There is a lot of hardware out there beyond our computers that helps us plug into social media as well. Let's takes a look at the top 10 options in the social hardware category.
The NBA has banned all social media during games, including Twitter and Facebook. This contrasts the leagues' relationship with 'traditional media,' which has mostly been favorable and inclusive.
Plenty of businesses and nonprofit organizations have signed up for Twitter and Facebook, but are they using these social media outlets to their fullest potential?
Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press.
'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'
As Twitter matures, the people who use it must follow or get left behind.
How Twitter made the transition from novelty to an inseparable part of current social media.
Ask any news Web site manager about their site's current design (and state of continual redesign) and the desire to "simplify" is likely high on the wish list. Also near the top: making better use of social networking tools.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.
Nielsen releases the new figure which shows that Australians spent 1.6 million hours on social media sites in June this year.
In the U.S.A, MySpace lost half of its maket share while its share has beed doubled in Australia
Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.