ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
Mashable!:
Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the be (Read More)
VentureBeat:
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.One of our newest speakers is Randy Breen, chief operating officer at Social Gaming Network, where he oversees game development, business development, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game. Developers can then claim those game communities as official fan sites.To date, 40 developers have launched official communities a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com announced today that it’s going to join the hordes of companies offering a social networking for your business. With a new product called Salesforce Chatter, companies get their own secure, private social network where they can collaborate and communicate in real-time.It’s a crowded market, with existing prod (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Social Networking continues to be the killer app for mobile and Twitter is no exception. Loved by both handset makers and mobile networks alike the microblogging service is seen a potential driver in selling more expensive handsets and those potentially lucrative data plans. It’s therefore not all that surprising to learn t (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, a (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on (Read More)
VentureBeat:
IBM is entering the burgeoning mobile commerce market today with the latest version of Websphere Commerce, its technology for creating online stores. Version 7’s big addition (at least according to IBM’s press material) is the ability to create a version of your web store that’s tailored for smartphones like the iPhone and (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Back in the day, it was assumed that heavy Internet geeks were a bunch of basement-dwelling, trenchcoat-wearing, socially maladjusted introverts.However, a new study from the Pew Internet Project shows that geeks, including IM users and bloggers, are more likely to help neighbors, get out of the house, volunteer, and behave (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that manages Wikipedia, is passing the hat around in its annual fundraising campaign. The foundation blasted through its $6 million goal last year (and eventually raised $6.9 million), so it’s settings its sights higher this time, with a target of $7.5 million.Wikimedia’s (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At yesterday's Blackberry Developer Conference, several companies announced major updates to their applications and services designed for Blackberry smartphones. From Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) came new geolocation, advertising and push services in addition to other developer tools. Meanwhile, companies like (Read More)
mashable:
One of the emerging trends in social media is geolocation. It makes a lot of sense because connecting with people and activities going on around you is a great way to enhance and actively use the real-time nature of social networking. With GPS becoming practically a standard feature on smartphones and the popularity of Four (Read More)