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Top Five Twitter Analytical Tools

by Ron Callari

What kind of footprint have you made in the Twitterverse? Do you know your Twitter ROI, your Twitter influence or stats that determine your Twitter psychographics? In the social media world, this data is becoming easier and easier to access as new analytical tools become available... and now you can track it.

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Facebook Revolution Ratchets Up

by Ron Callari

Not to take a back seat, Facebook is driving its social network headlong into the streets of Iran. As witnessed last week when it hastened to make 'real-time search' a major priority, Facebook, not to be overshadowed by Twitter wants to be perceived as a major player on the national scene. Evidence of how it looks to achieve that goal are surfacing in the US and the Middle East.

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Join the Resistance in the Terminator Salvation Multiplayer Game

by Austin Keenan

This is the most well-rounded browser-based action title I've played in some time. Fun, intuitive, and challenging enough to keep you hooked for quite some time, the game is sure to impress.

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Facebook Revolution vs. Twitter Revolution!

by Ron Callari

Like Bill Maher and Twitter, Facebook thinks it needs to move its big tent to a real-time format! Facebook will renovate its News Feed and Search capabilities to real-time format, just as soon as they finish beta testing. Not to be outdone by the Fail Whale, Facebook is launching new real-time search functionality that will allow members the opportunity to search for links, news updates, photos and videos of registered users, and get those results in real time.

Prius Neighborhoods Found at Twitter, Facebook & At The Pump!

by Ron Callari

The new Toyota Prius is about to land in a neighborhood near you!. Starting this week, Gas Station TV and Toyota Team up to Launch 'Prius Neighborhood,' the first-ever community-generated TV Program. The community relations program broadcasts consumer-generated local cause-related events at-the-pump screens while informing viewers about the new 2010 third-generation Prius. "Prius Neighborhood" submissions are available online.

Google Labs: Google Squared

by Austin Keenan

Google Labs, the experimental division of Google, has made public their developing project Google Squared. The concept of Google Squared is to take searching into related topics and offer multiple forms of links and related media.

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Iranians Revolt on Twitter, Facebook And YouTube

by Ron Callari

"Iran Elections," "Iranians," "Tehran" and "Mousavi" (also spelled "Moussavi") were the trending topics on Twitter for a whole day on Tuesday, June 16. When four out of ten trending topics are all about the same issue, you know the world is focused. This blog is testimony to how the social media tools of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube can help fight back censorship in the 21st Century.

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New & Old Communication Collide: Email Meets Snail Mail With Free Shipping From Quabb

by Beth Hodgson

We've seen businesses that combine traditional communication methods which contemporary ones based in technology, but we've never seen ones that provide their services totally for free. It's really not good to be true; keep on reading and find out why!

Social Networks Pin Winner At Cannes Film Festival

by Ron Callari

social networks pick best animated short at Cannes

Voodoo twittering? The Cannes 2009 Competition drew more than 193,000 views in 9 days in May. An innovative American filmmaker took home the top prize in the annual Online Short Film Competition run by the National Film Board of Canada in conjunction with the Cannes Film Festival. And YouTube and Twitter were largely responsible for selecting the winner!

A Microblogging Search Engine by Google?

by Ron Callari

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em! The Google Operating System blog, which is widely known as the town crier for Google's "unofficial news" reports that Google Inc. is preparing to launch a search platform that will index content from Twitter and other microblogging sites.

Navify Adds Multimedia to Wikipedia Entries

by Austin Keenan

It's always good to find a site that enhances the experience of using the phenomenally popular Wikipedia to create new and useful pages for researchers and casual searchers alike. That's what Navify is all about.

Top Five Giants Stealing Twitter's Golden Eggs

by Ron Callari

Fee Fie Foe Fum, I smell wampum in Twitterdom! Twitter is like the goose that laid the golden eggs, allowing the giants of industry to run off with all the spoils! Has Twitter sat in its Ivory Tower too long trying to figure out the "perfect" business model, while the corporate kingpins are in the counting house counting all their returns?

Increase Twitter Followers Using Niche Business Sticky Twits

by Beth Hodgson

Instead of giving out business cards with phone numbers and emails alone, a new trend is to connect with business associates using various social networking site contact information. Since Twitter seems to be the fastest growing trend for social networking communication, there's one business that's so confident of the popularity of Twitter, they only create materials to help people market their Twitter contacts.

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Vanity URL Gold Rush at Facebook

by Ron Callari

Well Twitter's done it. LinkedIn's done it. Why has it taken Facebook this long to allow its registered members to sign up for vanity URLs? Well that oversight will be rectified soon. Let the Gold Rush begin...

Bing Vs. Google: First Impressions

by Austin Keenan

Microsoft has spent considerable time and effort to get attention to its new search engine, the hopeful Google-killer Bing.com. Let's see how the two sites stack up against each other, after just one day of use.

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You Be the DJ with Electro-House Blender

by Austin Keenan

Did you ever go out to a club and listen to some thumpin' dance beats and think to yourself, "Hey, I could do this?" If you have a passion for electronic music, or even just a curiosity into how it's done, then this is the site for you.

Spark.ly, the Dungeons & Dragons of Social Networks?

by Ron Callari

Spark.ly describes itself as the "definitive social and economic ecosystem that empowers people around the world to communicate, engage in commerce and have fun in a culturally aware and profitable virtual environment." With a BETA launch date of June 16, 2009, nobody knows yet whether that description is an illusion, bravado, grand self-promotion or truly the next big shiny thing. To date there are no blogs written, no product announcements, and no press releases to alert the media. One would think with a June 9th launch date, Spark.ly should be 'sparking' a few conversations out there? Or is this part of their master marketing plan to create buzz about their emerging online kingdom?

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Avatar Pho.to: Make Animated Avatars with Ease

by Austin Keenan

Avatar Pho.to is a service that focus more on giving you animated avatars that other avatar editing sites. The genius with it is in it's extreme simplicity. The site offers you a host of animation options. Then you upload your picture, choose an effect, and you're done. The lack of options seems to work well for Avatar Pho.to because everything works just as it should.

Social Networking Brave New World of China

by Ron Callari

On June 4, 2009 during the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the government actually shut down access to Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Flickr. Then Hotmail blipped off the radar, followed by Bing, Microsoft's latest search engine. Repression was rampant as a Great Firewall went up to prevent Chinese webizens from mourning online in their respective virtual worlds. Is Big Brother alive and well in China?

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Turn Your Pictures Into Works of Art at PsykoPaint

by Austin Keenan

PsykoPaint just released their beta edition of online software that allows you to upload a picture and modify it to make it look like an actual painting. It's very simple to use and the results are great looking. It's a really cool way to give your images and distinct and different look that you're in control of all the way. It's time to get your artist pants back and make some masterpieces.