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The United States Department of Homeland Security has grasped the advantages of social media broadcasting and have plans to begin utilizing various social media platforms to announce threats of national concern starting April 27.
In the past, the Department of Homeland Security used a color-coded graph to issue terror warning affecting the United States. Now, they plan to implement a… Read more
LinkedIn launches its social news product for professionals LinkedIn Today. The main objective of this product is to make professionals know top stories from their network and industry.
The Linkedin Today webpage has different categories to meet the professional interests of Linkedin users. P
rofessionals from different industry can get the latest trending topics and news. The professional social news… Read more
A new study of social networking shows that women who upload a ton of self-snapped photos of themselves are having trouble with self-esteem issues and are using the social sites to garner attention for themselves.
In fact, many have been shown to use social sites like Facebook to directly compete for that attention.
The researchers checked out the amount of… Read more
In light of the recent antics of superstar Charlie Sheen, the process of advertising through social media has been put even more in the spotlight. More and more celebrity endorsements are coming to the forefront of social media news as regular people are learning truly how much celebs are making by making a simple post on Twitter about a product… Read more
Electronic Arts, better known as EA, is going to release soon its 14th social game in Facebook: Dragon Age Legends.
Since 2009, a talented team of coders and designers have been working in the development of this social game in Facebook. The team is lead by Ethan Levy, producer of Dragon Age Legends, who made the initial announcement of this… Read more
Have You Noticed Changes to Facebook’s News Feed Recently?
Have you noticed lately in Facebook that you are only receiving comments or updates from the same people? In the News Feed, you now only see posts from people that you interact with on a regular basis.
If you haven’t made a comment, looked at a person’s profile often or… Read more
So, it was recently announced that music website Last.FM is aligning their business model with that of DRM music streaming service Spotify by charging users £3 a month to stream music from their mobile devices. When I first heard this news I have to admit I was pretty peeved – and to some degree I still am!
Just before Christmas,… Read more
Mashable introduces its own social layer called “Mashable Follow”. The new social layer is its beta stage. Hope this new social layer will help mashable readers to scale down the whole website into a section that only provides the kind of information they’re most interested in. Social curation is the one area that is being focused by mashable.
The follow… Read more
The rumor is true.
In my earlier post, LinkedIn Gives Away Advertising Credits, I discussed about the rumor that LinkedIn might be trying to create its cash coffers through this offer because of a possible initial public offering (IPO) early on 2011. On January 27th, LinkedIn filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which sets in… Read more
Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize as much as being the nadir of every government across the globe.
Snorre Valen, a member of the Norwegian parliament nominated the creator of Wikileaks for the prize because he felt it was “One of the most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency” in the world. He went on to say “By disclosing… Read more
