Social Media is a term that has been used way too much, yet way too few actually know what it means. Social Media is not a metaphor for Twitter, or even Facebook, it is a term that works best as a simile for community, as in ’social media is like one big stadium of [...]

Google introduced Sidewiki a short time ago as a tool for anyone to leave useful information about a website for others to stumble upon later. It’s an incredibly democratizing system because anyone can use it to post virtually anything on any site. That capability alone makes Sidewiki an irreplaceably valuable tool; however that’s [...]

Ben Stiller recently produced a viral video campaign based around Stillerstrong, a charitable farce on Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong campaign. Stiller’s aim has been to convince his viewers to support a desperately impoverished school in Haiti. Several celebrities, and even former American President Bill Clinton have sounded off for Stillerstrong. The site’s current [...]

MySpace recently released some APIs that will stream status updates and the like to other formats like Google’s search engine. This means that Google’s search function could potentially include up-to-the-second MySpace information as part of a search. MySpace could be considered a goldmine of information that has not been properly tapped as of [...]

The social media world has changed again.  Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg made a blog entry on December 1st which included a few statements regarding the future of regional networks on the site.   Why is this important?  There are over 350 million users registered with Facebook.  As a frame of reference, the 2009 census [...]