New York Times:
Employing social networking as the theme for an art show, a curator found that some some artists actually used the new medium, while others were just commenting on it.
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The Guardian:
A Jackie Collins-style romp that claims to expose the secrets of the Harvard students who made billions from social networking is set to become a major movie. Paul Harris reports from New YorkFounding a successful website is normally a story that would interest only a handful of computer obsessives. It would certainly not b (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We were very excited earlier this year when RWW made its way onto the latest edition of the Web Trend Map. For those of you unfamiliar with this map, it "plots the Internet's leading names and domains onto the Tokyo Metro map. Domains and personalities are carefully selected through dialogue with map enthusiasts, and every (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Time for this week's events guide, a regular feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, as good a time as any to review your conference plans.Know of an event taking place that should appear here? Let us know in the comments below or contact us.Sponsor21 July 2009: Palo Alto, California, and 23 July 2009: Lo (Read More)
Mashable!:
He used social media and the web unlike any other presidential candidate in history. Barack Obama’s incredible online presence turned into a grassroots movement culminating in his election as the 44th President of the United States. He was all over YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere.But that was the campaign. (Read More)
New York Times:
Many churches are trying to embrace Facebook, MySpace and other social media networks, but it has been an uneasy alliance thus far.
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ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week, we analyze the latest changes to Facebook's privacy controls, investigate trolling on FriendFeed, explore the impact of push notifications on the iPhone, review Firefox 3.5, check out Google's update to Blog Search, and more. We al (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Peachtree Media Advisors has just released their latest report on digital media mergers and acquisitions. We posted their 2008 report back in January, and this is a mid-year 2009 update to that. According to Peachtree, there were 342 digital media transactions in the first half of 2009, which was 12.3% below the number of (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Foursquare just released a new version of its mobile application for sharing your location with friends, including a new feature that should make the app a much bigger presence in users’ lives. Taking advantage of new abilities in the iPhone’s operating system, Foursquare 1.3 includes push notification, delivering a message (Read More)
Engadget:
We haven't heard a solitary peep out of IXI Mobile in a hot minute, even though its Ogo line -- once a member of Cingular's lineup -- had found some niche popularity among teens and the deaf community. We'd even thought they'd gone into R&D hibernation, actually, but apparently not -- they're innovating. They're innovating (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Bonnie Smalley, known as @comcastbonnie to Comcast customers who tweet for help, replies to hundreds of messages daily across several social networks. How does she get it done? Smalley, Mashable founder Pete Cashmore, and other high-volume networkers gave me their social network efficiency tips for the New York Times. As a (Read More)
Ars Technica:
In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean. And if you were someone who joined MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, or a number of other sites years ago, you may have mo (Read More)