This article talks about the ways companies use what we post on our social media. For example, if we blog about something it can be added to their database. Companies are using this information to find out what and who they should be advertising to.

This is an online community where gays and lesbians can interact without the pressures of our society.

This article talks about how Tufts University now accepts YouTube videos as part of their application process. Potential students still need to write an essay but they can also submit a video to show admissions who they really are.

This article talks about the various ways people are staying connected via the web--including social networking sites, skype, blogging, etc. It talks about how it's not only "hopping on the web" but staying connected "virtually face-to-face."

Although this article is from 2002, it's interesting and important. It talks about how the web has helped deaf people be able to communicate and relate to others easier and more effectively (i.e. with the telephone).

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.

Gives you 7 ways on how you can promote an event using social media by using twitter, facebook, flickr, and blogging.

Google is becoming more like twitter and facebook, along with email, the search engine, and mobile apps. Google makes staying connected with the world easier by incorporating everything we use into one account.

This article talks about why it is essential for business people to be linked in the web community. Staying connected through the web isn't only for young people anymore--everyone is doing it.

This article talks about how our generation stays connected primarily through the web and social media sites, but that we aren't really building much of a community.

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.

This is a conference in San Francisco, CA for Twitter. To get a ticket for it will set you back $469, but you get to hear from the creators of Twitter.

"Researchers now say there's no evidence infected PDFs were used in the targeted attacks originating from China on Google and other companies, but investigations continue"

A look at the quarterly State of the Internet Report. United States come in 18th out of 203, falling behind South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan.