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Digsby combines instant messaging, email and social networking.

Thanks to social media, there's an online trail of everything we do, with "friends" and "followers" as the audiences of the reality show starring each of us.

Are socially engaging art installations truly an introspective means for change or do they merely serve as attention-grabbing photo-ops? Check out this one by Sahil & Sarthak Design Co. and leave us your views…

Frictionless sharing sounds good - but sometimes you'll go out of your way to put a little friction (or a little white lie) back in.

in a social network world, estrangement is being redefined, with new complications

Bozeman City, Montana now asks all applicants for jobs to 'Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,' the City form states. There are then three lines where applicants can list the Web sites, their user names and log-in information and their passwords.

Well, it finally had to get done, the movie we have all been waiting for. NY Film Festival 2010 highlighting the birth of Facebook.

I get people who want to talk about something on behalf of a client, and they go and recommend it to their friends using their trust factor, then that is the very definition of social marketing.

danah boyd talk at MacArthur Forum

Arts Engine's Media That Matters is the premier showcase for short films with big messages. Submit your film now for the chance to be one of the final twelve jury-selected films and become part of our outreach and distribution efforts to create social change through film.

"Computer scientists and policy experts say that ... innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person's identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number."

"Young people may seem like social media mavens, and employers may expect them to be, but students need to learn how to exploit digital tools "

"A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook. [Her insurer] confirmed that it uses the popular social networking site to investigate clients."

Read IAnD's story on Miki Agrawal, a young social entrepreneur from New York, whose innovative design is not only empowering women but working towards a greener environment

Medical science on one hand and sensitive acceptance of important life changes on the other - together aid quality life for senior citizens. Check out this mobility concept and leave us your views…

Many a time art becomes the via media to evoke responsiveness in the numbed disposition called mankind! Check out artist Maxwell Rushton's installation that put the thoughts back into you cap!!