ReadWriteWeb
Let's be honest here: we're all a bunch of social media addicts. We're junkies. Whether it's a new Twitter app, a new Facebook feature, or a new social anything service, we're all over it. But we may not be the norm. The truth is, being involved in social media takes time, something that most people don't have a lot of. So (Read More)
: This is definately a consideration when trying to budget your time online. With websites to manage, forums to moderate and blogs to write, social sites like Twitter and Friendfeed can steal time from more productive activities.
Submitted by Musicmixingguru:
AllHipHop.com: Cocaine Cowboys 2 just dropped. Can you give the readers who haven’t seen the movie some background information on you? Let’s start when you were coming up in the drug game in the west coast. (Read More)
VentureBeat
In yet another powerful showcase of Twitter’s potential power as a disseminator of information, today several people received the first information via the service that NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has confirmed that there is in fact water on Mars. It’s still not on CNN.com, not on MSNBC.com, not Fox.com. Bu (Read More)
: i just used it with some comparison to google and cuil side by side and if you search for something popular like a city. It feels like looking at a Encyclopedia. instead of looking at a bunch of search results you get a feel of looking at a magazine.
Submitted by Infodiva:
Twitter is one of those services I just can’t make up my mind about. On one hand it provides a simple and quick way to get information about what’s going out there whether it be updates from friends or news from my favorite sites. On the other hand, it can get annoying when people use it for the simplest mundane types of th (Read More)
Submitted by Ramskill:
Smashing Magazine has just completed a survey of the layouts of the top 50 blogs in the world (as listed in Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs) .Why should you care what these bloggers are doing?Simply because the top bloggers live and breathe online content publishing. They measure everything they do and tweak their sites to conti (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Tests on Twitter, wiki-style study groups, students quizzed on yesterday's most popular YouTube videos and the biggest hits on Del.icio.us/Popular - is this what the future of education is going to look like? In some journalism schools around the US, it just might be. Would that really be so bad?Inside Higher Ed has an ar (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs:
Everyone knows about social media sites like Digg and Reddit, but the fact is, they are incredibly hard to penetrate, and the traffic they offer is often superficial. For many bloggers, niche sites are a refreshing alternative to these behemoths, offering more targeted links and a much smaller base of competition. Read on t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changerhref3D"http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_apple_will_dominate_next_gen_computing.php">.Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform iPhonebecomesthe new personal computer. The d (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
HOUSTON -- There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.“We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said.Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren’t talk (Read More)
louisgray.com
As the world of online "friends" is getting increasingly blurred, and many of us are joining social network after social network, expanding our realm of friends to mean much more than just those we know in real life, artificial rules of etiquette are being created for when you follow someone or add them as a friend, and whe (Read More)
: Unfortunately the benchmarks for 'rules' are all real life based.. Agree that each community will make its own rules as they go along, and break them too :)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
socialmedian users can now instantly TWEET any story on socialmedian on Twitter. Just click on "Share" then "Tweet". (Read More)
Submitted by Amitai Givertz:
Social Media is everywhere these days. In the past 6 months, I must have signed up to dozens of social media sites, used them once or twice and then abondoned then to the box of neglected toys. The onslaught started slowly. We made friendster/MySpace/Facebook profiles, some of us started personal blogs, we got digg, del.ici (Read More)
: I would venture to say that what is noise to one may in fact be signal to another: personally, I get tired of slogging through all the tech feeds to find the 5% that are useful for work and perhaps 5% that interest me personally. But then again, that's what I've got Yahoo pipes for: to help me filter the noise before it ever gets to me. Don't see why one couldn't go the same route to filter, say, an unwanted Twitter follower.
: @nigelwalsh @isthisstupid Merge them and filter them when you do! I like the notion of a signal to noise ratio, and I also remember not to pigeon hole. Some fool might be mostly noisy (mostly cloudy?), but as the good Bard has helped us to know: often the fool says the most profound thing.
It's possible that the one signal from a noisy "friend" might surpass the many signals from a guru.
Submitted by Martina Stewart:
(CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton has agreed to speak on the second night of next month's Democratic convention, headlining on the 88th anniversary of the day women earned the right to vote, sources say.
Two sources close to Clinton said the former presidential candidate will speak August 26 with all female U.S. (Read More)