January 7th, 2011
Six middle school girls were arrested Wednesday afternoon after the group allegedly participated in a Facebook event called “Attack a Teacher Day.” (more)
November 2nd, 2010
It might not be getting a lot of late-night attention by the major TV or online news organizations, but the mayhem surrounding the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory is burning up Twitter, Facebook, Twitpic and Flickr. It even has a mayor on Foursquare. (more)
October 7th, 2010
Sometimes friendships are destined to go south. With 500 million people on Facebook, relationships are increasingly conducted online, but what are the main reasons people “unfriend” their Facebook pals? A University of Colorado Denver business student examined that issue recently with a new study about what drove users to throw their friendships in the online trash. (more)
October 6th, 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday the social network will unveil several new features, including an application for users to download their personal information held on the site and a dashboard feature that allows users broader control over all of their applications. (more)
October 4th, 2010
Positioning itself for a strong box-office run so long as audiences keep on pressing the ‘like’ button, Facebook drama “The Social Network” opened to $23 million at the box office this weekend. (more)
May 28th, 2010
In the ’90s, way back in the 20th century, guys like Ralph Reed brought the Republican Party into the cutting edge of the age of technology. It seems so long ago, before the technology bubble burst, before the housing and credit markets burst and the private sector was larger than the public sector. It seems so long ago, but it was only a few years. (more)
April 2nd, 2010
D.C. Council member Jack Evans this week joined the ranks of other Twitter notables, from Bieber to Shaq, who have logged onto the social networking site only to find an impersonator attracting followers in their good name. (more)
March 24th, 2010
A Frenchman who police say hacked Twitter accounts belonging to US President Barack Obama and celebrities could face jail. (more)
March 16th, 2010
The FBI and other federal agencies are going undercover on Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks with phony profiles to gather information and communicate with suspects, according to an internal Justice Department document. (more)
March 2nd, 2010
In 1984, singer-songwriter Tina Turner asked “What’s Love Got to Do with It” in her breakthrough solo album. This year, political observers find themselves asking the same thing about the massive infiltration of social media into political campaigns—“What’s Social Campaigning Got to Do with It?” As we see it, the answer is pretty simple for candidates running for the U.S. Senate: the difference between winning and losing. (more)
February 10th, 2010
Millions of Gmail users opened their inboxes today to find a new — and mysterious — feature waiting for them: Google Buzz. (more)
February 9th, 2010
Google Inc. took its most direct shot yet at social networking sites Facebook Inc. and Twitter on Tuesday, unveiling a tool that tightly integrates the best features of the popular services into the company’s e-mail, maps and mobile products. (more)
February 1st, 2010
Kenengba conducted a Chinese Twitter user survey on Jan 27 2010. Apart from mapping out the background of Chinese twitterers, the blogger wants to find out why Chinese netizens take all the trouble to get around the Great Fire Wall for getting access to Twitter. He received around 1,000 responses and posted the finding in his blog. (more)
