I attended Boston Media Makers this morning on behalf of Uptown Uncorked. It was a fantastic meeting, with lots of great discussion about filtering the noise, delivering content, reaching an audience, getting the attention of Generations X and Y, social media job hunting tactics, using Seesmic as an alternative to Twitter, and more. There were [...]

Trick out your Outlook Mail to be social? How amazing is that? It is a great use of social media tools in combination with Outlook Mail, standard in most offices, and Twitter user @paisano figured it out for us. Go read @paisano’s detailed post on making Outlook your social desktop organizer – you won’t be [...]

I was asked why Twitter matters today, and this was how I answered: I am a confessed Twitterholic and social media maven, but I also truly believe Twitter matters for everyone. In addition to creating space for a global conversation between individuals, it adds value to online interactions for business by making them more accessible [...]

Grooveshark is a new monetized music sharing application currently in private beta. Grooveshark has a simple business idea: everyone in music getting paid. Their lofty goal is to change the music industry, and after having used their site for a few days to try it out, I think they might just succeed. Much of their [...]

Are you a bookworm? Does your budget for dead trees and new ideas exceed your means? Do you have a jones for reading that rivals the national debt in expense? BookMooch is here to help. Other services offer related services. Most notable of these is BookCrossing, combing a love of books, a need for books [...]

When I heard around the Internet that Amway was using one of their corporations to break into the online music business, I thought it was a joke. In fact, it seems it is true. Amway is planning on “breaking into the online music business”. Amway is knocking on the door of online music through a [...]

Did you think there were so many social music networks popping up that there couldn’t possibly be anymore? Think again. Tunesquare has popped up to offer indie music flavor for the social music network scene. With a hip look similar to that of Trig and MOG (dark background and rounded, edgy graphic edges, among other [...]

Part of what makes the Internet fun is the ability to band together with other people who share your interests in large scale group events. Since the advent of Web 2.0, that has become even easier. You may have heard of the seemingly crazy NaNoWriMo, where people sign on to write a novel in the [...]

There have been many times when I wished the Billboard music charts reflected my taste in music more closely. That time may be now. Billboard and iLike have decided to collaborate on a social music chart. The potential for tracking what kind of music is really popular, as opposed to what kind is just overplayed, [...]

In the social music site scene, Pure Volume stands out. It stands out for being nondescript, that is. With a white and grey on grey look, a logo that looks hidden and a plain vanilla interface, Pure Volume’s biggest trait is how vanilla it seems when compared to sites like Trig, Mog, Last.FM and iLike. [...]