forged into the social-commerce sphere by purchasing social commerce start-up Kosmix (now called @WalmartLabs) for a reported $300 million.
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Yelp , the popular city-guides website fleshed out with user-generated reviews of local business, including restaurants, bars and shops, is about to get a run for its money.
The desolate loneliness too often accompanying the toil of growing old may soon vanish. Or, in time, the burden may at least lessen. Thanks, that is, to social media and its power to connect people. Some older men and women, well into their 90s and on into their 100’s, are now being taught how to [...]
The ever popular social network for business, Yammer, launched in September 2008, recently announced that it is extending its platform across the network by unveiling Yammer Connect.
ESPN journalist Erin Andrews didn’t plan on becoming an advocate for stricter Internet security. Then again, she never expected to be filmed in the privacy of her hotel room, either, by a complete stranger, who was holding a cell phone up to a peep hole, in the sick hope she’d walk by. (It was later [...]
