A new legal precedent was set yesterday with the decision by a U.S. District Court Judge that the government can, in fact, collect information about you through your internet use without a warrant.
The ruling by Judge Liam …
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Entrepreneur Amit Gupta Still Needs Your Help in Fight Against Leukemia
When Amit Gupta, founder of photo community site Photojojo, was diagnosed with acute leukemia, he did what any good tech entrepreneur would do: he turned to social media.
Gupta needs bone marrow, but, unfortunately, South Asians are underrepresented in the bone marrow pool. Most people have an 80% chance of finding a donor; if you’re …
Why Aren’t Women Tweeting About Occupy Wall Street?
Twitter is still the social media outlet of choice for Occupy Wall Street, but new analysis into the #OWS tweets has found a surprising gender imbalance in those who’re talking about the protests: Fewer women seem to be doing so, despite Twitter being a female-dominated service overall.
According to analysis by Attention released …
25 Facebook Profiles You Should Subscribe to Right Now
Facebook’s new subscribe feature has been live for a few weeks. Take a look as we honor our favorites from Facebook, from the savvy digitalists to the up-and-coming social scamps.
Chime.in Social Network Lets You Earn Cash For Posts
If you’ve ever found yourself frustrated at the thought that you can’t share in the results of Twitter or Facebook’s efforts to monetize social media, fear not: There’s an app for that. The only catch? You’ll have to join yet another social network.
UberMedia, the company behind apps Echofon and Twidroyd, has created new social …
Twitter Owns #OccupyWallStreet Chatter
Even as concerns continue to be raised about the lack of media coverage of Occupy Wall Street, one thing is becoming clear: Twitter is handily picking up that slack.
Information from data analysis company “Attention” shows that despite reports that activists themselves are moving away from the service, Twitter dominates the OWS social …
Dalai Lama Joins South African Nobel Laureate in Google+ Hangout
These days, social media is circumventing politicians and bureaucracies in ways they could have never have imagined. Thanks to the Internet, the Dalai Lama joined Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Archbishop’s 80th birthday – via Google+. No visa, plane tickets or government intervention required.
The …
Twitter Mourns Steve Jobs
It’s been almost 24 hours since the first news of Steve Jobs’ death first rocked the Internet, and still Twitter users are pouring out lamentations 140 characters at a time.
By 12 a.m. ET Thursday morning, there had been 1.4 million tweets mentioning Jobs and 11,000 news articles written, according to All Things D.
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Are Companies Being Anti-Social with Twitter and Facebook?
The problem with most corporate social media strategies, according to one expert, is that they’re just not social enough, they’re actually anti-social, and that that will lead to “social blindness” and a downturn in overall brand loyalty if left unchecked.
Brian Solis, a new media analyst from Altimeter, believes that corporate social …
Move Over, Twitter: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Activists Feel the ‘Vibe’
It’s the classic good news/bad news situation for Twitter. The good news: It’s looking less likely that the company is going to face accusations that its platform is being used by activists such as the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters to organize, and therefore face legal action as a result. The bad news: It’s because activists seem to be …
Study: Women Better at Using Social Media to Keep in Touch
If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, then it seems as if Venusians are much better at using social media to stay in touch with those who are closest to them. A recent study has revealed that more women than men use social media like Facebook and Twitter to update friends and family about their lives.
According to the survey, …
The Fed Wants to Know What You’re Tweeting
If you’ve been badmouthing the Federal Reserve on Twitter and thinking no one cares, be warned: That’s not going to be the case much longer. The Fed is already planning to ensure that it knows exactly what you’re saying about it on all forms of social media.
Responses are due today to a Request for Proposal issued by the Federal …
