Today the blogosphere is all a’tizzy about Facebook’s move to claim all rights, past and present, to user-uploaded content.  And perhaps the reaction is justified; didn’t we already deal with Facebook on the privacy front just a short while ago with the whole invasive advertising debacle?   If you haven’t heard, Facebook updated its terms-of-service [...]

A recent article on CNN.com, written by journalist Leslie Sanchez, suggested that Obama’s success in garnering an impressive following of young voters demonstrated that for the GOP to succeed, the party will need to match Team Obama’s savvy use of social media in future elections.  Though John McCain’s team certainly didn’t match the efforts of [...]

Here’s a little secret from me to you regarding mobile social media and networking: if it is too frustrating or time consuming for people to access social content from handheld devices, they will simply stop trying. I’m a Blackberry user.  You might even say that I am a Crackberry addict.  I won’t say it, because [...]

There are days when I wake up to the same blase stream of information filling my feed reader, and then there are days when I am genuinely excited about what’s flowing through the web of tubes known as the internet.  Yesterday was one of the latter category.   You see, along with the many various [...]

Though I’ve said almost incessantly that social media will, in the very near future, start migrating as a whole to mobile devices, it is always nice to see a little evidence to back that theory up.  iSuppli, an analyst group focused on interpreting trends in electronics, claims that the massive adoption of smartphones and internet-friendly [...]

Often times, we think that being socially connected means fingers on a full keyboard, seated at a chair, staring into a display.  That assumes, of course, we’re talking about socially connected in the internet sense.  The fact of the matter is that being socially connected doesn’t mean you’re locked into a chair at home.  You [...]