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Remembering 9/11 Through Social Media
Today marks the eight-year anniversary of the shocking 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon building in Washington, DC, and the crash of United Airlines flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks directly led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, including hundreds of police officers and firefighters who responded to the disaster, and was profoundly felt all...
5 Ways Banks Are Using Social Media
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY. He is @obilon on Twitter. Many banks have started using social websites to help them with everything from healing the financial industry to promoting their latest credit cards. By embracing the most popular tools available, the industry has also been embracing the best of what social media culture has to offer, and...
20 Ways to Change the World in Only 15 Minutes a Day
We know, we know: you really want to get more involved in changing the world, but you just can’t ever seem to find the time. The kids need chauffeuring, the house needs cleaning, and the refrigerator is astonishingly empty again already. And don’t we know there’s a recession going on, for Pete’s sake?!
Yes, all of the above may be true. But it doesn’t mean you can’t...
Twitter Apps Still Recovering From DDoS Attacks
It was the big social media story of the week; on Thursday, Twitter went down due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. And while Twitter was the most visible target, Facebook, Google, and others were also under fire due to a geopolitical attack against one man. It’s been three days since the attacks. Everything’s back to normal, right? No, not exactly. While Twitter, YouTube, Livejournal,...
Study: Facebook Increases Jealousy in Relationships
We already know that Facebook can be an incredible tool for building and strengthening friendships and relationships. We also know that it can be a relationship buster. And now, a recent study makes the claim that “increased Facebook use significantly predicts Facebook-related jealousy” in romantic relationships. The study, published in the CyberPsychology & Behavior Journal, analyzed the effect of Facebook use on the romantic relationships of college students. The...
Twitter’s Tough Week: The Social Media Recap
It’s been an unusual week in social media, most notable because many of us had to learn to live without it. A DDoS attack targeting Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and many other sites knocked the leading micro-messaging service offline and caused numerous problems with the leading social network, too. In other news, we looked into the age demographics of Twitter users, a mindblowing combination of Twitter and...
iPhone TV: Top iPhone Apps for Live Streaming Television
Earlier this year, Apple submitted a spec to the IETF for live streaming multimedia content over HTTP, leading some to suspect that a live video protocol would soon be making its way to iPhone and iPod devices. With the new 3.0 version of the iPhone OS, that HTTP live streaming protocol became a reality, and while there were already a handful of live video apps on...
HOW TO: Submit Your Rental Listing to 60+ Sites at Once
Name: RentShout Quick Pitch: RentShout advertises rental listings on directories and sites around the web, delivering widespread online visibility right where renters are searching. Genius Idea: If you need to sublet, rent, or sell a home, apartment, or office, you want to do it fast. Every day that place isn’t filled, the more potential income you lose. Just ten years ago, you’d post a listing to your newspaper...
Clicking "Search" in Facebook Makes It Go Bing
Combining search functionality with social networking is all the rage, and Facebook's been testing stuff for a while...but it's just given its system a new sound effect: When you use Facebook search now, you'll get a Bing. That'll be Microsoft's Bing, in fact.
You know, the search engine that succeeded crappy MS Live Search, that's actually good for once, and which could even challenge Google a bit? It's now been moved from...
Need a Cheap Location Tracker? Try a $99 iPhone
Location tracking is only recently reaching the affordability level of the average Joe, but it's still not ideal. So when Chris Molnar's girlfriend wanted to track her stuff during a recent house move, he came up with a plan: A $99 iPhone.
Instead of a GPS-based uplinking dedicated tracker with a costly monthly fee, Chris opted for a cheap iPhone 3G from Best Buy. As a new AT&T user he was eligible for the...