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    Presidential Campaign Issues: Real Life Vs. Social Media

    The economy, taxes, education, health care, immigration, foreign policy, China, Iran, the military. These are the big campaign issues for Tuesday's presidential election. But what about the world of social media? Do people care about different things? Yes.Turns out the simple act of using social networks impacts people's views and involvement in...

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    3 Ways Social Media Is Reshaping the Political Landscape

    The recent political conventions underscored a few disconcerting trends. Our political leadership is not only out of touch with reality but also tends to distort the truth. How can social-media-based innovations address these challenges?Given that social media excel at connecting people with society’s leaders, there is no question social entrepreneurs...

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    Weekly Wrap-Up: Many Millennials Don’t Have More Than Basic Computer Skills and More

    Despite a strong grasp of social media, many millennials lack real computer skills. Richard contrasts three types of social media users. Klint explains how to find out which programming language is the most popular. Learn about these stories and many more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-Up. After the jump you'll...

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    On Its Release Date, “New” Social Media Book Is Already Outdated

    The subtitle of Friends, Followers and the Future ($15.95, City Lights Publishers), a book coming out today by Emmy-winning journalist Rory O’Connor, has a dark ring to it. “How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media” conjures up images of everything changing, and not necessarily for the...

  • Mobile
    The Future of Social is Video: Interview With Socialcam CEO Michael Seibel

    Socialcam is being called the "Instagram for Video" app. With this phrase comes the idea that, like seemingly every startup nowadays, the goal is to build an awesome and thriving community, pump up the product to the level of ultimate coolness and then cash in by selling to a bigger...

  • Web
    Harnessing Web Fury: #SOPA, #KONY2012 and #StephenColbert

    Barack Obama is on Instagram. He's on Foursquare and Facebook, too. He's even on Google+. On Election Day, he suggested that his pioneering Web presence wouldn't end with the campaign, but would continue into governance. The new administration would foster innovative engagement, and Obama would become our first wired president....

  • Social
    How (and Why) Musicians Are Using Twitter

    When Twitter first launched in 2006, there was no handbook published about who should use it and how. As the service's user base grew, best practices were established organically and conventions like retweeting and hash tags were created by the community. Today, the platform is used for a wide range...

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    Why Politics and Social Networks Shouldn’t Mix

    You have a friend on Facebook who posts non-stop about all things politics. This friend is either a die-hard progressive, a staunch Republican or a total schizophrenic mixed bag who only posts outrageous political commentary to piss off other users. With the Republican primaries in full swing, you may see...

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    Punk in Africa: 3 Chords, 3 Countries, 1 Revolution… and a Facebook Page

    When Keith Jones and Deon Maas first started trying to pull together the footage, sources and sound for their documentary, Punk in Africa, they found it slow going. It was only when they started leveraging a dedicated Facebook page and other social media tools did they start to make headway....

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    Hoo-ah: How the US Army Has Become a Social Media Leader

    Over the past several years, the US Army has developed an exemplary program in exploiting numerous social media methods, and done so without a lot of flash, expense, or personnel. They have an engaged audience, numerous followers, and maintained a multi-pronged campaign into all of the major social media networks,...

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    Web Pros: Candidates Are Running Neck-And-Neck In Mediocre Web Design

    Politics is partisan and objective, but Web design is often much more subjective: you know good Web design when you see it.Unless, of course, you're a presidential candidate and his campaign staff. We asked expert Web designers to evaluate the major presidential candidates' campaign Web sites. The candidates got okay,...

  • Social
    How Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Became One of the Most Powerful Women in the World

    Mark Zuckerberg is on his way to becoming one of the richest people in the world, but when it comes to influence in the worlds of politics and business, he sits in the shadow of his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg.Sandberg, 43, is credited for the success of Facebook's advertising...

  • Web
    Daily Wrap: appMobi Releases jQ.Mobi and More

    appMobi released a new HTML5 framework, jQ.Mobi, to the open source community today. This and more in today's Daily Wrap.Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap...

  • Social
    If Social Media Doesn’t Change Voter Behavior, Will Joining Instagram Help Obama Win?

    Amidst all the Iowa noise from last night and today's announcement about the end of Michele Bachmann's presidential bid, something else happened: President Obama quietly joined social photo sharing app Instagram. Obama joined with the username @barackobama and has since posted two photos. The first one is of him speaking...

  • Social
    If Social Media Doesn’t Change Voter Behavior, Will Joining Instagram Help Obama Win?

    Amidst all the Iowa noise from last night and today's announcement about the end of Michele Bachmann's presidential bid, something else happened: President Obama quietly joined social photo sharing app Instagram. Obama joined with the username @barackobama and has since posted two photos. The first one is of him speaking...

  • Web
    Washington Post Launches App To Track “Social Media Success” In Presidential Primaries

    The Washington Post launched a new app Tuesday aimed at tracking mentions of presidential candidates on Twitter.@MentionMachine was developed exclusively for the newspaper and was launched in conjunction with Tuesday's Iowa Caucus, the official start of primary season for the 2012 Presidential Election. The app uses Twitter's streaming API while...

  • Web
    Iowa Tested Social Media’s Ability To Make Political Predictions

    Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won last night's Iowa Caucus by eight votes, and the consensus on what role Twitter and social media played in the contest may be just as evenly split.Jenn Deering Davis of TweetReach, a social media analytics service by San Francisco-based Appozite that tracks Twitter mentions...

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    Top 10 Enterprise Cloud Apps and Services of 2011

    It seems like just like summer, Bill Murray used to sing, and that's because it was. This year, for the first time, ReadWriteWeb expanded its coverage of the technologies that change our world through the Web, with new emphasis on cloud-based services to consumers and cloud technologies for businesses. Cloud...

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    GoDaddy’s SOPA Support Sparks Calls for Boycotts and Domain Transfers

    The list of companies that support the controversial piece of U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is fairly predictable. It includes huge media conglomerates, music industry groups, pharmaceutical companies and the like. One name that stands out, however, is that of domain name registrar GoDaddy. Whereas many...

  • Web
    Will Social Media Dictate A Tight Republican Race?

    In 2008, President Barack Obama developed a unique strategy in order to connect with potential voters and raise much needed funds for a costly general election campaign. Instead of concentrating his efforts solely on wealthy donors, Obama decided to use the power of the social web to create a broad...

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