The turn from television to online streaming is creating a social scene that resembles a giant living room with a hundred-thousand people watching the same movie. From You Tube to Vimeo to Hulu, to Netflix. Social Media covers a broad spectrum of viewing platforms, and the impact of community is the same no matter [...]

With the release of Google Buzz, Google has been catching a lot of attention lately for making a big social media play. But let’s not forget that Google has been in the social media game for some time, developing social tools and acquiring social media companies left and right. (See Google Already Social) Google’s first [...]

If you are a Twitter fan, you might have noticed something different about the Olympics this year. According to the International Olympic Committee, athletes will be allowed to tweet to their hearts content throughout the games. That is, as long as they are talking only about their individual/personal experience at the Olympics. [...]

There was one thing missing from the Super Bowl football advertisements this year, one brand decided not to air a single commercial throughout the game (at least not for their most popular soft drink). If you didn’t notice, Pepsi chose not to use the big bucks it normally spends on hawking up another 30 [...]

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 [...]