The Woman that Helped Facebook Find Its Groove

If there’s one woman in particular who’s making her impact felt around Silicon Valley, it’s Sheryl Sandberg. Although there seems to be some unremarked upon gender conflict around her, no one is doubting that she is, in fact, the number two honcho at Facebook, the world’s biggest social network. Moreover, she’s widely pinned as the

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The Woman that Helped Facebook Find Its Groove

User Pictures and Names Come Off of LinkedIn’s Social Ads

It’s the last stretch of August and everybody’s out of the office — except yours truly, clearly — trying to cease all the promise of summer in the last few days of vacation. Given the twenty-something diurnal number all the calendars are proclaiming, it seems only to be expected that despite its immaculate primness and

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User Pictures and Names Come Off of LinkedIn’s Social Ads

Just in Time for the First Week of School, “The Big Lebowski” for Rent on Facebook

This post was at first going to be dedicated to the news that “Retweet” and “LOL” had just been added to the revered Oxford English Dictionary. However, even bigger news has surfaced in the social media fray: “The Big Lebowski” can now be rented directly from its Facebook page. That’s really no LOLing matter; the

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Just in Time for the First Week of School, “The Big Lebowski” for Rent on Facebook

Facebook Builds Momentum Among Recruiters

The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Light has just published a piece about a growing trend in job recruitment circles: trolling Facebook for job candidates. The use of social networks in the employment arena is nothing new, but the noticeable uptick in the use of Facebook for recruitment purposes is. Facebook has traditionally been viewed as

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Ashton Kutcher Thinks Social Media is “Like a Manifestation of God”

Ashton Kutcher, who, these days, is very much unironically being called a “social-media influencer,” has been gearing up for his return to television since joining the cast of “Two and a Half Men” late last spring. Some finer points about his new role have begun to emerge and media commentators are already remarking on the

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Ashton Kutcher Thinks Social Media is “Like a Manifestation of God”

U.C. Berkeley Social App Lab Releases CitySandbox, Hopes to Network Real-World Deeds

These days, Greg Niemeyer, one of the honchos of the U.C. Berkeley Social App Lab, can be caught tinkering with a pet project: CitySandbox. What exactly is that two-word mash-up? It’s Niemeyer’s grab at getting to a finer integration of online and offline sociability, but by his own admission he still has much ground to

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Flickr, Twitter, and London Riots

On Flickr, it is now possible to find CCTV cam surveillance images of the London riots that have been taking place since Saturday night. London police uploaded the images themselves in an attempt at gaining assistance from the public in identifying the rioters. On August 5th, Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old with alleged gang affiliations was

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Asian-Americans Make Their Powerful Presence Known on YouTube

It’s more than likely that Asian characters are not super abundant on your living room’s TV screen. Well, that’s only if your TV still doesn’t connect to the internet. The New York Times is reporting that a new generation of Asian Americans is finding its voice on YouTube. Among the most popular channels on the

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