Personal E-Health Records: A Cautionary Tale
It’s damage control time at Google Health. The digital ”personal health record” took a big PR hit earlier this month when a 59-year-old kidney cancer survivor from Massachusetts tried to move his...
View ArticleStartup promises pay for social networking
Social media fans spend a lot of their own time and effort writing, posting photos and creating video. New York University student Daniel Redlich believes they deserve to get paid for all that work. So...
View ArticleThe “future” of news will be social, ultra local
The newspaper industry may be struggling, but The Huffington Post and MSNBC are both taking steps to reshape the future of news. The Huffington Post on Monday launched a new feature called HuffPost...
View ArticleBritish court uses Twitter to serve electronic injunction
In what appears to be a legal first, the High Court in London this week used Twitter to serve an injunction in a case involving conservative blogger Donal Blaney. The court ordered an anonymous Twitter...
View ArticleThe power of moms online
There have been ample examples of how mommybloggers are a powerful, influential group. Now comes data to back it up. A study commissioned by Child’s Play Communications from The NPD Group Inc. found...
View ArticlePosterous goes after groups
Anyone who wants to share text and photos with friends these days has no shortage of options. From old standbys like Facebook and Flickr to newcomers like Instagram and Path, rare is the smartphone app...
View ArticlePosterous pivots to Spaces
San Francisco start-up Posterous announced an overhaul to its blogging service today, introducing new features designed to make it easier to control who sees your post. Posterous Spaces, as the new...
View ArticleU.S. spent 53 billion minutes on Facebook in May
Here’s a mind-numbing stat – Americans spent a total of 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook in May 2011, according to a new Nielsen study released today. In fact, Americans spent more time on Facebook...
View ArticleRace, meritocracy and Silicon Valley
Did you catch last night’s CNN documentary on race and Silicon Valley? Soledad O’Brien’s piece on black entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley set off a social media firestorm after CNN previewed it to a...
View ArticleWomen trust blogs more so than Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest
2012 social media final, v2 View more presentations from BlogHer When it comes to influencing women and enticing them to purchase something, blogs still rule. So says a survey by BlogHer, a network of...
View ArticleTwitter buys language bridge to television
Twitter has bought BlueFin Labs, a software company that analyzes conversations on the Internet about television programming so brands and networks can make intelligent strategy decisions, in an effort...
View ArticleCussing, drinking, sexting, typos on social media may cost you chance for...
Are you on Facebook talking about guns, drinking alcohol or doing drugs? Do you tweet obscenities or show a lack of spelling skills on Google+? Do you post sexually charged photos of yourself on...
View ArticleSocial media’s immune system isn’t always immediate
On Monday it came to light that Pax Dickinson, the then-chief technology officer of the Business Insider, a content partner of SFGate and The Chronicle, had opinions many would find, let’s say,...
View ArticleGoogle wants to clean up Blogger’s act, bans sexually explicit content
Do you have a Blogger blog with content some would consider sexually explicit, or shows graphic nudity? If so, its days are numbered. In a major policy change, Google – which owns Blogger – says it...
View ArticleFemale presence at Apple’s WWDC keynote falls short
Despite Apple CEO Tim Cook’s promise of increased female presence during the company’s kick off of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, it took nearly 40 minutes into the keynote for...
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