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Social Media Under Electronic Gag Order By The Good Wife & President Clinton

The Good Wife, President Clinton & Loose Tweets!

The power of a blogger's mobile input, the import of a Facebook status update and the ability of a tweet to report in real-time have been called 'off limits' by a judge and an ex-president this week. As perhaps, a sign of the times, there soon may be barriers as to where and when you can engage in user-generated content. In two separate cases this week, precedents might have been set as to just how social Internet users can be in public places.

Social Media Video Chat Advances With Web Site Widgets & Enhanced Security

by Ron Callari

Chatroulette, while adding to the growing interest in video chat technology has been unable to divest itself from some of human nature's baser instincts. However, it has inspired others to build out the video conferencing platform to develop business models that are now appealing to a much broader audience for business, special interests and branding purposes.

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Bizarre Real Piglet Bank Saves Change, Costs A Mint, Annoys PETA

by Steve Levenstein

The Piglet Bank: Sick joke or slick marketing scheme? This cheeky product from, er, TheCheeky.com gives a new and unusual spin to your old change jar.

Social Media Outraged By Amazon's Objectionable Titles

by Ron Callari

How does a book with the heinous title, "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure" make Amazon's Top 100 list for Kindle? How does Amazon accept pre-orders for the hardcover version of "I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons," or sell "RapeLay," a video game in which the protagonist stalks and rapes women?

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Bugs Are Bugged By Super Slippery Nanotech Surface

by Steve Levenstein

Want to bug some bugs? Place them on an experimental nanotech coated surface that removes nearly all the friction generated by the bugs' bristled feet, then watch hilarity ensue as the critters are literally stopped in their tracks.

Social Media Leaps The "Great Firewall" Of China With Kindle In Black Market

by Ron Callari

Amazon is once again in the news with its recent acquisition of Diaper.com for a cool $540 million. But the real story, somewhat overlooked in the States is the emergence of a black market (aka China's gray market) that's smuggling Kindle 3G's into the country for a specific purpose. Apparently, it's been discovered that Kindle is the only handheld device to date that can leap the "Great Firewall" of state Web censorship.

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Social Media Data Wars Will Determine Semantic Web Leader

Facebook vs Google vs China to Dominate Web of the Future!

by Ron Callari

Social Media or Web 2.0 can be considered the battleground for Web 3.0's Semantic Web. The shift has been happening subtly but is picking up speed as Internet companies and nations vie for control of data. With 600 million users now on Facebook, Google's 1.3 billion visitors per week and China's 1.35 billion citizens, these three entities have the greatest opportunity to dominate the Web of the Future.

Social Media Inception Advertising Could Be Coming To A Social Network Near You

by Ron Callari

For anyone who has seen Christopher Nolan's mind-bending movie "Inception," the science of planting images and ideas into a subject's brain is not pure fiction. A research team at Northwestern University are actually working on a study designed to make people remember things that never happened. As a result, there is speculation that implanted memories into one's existing photos could alter one's reality of the past and subsequent brand loyalty.

Rubik's Cube Bank Saves Your Coins, Leaves You Puzzled

by Steve Levenstein

Rubik's Cube, the 3D plastic puzzle revered by geeks & gamers the world over, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year - and you forgot to buy it a gift. Not to worry, the Rubik's Cube Bank allows you to save up for a really nice present... that is, IF you can get your money out of it!

TUBA Framework Blows The Horn On Hackers

Get help with TUBA's keyboard dynamic framework.

by Doug Bonderud

Banging away at that keyboard might not be such a bad thing, according to scientists at Virginia Tech. In fact, how you type may be just the thing that keeps a hacker bot from stealing your information.

Social Media Strategy Targeting China, Japan, India & Brazil

Social Media Strategy Targeting China, Japan, India And Brazil

by Ron Callari

In June, 2010, when the Internet World Stats report published the "Top 20 Countries With Highest Number of Internet Users," it was not a surprise that China, the US, Japan, India and Brazil would take the top spots. According to the data, the highest percentage of Internet users are China with 21.4%, the USA with 12.2%, Japan with 5.0%, India with 4.1% and Brazil with 3.9%.

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Doughnut To-Go Keeps Sweet Snacks Safe & Secure

by Steve Levenstein

Doughnut To-Go is a custom carrying case designed to hold a single doughnut in protective custody. It can even be locked, keeping your sweet snack safe from kids, co-workers and Homer Simpson. DOH!

Avoid Getting Ripped Off By Get Rich Quick Schemes

by Spencer Lanoue

Virtually any online get rich quick scheme that sounds too good to be true probably is. Some people are so eager to make quick money that they don't put in the due diligence to ensure a company is legit, and they end up getting scammed and losing their money.

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Honda Japan Rolls Out Low-Tech Way To Reduce Auto Accidents

by Steve Levenstein

Japan's Honda Motor Co. is using testing a new and unusual passive safety technology intended to help drivers judge side distances on narrow roads: a pair of small black triangles on the windshield.

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Inflatable Bike Helmet May Be The Best-Looking Helmet Yet

by Chris Weiss

A new bicycle helmet design puts a helmet on your head only when you need it.

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The Stemie Protects Your Nuts While Cycling

by Chris Weiss

There are a lot of ways you can hurt your balls on a bike. Why not make it one less.

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Social Media Privacy Leaks Creates More Detractors Than Promoters For Facebook

by Ron Callari

In Fred Reichheld's Book, "The Ultimate Question," the author has spent the last ten years researching one simple question that can determine a company's future. The question is "how likely is it that you would recommend Company X to a friend or colleague?" Over the last six years, Facebook would not have scaled to half a billion users if the answer to that question was not a resounding "yes."

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Is WikiLeaks' Brand Of Social Media Journalism Losing Credibility?

by Ron Callari

When stories broke back in June that WikiLeaks was releasing sensitive military documents pertaining to the War in Afghanistan (see "Social Media Journalism By Wikileaks' Whistleblower Unfolds In Real-Time"), the world was aghast that a social media site that patterns itself after Wikipedia could have gained such access at such peril. Founder Julian Assange actually had to seek protection from the authorities and Iceland initiated a proposal for their country...

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BANG... You're Not Dead! Buoyant Bazooka Wins James Dyson 2010 Design Award

by Myra Per-Lee

There were 15 finalists in the previous round of the 2010 James Dyson international design contest and now there is but one: Samuel Adeloju for his invention of the LONGREACH Buoyancy Deployment System. Though the system looks like a sawed-off bazooka and the supposed emergency person operating it is depicted as warrior from Second Life, LONGREACH's highly explosive warhead is actually a rescue device.

Social Media Worm That "Likes" Facebook

by Ron Callari

Worms on Facebook are becoming almost as ubiquitous as the site itself. With so many Facebook pages on the network today, and with everyone trying to get their pages additional "LIKES," it's wise in general to stay away from any page with "Shocking" in its title - let alone, if its followed by "This girl killed herself after her Dad posted this photo."

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