Wanna follow the Olympics via Social Media? Now you can!
Just announced on the Twitter Blog, NBC has put together an official Olympics Twitter Tracker to help you follow your favorite Olympic athletes. The tracker shows a realtime display of a collection of tweets, blog posts, and more for verified Olympic athletes and allows you to interact and retweet this information with your followers.
Social Networking Sites and your Online Privacy
I’ve put together a post over on my Design and Photography Blog www.moongrabber.com concerning the issue of Social Networking Sites and how they share your personal information. In fact, did you know that with Google’s new Social Search deal they will now be able to index and share your status updates (and possibly other information [...]
TwitCritics or how to get Movie Reviews from Twitter
TwitCritics is a new Social Media Mashup by Chris Nicholls, Jonathan Haber and Jess Mary Nissen that gathers Tweets for the latest movies and determines whether they are positive and negative. They are then able to take this data and provide a rating for the film based on the positive and negative trends. TwitCritics also [...]
Thwart Social Media Identity Theft and Check/Register Usernames with KnowEm
Not just for businesses any more, your social media identity is becoming increasingly important in online (and offline) communication, but how does one keep track of all of these new sites and usernames. Enter KnowEm (http://knowem.com/). KnowEm starts with a basic (free) service that allows you to search for your username on over 300 social [...]
New Facebook Virus Scam out in the wild
Facebook has just put up a new post warning users about a new virus/scam making its rounds. The scam appears to be a Facebook Email, warning of new login security, that requires the user to click a link and subsequently captures their account information through a look-a-like Facebook site. Here’s the official word from Facebook: [...]
Google’s Social Search goes live
Last week it was Bing’s turn in the spotlight, and now it appears that Google has jumped on the Social Search bandwagon as well. Google’s Social Search will integrate into their current search results and display relevant status updates from social media sites including Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed. The new Social Search will also display content [...]