TechSheep:
Eric von Coelln / Inside Social Games:Beyond Bookmark Me! Become a Fan of This App! Is the Latest Way Games Get Facebook Users — The push by marketers to be “bookmarked” has been going on since the Favorites tab first sh (Read More)
The Center for Social Media:
Magnum Photographer Christopher Anderson spoke to a packed audience of students and industry professionals as part of The Center for Social Media’s Camera as Catalyst Series. Anderson’s list of awards and recognition includes (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar:
Afterposting some thoughtsa month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, ThePresentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader whourged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, FrameAnalysis (Harper (Read More)
VentureBeat:
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8 (Read More)
New York Times:
The social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals’ updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
Zynga, the most predominant Facebook social games maker, might be worth $1 billion, analysts tell Bloomberg.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Zynga AdsZynga: We're B (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
China's online game market is reported to hit 41 billion yuan ($6 billion USD) in 2010.That will be half of the world's gaming industry market, says Beijing-based Cnzz.com, Inc., almost doubling from 2008 revenue of 20.8 bill (Read More)
Huffington Post:
People are getting fed up with the broken promises made by bureaucrats who say one thing and do another. They consistently use our children and their "future" as props to advance their agendas on a variety of issues but are e (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional social network on their own business apps (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That's compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a fa (Read More)
Submitted by tsudohnimh
from blog:
As I experiment with favorite tweets to create a “best of twitter” shortlist I found there was no good way to (re)tweet these starred tweets. Favstar.fm and Twitter widgets are great ways to share favorites but there isn’t a (Read More)
MSNBC:
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroThe news of Rep. Patrick Kennedy's Communion flap with Rhode Island's hard-line bishop is yet another chapter in the long history of the divide between Kennedy social justice Catholics and more ha (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entro (Read More)
mashable:
Anti-virus maker AVG is warning of a new worm spreading on Facebook via user’s walls. According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive phot (Read More)
Submitted by stewbagz
from blog:
To Often In Life It Seems We Forget That The People We Interact With Have Their Own Lives. First If They'Re On Twitter Check Out Ctwittl
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Submitted by Avi
from Google Reader:
If you are a pundit, or get paid to watch trends, then this message doesn't apply to you. It's your job to go out and find the next shiny object that could influence how we live and do business.But if you're in the trenches o (Read More)
Submitted by emmeffe2
from Google Reader:
There's a reason that all social groups should fall apart, which can be illustrated by the following scenario. You are a cattle farmer, sharing open pasture with 100 other farmers, and are trying to decide whether to add ano (Read More)
NewTeeVee:
The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has a piece on that comedy stalwart, Saturday Night Live, that almost reads like a surrender treaty. The article basically says that while there are some chuckles, the show just is a b (Read More)