Hashtags, Twitter and Following on Friday

If you’ve been on Twitter for any length of time you probably noticed people using the hashtag in their posts. This nearly forgotten symbol is given great power on Twitter to mark posts as searchable. For exampe, this past tuesday for the Inaguration people were marking Twitter posts with #inaug09.
Why do this? Well, there’s a [...]

President Obama Has asked for Help – And How You Can

Yesterday our 44th president, Barack Obama, was sworn in and America waited to see what he would say. The economy, the war, energy and a myriad of other concerns have plagued us in 2008 and, in 2009, Americans and the rest of the world have questioned how Obama will rise to face those demands.
Like many [...]

The Green Ball 2009 WebCast Tonight!

From Washington D.C., Monday, January 19th at 10:15pm Eastern, the Sold-Out Green Inaugural Ball 2009 will be webcast to the world in HD.
The broadcast will be seen on sites across the web including here, http://www.greenballblog.com and http://www.greenball2009.org
The event showcases the movers and shakers in the green movement and political arenas. Chaired by Al Gore the [...]

Burger King Asks Facebook Users to Pick (Sacrifice) their Friends

WWYDFAW? Confused already? Let me break it down for you: What would you do for a Whopper? I imagine you’ve already thought of something but now add in the incentive of a free Burger King Whopper and the possibilities could go on for days. It’s good to know then that the popular fast food chain [...]

QUICK! To the INTERWEBS!

In probably the most bizaare use of Social Media in 2009, Republican National Committee Chair Mike Duncan has really amused most people in the social word with this quote:
We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today.
Well, yes Mr. Chairman, you do. But I [...]

The Social Media CES?

It seems like a long time ago when the blogger first came en masse to CES.  Before 2006, it was a trickle of largely editorial bloggers, mostly parts of traditional media empires of refugees from them.  Then came the Blogger Lounge and BlogHaus and suddenly being a blogger was hipper than [...]

Is the Economy Going to Desimate Social Networks?

Today, LiveJournal, laid off 20 of it’s 28 employees. According to Valleywag:
The company’s Moscow-based management has told employees it blames the “global economic downturn” — the kind of pat excuse every boss is giving for layoffs, even when mismanagement or a bad business plan is really to blame. The brutal, abrupt cuts suggest something different: [...]

Twitter Experiencing Phishing Scams

According the Twitter Blog several phishing DM scams have gone through today. According to the Twitter Blog:
It looks as though this particular scam sent out emails resembling those you might receive from Twitter if you get email notifications of your Direct Messages. The email said, “hey! check out this funny blog about you…” and then [...]