Image via CrunchBase In my first post I talked about the history of social networking from 1985-2002 dominated by CompuServe, AOL & Yahoo! In the second post I explored the current era w... Read more
WHEN a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River in January, the first picture appeared on Twitter. In June, Twitter users were mourning Michael Jackson before major news outlets reported... Read more
Google has been stunningly adept at devising computer algorithms to help people search the Internet. But when it comes to building features for social networking, the company has been much l... Read more
Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr A new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers predicts that a new generation of malware (software written for malicious purp... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Life in the media and communications terrarium, it seems, is getting increasingly perilous. The predictions of demise are piling up. Phone calls, e-mail, blogs and Facebo... Read more
Image via Wikipedia LIFE, as they say, imitates art. And the way things work commercially today across much of the Web recalls that chapter in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” where Tom cajole... Read more
Image by djwaldow via Flickr Businesses both big and small are flocking to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Foursquare. The fact is that a presence on these plat... Read more
Image via Wikipedia CHANCES are your friends are more popular than you are. It is a basic feature of social networks that has been known about for some time. Consider both an avid cocktail p... Read more
Image by Tjeerd via Flickr Technology Review 2010 TR10 – technologies likely to change the world Media Release: Solar fuel. Joule Biotechnologies’ Noubar Afeyan has created genetically... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Online social networks could help with communications and recovery for people with disabilities following major natural disasters, or even terrorist attack, according to... Read more
Image via Wikipedia To try to understand—let alone guess—the future of video advertising, one needs to start by looking at the biggest trend in media over the past few decades. In November... Read more
The collapse of traditional channels of communication in Haiti has again highlighted the role of social media and the internet in disasters. Twitter is being used as a prime channel for comm... Read more