Web founder says Facebook a danger
The man credited with inventing the internet has lashed out at Facebook and other social networking sites saying they are moving the web away from its founding principles. In an essay in Scientific American magazine, Tim Berners-Lee says social networking sites are tightly controlling the information put on there by users meaning the internet’s being [...]
Auto Thank You Messages & Twitter
Searching the web recently keeping up with the goings on with social media, I came across an article by a self proclaimed social media guru on the subject of auto thank you messages on Twitter. These are messages that you can send out automatically to thank someone who decides to follow you. I’ve had them [...]
Facebook unveils new messaging system
Swatting down recent rumors that it’s launching an e-mail killer, Facebook today unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched what he calls a "modern messaging system" to handle the convergence of different kinds of messages and bring them together under one social [...]
Twitter Video Streams Watched for 2 Mins
The average online video stream discovered on the Twitter social network is viewed for two minutes and seven seconds , according to a new study from TubeMogul, Brightcove, and DynamicLogic. Twitter Beats Yahoo, Facebook Comparing the average viewing time of 103,731,006 random video streams discovered on several leading social networks and search engines, “Online Video [...]
Corporate Blogging Goes Mainstream
Becoming fully incorporated into media and marketing Blogging has been around for well over a decade—an eternity in internet time. Whereas blogs used to be a thorn in the side of traditional journalism, today they’re an essential ingredient in the media mix. Hardly a news organization exists that does not have a blog where its [...]
