Marissa Mayer, Google's VP Search Products & User Experience, took fairly direct questions in the most recent edition of Digg Dialogg, the interviews series from social news site Digg. Topics include the upcoming launch of Google Wave, how Google fee...
Apple's rejection of applications from the iPhone App Store is at times baffling, and at others, potentially anti-competitive. Dow Jones reports tonight that the FCC is looking into one such ban - the recent rejection of the Google Voice app from the...
Marvin Turrell Grant, the cousin of MC Hammer who makes frequent appearances on A&E's "Hammertime" TV show, was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of raping a woman he met through Twitter. A 40-year old woman claims that the star, known on the show as...
YouTube may be testing changes to its navigation design, according to reader Eric Calouro. While visiting the site's homepage today, he grabbed a screenshot of a previously unseen design that puts a large search box at the top of the page, removes th...
Soren Gordhamer is the author of Wisdom 2.0: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected (HarperOne, 2009). His homepage is: www.sorengordhamer.com. You can follow him on Twitter. There is growing body of people who actively use more th...
Well, that clears up some of the confusion: AT&T sent us an extremely brief statement today in response to yesterday's reports that the FCC is investigating Apple's app store rejections policy. The short of it: AT&T is claiming no direct involvement ...
It's a little-known fact that adding a timestamp to the end of a YouTube URL jumps you to that point in the video. But did you know this is one of many hidden URL tricks available on the video sharing site? According to comedy video site College Humo...
The RIAA has been awarded $675,000 in the case of Joel Tenenbaum, a student who illegally downloaded 30 songs. If the award stands, Tenenbaum will be filing for bankruptcy. Since Tenenbaum had already admitted to infringement, the jury's instructions...
Sarah Palin is divorcing husband Todd, according to a single source: the Alaska Report blog. The somewhat sketchy story spread quickly on Twitter, but other news sites did not pick it up. Now the Palin camp has moved to debunk the rumor, choosing an ...
Can't wait another month for the rumored Apple tablet? Perhaps we can interest you in the MacBook cake, an intricate, 100% edible rendering of a MacBook Pro created by New York's BCakeNY. The astoundingly detailed cake includes a wireless mouse, suga...
It's no secret that MySpace, once the undisputed leader in the social networking realm, has been losing users at an alarming rate. Hitwise recently reported that the site is sliding in the music and entertainment category, while one proposed comeback...
At their peak, the World of Blood series had a dominant presence on Facebook. The series consisted of four primary time-consuming online RPGs: Blood Lust, Skies of Blood, City of Blood, and Elven Blood. Combined, they have hundreds of thousands of ac...
Are Facebook, MySpace, and cell phones creating a suicide-prone generation of children? Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, strongly believes so. He also points the finger at SMS and football players (soc...
We've known that the Associated Press has some odd policies in regards to social media and the web for a while. The AP social media policy says that employees need to control not only what they said on Facebook, but what their friends said as well. W...
YouTube recently redesigned channel pages to make them more dynamic and easier to customize. The beta channels are now a hodgepodge of your uploads, favorites, playlists, and numerous in-channel editing options. Should you upgrade to the new design, ...
Over the last few days, Venezuela has been closing down radio and media stations that are denouncing the government and its actions. This is not going down quietly, though, as protesters are fighting back against what critics consider the infringemen...
More than 7 years after the launch of the Apple Switch ads, Microsoft once again finds itself the target of an ad campaign that attempts to chip away at its dominant market share. This week Google is launching the "Going Google" campaign, reports CNe...
The Society for Geek Advancement and the Summer of Social Good charity fund are proud to announce Global Geek Week, including a week-long YouTube video competition. Submit your geek inspired video to the Global Geek Week YouTube Group for the chance ...
Last month, ABC shows like Lost and Grey’s Anatomy started appearing on Hulu, thanks to Disney’s deal earlier this year to take a stake in the online video site. Now, ABC shows are heading to Netflix, where they’ll be available to subscribers via liv...
Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter. Celebrities like Martha Stewart and Bill Gates might find Facebook high maintenance, but the world's largest social networking si...
At E3, both Microsoft and Nintendo announced plans to utilize Facebook Connect on their console gaming platforms. Starting later today, the first such integration goes live, as Nintendo DSi owners will get the ability to upload photos from their devi...
New service Social Cord has devised a way to charge your Twitter followers to access premium content: just sign up on the site, authenticate your Twitter account and promote your subscription service to your followers. Whenever you want to send out s...
How happy are you right now? A new iPhone-based research project aims to find out...and in doing so, help find out what makes you and others happy. Track Your Happiness, a program started by Harvard University doctoral candidate Matt Killingsworth, i...
We heard rumblings that IZEA's Sponsored Tweets was about to debut back in June. Today, IZEA's platform launched, and it is what we all expected: a pay per tweet service. Sponsored Tweets, now live, is like a seasoned Twitter advertising platform, ta...
We already knew that Microsoft's Bing got off to a good start by gaining about 3% market share in June, according to comScore. Now, analytics and research firm StatCounter has released their July numbers for search, and they're telling the same story...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down today from Apple's Board of Directors, a role that many said created conflicts of interest as Apple and Google rival each other in multiple market sectors. In particular, Google Android is a direct competitor to A...
Lots of big brands are embracing social media, but which platform is most popular? At least as far as Fortune 100 companies go, Twitter easily takes the top spot, according to a recent study from PR firm Burson-Marsteller. According to their findings...
This week we continue our #Hyatt4Good Tweetup Tour in Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles. Following this week, we'll be in DC and then Boston. Please RSVP if you plan on attending. Each event is free or 100% donation to our Summer of Social Good charity...
Yesterday, we brought to light that the Associated Press had begun charging for the republishing of its articles, starting at $2.50 per word. The news was heavily shared and came to as a shock to many, if the 80+ comments in our last article is any i...
Zappos, the online apparel retailer, is lauded for its unprecedented level of customer service and social media engagement. Its unique brand of customer relations, its extensive Twitter outreach, and initiatives like Zappos TV are big parts of why Am...
