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On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we watch as Hurricane Gustav once again batters the Gulf Shore. Today, many of us are glued to both the TV and the

Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop

A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of

Half of U.S. adults use social media. That is, they do according to the latest findings from Universal McCann's "Media in Mind" study, an ongoing research effort that analyzes how

This week we're looking at how Web technology is being used in the Beijing Olympics. In today's post we check out how some of the world's leading brands are using

There has been a lot of talk lately about the changing face of the blogging landscape. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger asked if blogging has lost its relational focus; Scoble explained

While companies may struggle to catch on with social media, the government seems to be taking steps to do the same. We're surprised they waited this long! According to

iLink, a social network analytics technology from SRI International has recently been integrated into three online communities used by the military: Platoon Leader, Company Command, and the Family Readiness Group.

In May, we discussed many different ways that social media could be used for social change. One company that has been using the medium for doing social good is SocialVibe.

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source