Aug 15, 2009

Submitted by Jayberkowitz from blog: ..it's a fundamental shift in the way we communicate. So true. I think this video explains a lot about how much Social Media has made an impact in today's society. This video, created by Erik Qualman features some interesting statistics about social media. I can relate with the following statistic (in about 6 months, th (Read More)

Aug 13, 2009

louisgray-com For many people using Twitter, the act of retweeting is a major part of how they help share information. Popular Web sites, such as Tweetmeme, have developed to show the most popular tweeted items each day, frequently highlighting the largest Twitter accounts. And while the act of retweeting hadn't always had official bless (Read More)

May 28, 2009

TechCrunch Talk of how to monetize Twitter, both from its founders perspective and a third-party point of view, is dominating conversation on the web these days. Tweetbucks, a startup founded by entrepreneur Chris Sukornyk, is hoping to make money for users of Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed through leveraging affiliate fees and CPC (Read More)

May 16, 2009

louisgray.com This Is How My Social Media Data Flows. I'll Explain.If you're anything like me, you are constantly creating social data. From your blog posts and your tweets, your photos and videos, bookmarks and status updates, you are creating new information, big and small. You might do so in spurts, or you might be creating new conten (Read More)

Apr 25, 2009

Mashable! There are few things in this world that cannot be easily replaced, repaired, or regained. Our health and the health of the ones we love falls into this category. The best thing we can do to protect our health, above medication or rest, is prevention.This week, news broke of a new and fatal swine flu on the Mexico-U.S. bor (Read More)

Apr 17, 2009

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Apr 17, 2009

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Apr 15, 2009

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Apr 16, 2009

Submitted by Jasongoldberg: April 16 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, who today reported first-quarter profit that beat analysts’ expectations, said his firm could repay U.S. government rescue funds “tomorrow.”Dimon, calling money received through the Troubled Asset Relief Program “a scarlet letter” and “the TAR (Read More)

Apr 16, 2009

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Apr 04, 2009

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Apr 04, 2009

TechCrunch Actor Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men, Usual Suspects, etc.) met Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis at a poker game and learned all about Twitter - a few weeks later and he has over 160,000 followers (although he says “I just don’t know what that means”). Calacanis also talked him into hosting a video show as well, which is two weeks ol (Read More)

Apr 02, 2009

Louis Gray - FriendFeed For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a means for promoting new content through RSS client applications, widgets, iPhone apps, purpose specific apps, and so on… yo (Read More)

Apr 01, 2009

TechCrunch Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Mrinal Desai, who was an early employee of LinkedIn before he co-founded CrossLoop, a startup funded by El Dorado and Venrock. You can follow him on Twitter.I try and test many social services and since 2003, there are only three that represent me—LinkedIn, Facebook and (Read More)

Apr 02, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Digg, the popular social news site, just launched its long awaited DiggBar, a new toolbar that will appear on any page Digg links to. From within the toolbar, users can digg stories and share them with their friends on Twitter and Facebook. Digg will now also feature shortened URLs, and, maybe even more interestingly, Digg (Read More)

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