Social Media Newsmakers – May 26, 2009

The following are some social media newsmakers I came across today: Digg Joins the Twitter and Facebook Party Digg jumped on the bandwagon and added the ability for visitors to easily share stories on Digg.com with Twitter and Facebook; a sign that even the...

Big Brother’s Internet

Whether it is for spreading propaganda to a nation’s populous – or suppressing it – governments have always sought to control new forms of media. From the printing press to the radio and the television, there has been the presence of political powers....

So Long Yahoo Mash

Including features that are commonly found on other networks like Facebook and MySpace, Yahoo Mash was Yahoo’s beta attempt at the Social Networking scene. I have to ask the question “where have I been?” It was not long ago that I reported on the demise of...

Today’s Social Media Linkforth

Virtual gifts may be nice but Facebook is putting actual goodies behind the way to spread cheer on their social platform in the UK. A UK company is behind the application to allow easy purchasing and sharing of Mars related products on Facebook. Once being sent a real...

Today’s Social Media Linkforth

Things I found interesting while on the web today….. Jeff Quipp’s article on passive and aggressive approaches to attaining friend’s within social media. Andrew Goodman shows us the makeup of a good web site in relation to how the Google’s...