Seconds after one of Jai Manselle's NBA clients accidentally tweeted out classified information about negotiations to end last fall's lockout it was already too late to delete the 140-character message."It was immediately reblogged, screenshot, retweeted and disseminated heavily," said Manselle, a public relations specialist whose firm represents clients ranging from...
Most 21st century humanoids have probably either at one point tried online dating or dissed online dating. Or both. We have reached a new point in history, at which we either do not feel like we can meet people in real life, or we are too encumbered by technology, or...
If the Obama administration wanted a simpler way to protect consumer privacy, it didn't need to issue a dense report or pressure Congress to pass laws increasing government oversight of the private sector - especially during an election year.The White House simply needed to look in its own consumer protection...
And you thought First Lady Michelle Obama was hip for jumping on Twitter.Wannabe First Lady Ann Romney, as far as we can tell, is the only 2012 Presidential candidate's wife on Pinterest, the rapidly growing social network. But while Ann Romney is busy pinning family photos, "candid" campaign shots, books...
The morning after French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced he will run for a second term, several parodic Twitter accounts have mysteriously been suspended.@_nicolassarkozy , an account created in September 2010 and clearly labeled as a satirical Sarkozy impersonation, was suspended on Feburary 16th. Powerful People & Targeted Botnets: the End...
"We're always looking to get as close to one touch donations as we can," Romney Campaign's Digital Director Zac Moffat told the LATimes. Politico reports that both the Romney and Obama campaigns have started using Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's "magical" dongle, Square. Of course, you can't pay by saying your...
The President of the United States held a Google+ Hangout today. He fielded questions selected from over 130,000 submissions as well as from five lucky Americans selected to hang out with him live. For the rest of us, it was a streaming video experience. It began with a swooping, dramatic...
Last month the White House struck upon a particularly effective idea: using the #40dollars hash tag on Twitter, they asked voters what $40 meant to them. That, the Obama administration said, was the amount of money that would have disappeared from an average middle class paycheck if Republicans allowed a...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case this term that could have clarified the authority schools have over students and their use of social media when they're not in school.On Tuesday, the court said it would not hear appeals on the suspension of a West Virginia student who...
No matter how many times I tell Facebook I want it to display the most recent updates from my friends first, it keeps reverting to highlighted stories. You can (attempt to) influence Facebook's sorting by manually tagging stories, but if Facebook really wants to separate the wheat from the chaff...
Facebook has cut a deal with political website Politico that allows the independent site machine-access to Facebook users' messages, both public and private, when a Republican Presidential candidate is mentioned by name. The data is being collected and analyzed for sentiment by Facebook's data team, then delivered to Politico to...
Comments on blogs, what are they good for? Sometimes it's hard to remember, but you know there's a lot of potential in taking the democratization of publishing to the next level and letting people comment on your blog-written comments on the world.This evening a fresh spate of debate has rolled...
You may have never heard of Brandon Campeaux, but more than 265,000 folks have "circled" the photographer on Google+. As of this morning, Campeaux packed his virtual bags and left Google+ claiming that the company has done nothing about death threats leveled against him on Google+.According to Campeaux's last post,...
A Swedish charity is claiming a first after setting up a paywall on Twitter in which people pay to read Tweets from some of the country's celebrities.Author Susanna Alakoski, pop singer Niklas Strömstedt, music journalist Fredrik Strage, director and actor Felix Tobias Herngren and television host Gry Forssell are among...
Technology is frequently examined as though it were the reason for its own being, a kind of byte-driven tautology or spectacularly dry religious sect. But technology is a means to address questions. In that spirit, here are the top 10 stories about how we've employed the social web to ask...
An app called Path launched its version 2 do-over yesterday. "The smart journal that helps you share life with the ones you love," it calls itself now. I ignored this app until today. All I saw from version 1 was emoji spam in my Twitter stream. Let's take it as...
Las Zetas kill another "blogger." A body was hung from the same overpass where two bloggers were murdered last month. According to the Houston Chronicle, a sign hung with his body said, in Spanish, "This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn't report on the social networks." Representatives...
Hinds Hall, Syracuse University campus, 5:31 am ET November 11 - There comes a time with every long, drawn-out project where you begin bargaining with yourself. The best way for me to think about how to finish this next stage, you find yourself saying, is if I were something closer...
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has a crack group of analysts tracking the Internet, including tweets and Facebook messages, that takes the pulse of the world. Located in McLean, Virginia analysts at the CIA Open Source Center are known as the "vengeful librarians" according to a report from the Associated...
From gerrymandering of electoral districts to new debates over requiring voters to present government ID at polling stations, whether and how more or less people participate in elections has always been an intensely political matter. Beginning today, technology giant Google will place a new focus on analyzing and providing tools...
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