Facebooks IPO debuted yesterday. It was not a great beginning as Facebooks bankers had to step in numerous times to keep the shares from plunging below the $38 IPO listing price. Facebook [NASDAQ: FB...
Attensity has announced the results of its study which analyzed public reaction in social media to the new Facebook Timeline format for profile pages. Using Attensity Analyze, the company processed 1...
A new study by JustAsk! from Crowd Science reveals some findings about how mothers are using social media. The study found that half of moms are friends with their children on Facebook. Sandra Marsha...
University of Bergen Doctor of Psychology Cecilie Schou Andreassen (pictured on the right) heads a research project about Facebook addiction. She says Facebook addiction occurs more regularly in youn...
AllThingsD reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, expects to bring in $45 million in revenues for 2012. AllThingsDs source is Automattic CEO Toni Schneider and founder Matt Mullen...
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Disney Channel has picked up a show called Dog With a Blog. Stan the blogging dog is a 4-year-old mixed breed adopted by a family. The step-siblings in the fam...
Socialtimes reports that Pinterest is now the third most popular social network in the U.S. This ranking is according to a new 2012 Digital Marketer report, which says "Pinterest is now the 3rd m...
Leif Denti, doctoral student of psychology at the University of Gothenburg, has conducted Swedens larget Facebook study ever. The researchers found Facebook is a habit-forming activity that can devel...
Conan OBrien says he has taken over the Mashable blog and ousted founder Pete Cashmore. The Mashable site is now powered by Conan OBrien. Conan says he called and yelled at Cashmore and told him to &...
Some nosy employers are apparently requiring the Facebook logins of employees and prosective employees. These incidents have given Facebook the opportunity to be on the right side of the privacy issu...
AllThingsD reports that Beats Electronics, a manufacturer of headphones, is buying MOG. The deal has not closed yet. MOGs Chrome player screen is pictured above. MOG initially launched as a music soc...
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been losing advertisers ever since he called Georgetown University student Sarah Fluke a "slut" on his radio program. Politico reports that Limba...
Reuters reports that CNN is in talks to buy Mashable. Buying the blog would enable CNN to ramp up its technology and social media coverage. It would also give it millions of new visitors. CNN did not...
Twitter has acquired the Posterous blogging service. Twitter says it is welcoming the Posterous team to Twitter in its blog post. The post is primarily about getting the engineers and developers from...
Researchers at Ohio State University have found that Facebook users typically rely on profile photographs to form an impression of people. Brandon Van Der Heide, lead author of the study and assistan...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology conducted a study and found that users say only a little over a third of t...
A company named DataSift is offering marketers Twitter data going back two years through its Historics service. The service, authorized by Twitter, will reportedly cost a minimum of $1,000 a month. G...
A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Centers Internet Project & American Life found that most people choose restricted privacy settings. Over half of social network users (52% to 60% depending ...
The Guardian reports that Twitter co-founder and creative director Biz Stone has warned too much Twitter can be bad for your health. He thinks it is unhealthy for people to stare at their Twitter fee...
Oprah tweeted a self-promotional tweet on Sunday that got her into trouble with the Nielsen ratings people. Oprah tweeted, "Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Neilsen box.&...
Facebook claims an enormous amount of monthly active users (845 million peeps) and daily active users (483 million peeps). DealBook reports that these numbers include people who do not visit facebook...
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has reported the results of its 2011 study on the blogging habits of the 2011 Inc. 500 companies. The study found that b...
Twitter caved in to censorship last week when it announced it will censor tweets on a country by country basis. Tweets blocked by the government in one country will still show up in another country. ...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook may file papers for an IPO as early as Wednesday of next week. The WSJ says the IPO could raise $10 billion for Facebook and give the company a mass...
Highlight is an iPhone app that aims to help you locate people in the real world. You can only find other people that have Highlight installed. The app alerts you when Highlight users are nearby and ...
Hugh MacLeod at Gaping Void was ready for the most recent "Blogging is Dead" meme and he will be ready again the next time the blogosphere dies. Former TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy recently...
The White House is now on Googles relatively new social network, Google+. The White Houses Google+ page, available here, includes news, photographs and videos. It is similar to what you will find on ...
Wordpress.org is one of several sites going dark to oppose the awful Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills. The bills give new powers to major entertainment and media co...
Bloggers Blog now has a Google+ page. Google+ is a relatively new social network from Google. Google recently started incorporating results from Google+ into a new personalized search feature called ...
Reddit has announced it will black out its regular content on January 18th from 8am to 8pm to protest the PIPA/SOPA legislation. Reddit has created a little Braveheart inspired figure to lead the cha...
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