Jul 12, 2009

Copyblogger I’ve noticed a strange trend lately.For some reason, people seem to be equating social media with social networking.At the same time, they seem to be treating blogging as something other than social media. I find this very strange indeed.For example, here the author proclaims that he’s quitting social media and gives his re (Read More)

Jul 14, 2009

CNET News.com Masking Gateway for Enterprises, or Magen, is designed to catch and mask confidential information before it reaches users' screens. (Read More)

Jul 14, 2009

FactoryCity I suppose every now and then you run up against some kind of technological experience and think, “Wow, that’s amazing.” This doesn’t happen to me all that often. I’m so enmeshed in technology and the web that by the time some technology is deployed deep enough in the wild that I randomly encounter it, it’s already passé — o (Read More)

Jul 14, 2009

Mashable! If you’re the owner of a BlackBerry or an iPhone, you probably know that there’s a special bond that links these people together. Whether it’s BlackBerry thumb or iPhone apps, there are so many shared experiences on which to form a connection. Enough so, apparently, to justify a BlackBerry-specific social network: MyBlack (Read More)

Jul 13, 2009

readwriteweb When Adobe AIR was first released, we were in love. These glorious rich internet applications let us interact with web services outside our browser. In many ways, AIR apps were revolutionary. More complex than simple desktop widgets, these programs delivered the web to us in beautiful little packages. Almost immediately, we (Read More)

Jul 07, 2009

TechCrunch I’ve been a long time Delicious user for bookmarks, going back to way before the acquisition of the company by Yahoo in late 2005 (one of our early scoops). But over the years I’ve used it less and less. It’s slow, sometimes offline. A couple of weeks ago it wouldn’t let me log in, saying my password was incorrect. I was su (Read More)

Jul 02, 2009

FriendFeed Blog One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that's happening on the site in real-time. Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top of your screen in real-time. No need to constantly (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

Scobleizer Sorry for being gone so long. It’s clear I have spent too much time on social networks. Been hanging out on FriendFeed and Twitter and not blogging. I’m not the only one, Steve Rubel, famous PR blogger, said he’s giving up his blog for lifestreaming.Jeremiah Owyang, the other night, told me I was losing myself. Or my though (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

louisgray-com Last week, Edelman's Steve Rubel made an aggressive jump - away from traditional blogging, turning over his site to a lifestream, which captures all of his activity from around the Web. His move, he reported, was due to a feeling that blogging "feels old" and that the new reality is about the flow of information. This follo (Read More)

Jun 29, 2009

Submitted by Servantofchaos from blog: While Web 2.0 and social media tools provide great opportunities for businesses from a branding and marketing point of view, there are also a raft of other opportunities which are easily overlooked. The very same benefits that can be achieved... (Read More)

Jun 28, 2009

TechCrunch People have always been inclined to join mobs - most people have at least one story to tell about a time that they got swept up in or had to face a crowd demanding justice for one thing or another (both of my experiences were in college). The Internet has proven to be a frighteningly efficient tool to create virtual mobs. B (Read More)

Jun 28, 2009

Pak Alert - FriendFeed Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:50:56 GMTAhead of Germany’s upcoming general elections, officials warn against premature announcements of alleged poll results by Twitter subscribers.Before the state media are allowed to broadcast exit polls, baseless postings regarding poll results could fuel ill-founded theorizations about the outcome (Read More)

Jun 27, 2009

mashable Twitter has become an integral part of our social media lives, marketing strategies, and business objectives. We have multiple accounts, hundreds of followers to watch, Twitter trends to track, hashtags to follow, and a frequent need for continuously updating search results.As such, getting by on the limited feature set ava (Read More)

Jun 26, 2009

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Top Bloggers Spend Less Time BloggingI’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

guardian.co.uk Society One in 10 deaths in Europe are caused by alcohol, according to research published today, and one in 25 around the world.Doctors writing in the Lancet say that drinkers mostly die from injuries, cancer, heart disease and liver cirrhosis. Alcohol can also cause a significant amount of disability.Claims that red wine can be go (Read More)

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