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Adam Ostrow discusses how celebrities, brands, corporations use twitter as a "power". "Normal" people like you and I do not use as much as expected. Is twitter the new way to find celebrity gossip or product promotions ? Is this distracting social media websites that try to make an "online community?

I know we don't need to do this anymore, but I thought this was an interesting site for social media. It's simply a Q&A Web page, where someone creates a page and anyone can visit the page and ask the creator a question.

This article talks about investing in the web (i.e. investing in Twitter or Facebook). Borthwick, who works for Betaworks has invested in Twitter and has his company invested in 21 other social media networks.

Introducing Google Buzz, a new dimention of social media that is the missing link to Google's needs. Will this grow more competition with Facbook? Facebook turning into a search engine? You see it hear first!

This is an article that is discussing what is sure to become a hot new debate. If someone owns the right to the print version of a book, do they own the digital rights as well?

I'm sure by now most college students have heard of chat roulette. Before reading on, I will warn everyone that before you click on the link, there may be some offensive material. Anyways, chat roulette is a website that allows people with webcams to speak through microphones, or type in a chat bar, with anyone in the world that has also has a webcam. There has been recent coverage by the media concerning the innapropriate material that some users have been filming. However perverted some users may be, chat roulette is an interesting new way to communicate with people via the web. There are two things about this website that I think are interesting. The first is that the site is run by a 17 year old in a European country. The fact that at any given time, there are over 30,000 people connected to the site makes this a potential goldmine for advertisers. The second thing I find interesting is that while the site is meant for communication, almost nobody uses it to speak to other individuals. It is mostly used to satisfy the curiousity and voyeuristic tendencines that lie within most of us. The average user will just click through random people without speaking to anyone. This says something about the way the internet may be breaking down communication in some aspects, instead of uplifting it

the perks to using facebook as a postive form of advertising for business. facebook users have pinpointed that they are interested in 3 major things, whats new, whats cool, and what products to consume. Producers have promoted movies using facebook by creating groups, certian companys will created their own page like giant eagle and members can view the new advertisments for the week.

Pleaserobme.com is funny but is happening all over. People are stating where they are on social media websites and others can see if they are home or not. You can strategically map out who is home and who is not.

This paper describes an empirical study on postgraduate students in a local university to investigate whether instant messaging (IM) tools are used as enabler tools for learning in tertiary institutions. We first developed a theoretical model based on the Technological Acceptance Model (TAM). We then undertook a survey of 104 postgraduate students. The findings indicated that external factors such as technology utility, network externality, media influences, self-efficacy and affection have a significant effect on perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEOU). In our study, PEOU has significant influence on the students' acceptance of IM tools as enabler for learning, contrary to past research result of PU influencing acceptance intention. Overall, the findings suggested students' perceptions of IM tools are easy to use and useful in the context of learning. The paper concludes with a discussion on implication to education.

This discusses the fact that the "first sale" doctrine that applies to physical books, CDs, and DVDs does not apply to the e-books that people "buy" on the Kindle. Basically, it states that you cannot really allow someone to borrow your "books" on the Kindle and if you wanted to sell your "book" you would have to sell the "physical media where the 'original' download is stored."

Another documentary about copyright & remix culture when it comes to intellectual property.

yfrog lets you post pictures to all three social media sites at once, instead of having to go to each individually to post a picture. It's the first site that lets you do this.

You may have seen this PSA on television, Facebook, radio, or websites; Text HAITI to 90999. To date, this campaign has raised over $30 million. It's generated the largest donation from text message in history. Just anther way multimedia/technology is changing the world, right before our eyes!

A well known Canadian magazine had to undergo a name change due to the searches associated with the word "Beaver" online.

There was a 35% increase of viewers for this years Grammy Awards. "The Grammy Awards" was on of the hot topics of Twitter. It breings up an interesting question - can Twitter incease LIVE events ?

Open Source Cinema lets you create and / or remix your own videos or other videos that people have posted from places likes YouTube. You can also join group remix projects.

This website is basically the largest index of text/ chat abbreviations used on the web. It chronicles abbreviations from A-Z. "With the popularity and rise in real-time text-based communications, such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet and online gaming services, chat rooms, discussion boards and mobile phone text messaging (SMS), came the emergence of a new language tailored to the immediacy and compactness of these new communication media. If you have ever received an instant message or text message that seemed to be written in a foreign language, this Webopedia Quick Reference will help you decipher the text chat lingo by providing the definitions to more than 1,200 chat abbreviations."

Interesting study in Baltimore about how news starts and how it moves through various communications vehicles (e.g., daily paper, blogs, new media etc.)