Social Media

Call it the Facebook effect. Ever since the social media giant announced its long-awaited IPO the many gaming companies and social applications that use its platform are rising with the tide. SNAP Interactive, Inc., the parent company of the Facebook-integrated dating app AreYouInterested.com, has already seen its stock go up 230 percent since the beginning [...]

Inside Social Apps 2012 starts in San Francisco this Wednesday! Join the industry’s leading developers on February 8-9 for two days of panels, discussions, and networking around the social and mobile app ecosystem.

The closing moments of Super Bowl XLVI, which saw the New York Giants come from behind to edge the New England Patriots 21-17 with a last-minute touchdown, were so dramatic that they set a new tweets per second (TPS) record on Twitter. The final three minutes of the Super Bowl saw Twitter users firing off [...]

When newspapers started moving online, the technological gap between those who had grown up with computers and those who had not led to a lot of opportunities for younger professionals to jump in and bring the news into the 21st century. Now that it’s 2012, those same young people may be wondering what they were [...]

On today’s Morning Media Menu (MP3 link), Social Times joined Jason Boog, the editor of our sister blog, GalleyCat for a chat about some of our top stories in social media this week, from the Huffington Post’s new streaming network to themed playlists on Spotify.

This week, Yahoo! Commerce is hiring a social editor, while Make Up For Ever is looking for a director of e-commerce and online marketing. Dwell Studio is in need of a community manager, and Amalgamated Bank is seeking a social media manager. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional just-posted [...]

The privacy issues surrounding Google+ are making people long for simpler times when the Internet was more about finding than being found. But, as this infographic shows, things could be a lot worse.

At a press conference in New York Thursday afternoon AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group gave a preview of a new streaming network that will launch later this year. Founding editor Roy Sekoff, who will be leading the network, described the programming as a series of live and interactive clips covering everything from entertainment to politics.

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) has an illustrious past.  A great metaphor, considering EA’s own NBA series of games, is someone like Michael Jordan, who after taking some time off from being a champion with the Chicago Bulls, returned back to the game after an absence.  But the game had changed.  He played for the Washington Wizards, [...]

While the Giants take on the Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis this weekend, the Host Committee organized for the event will look after their fans from the watchful computer screens of the Indianapolis Social Media Command Center.