When you're completely disconnected from the online world, when you refuse to engage in every collective breath over social media, are you really even alive anymore? One blogger tried, and this one can sympathize.
We could see how something like a company's social media rule book could be esoteric and uninteresting to regular readers, while somehow being interesting to journo dorks like us. But there's really interesting stuff in The Associated Press' new guidelines, we promise.
There's no doubt about it, today's news has been pretty horrific. These jerks made things worse, but on the other hand, they allowed some of us a target for our rage. Not that that helps us feel much better.
Hello Kitty gets a fighting update, while Hershey's and Dunkin' appealed to your sweet tooth to move up this week's rankings.
Jack Daniels and Sears got all patriotic on us, while Durex was just Durex and rode a sexy idea up the ranks.
Konami figured out you like soccer, while Chrysler and MLB tapped into their fanbases to rule the social media scene this week.
With the rise of the brogrammer, the waning of Mark Zuckerberg's hacker way, and an influx of blue blooded rich kids running the show, we wondered if the traditional kid-in-basement Silicon Valley hacker nerd had disappeared, leaving Silicon Valley without its essence.
Abercrombie capitalized on your weakness for shirtless men, while Anheuser Busch tapped into a seasonal shift.
We're sick of people telling us the right and wrong way to use Twitter, and that includes this missive by Slate's Farhad Manjoo reiterating his call for a longer character limits.
Whole Foods banks on Father's Day to rise in the rankings, BIC knows you like to win, while Zuffa, better known by their UFC brand, got you talking about the free fight night.
There's a summer theme on the social media ranks with companies like Daimler and Volvo taking their new models out for test drives and road trips, while Carnival Cruises and some German company (we'll explain later) banked on your summer vacations.
Today Twitter did something we're not used to from the company, it showed some business savvy, with Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announcing the company's mobile strategy is working, and the company is predicted to be bringing in $1 billion in revenue by 2014.
Now that Facebook and the rest of the social Web has succeeded in making the world more "open and connected" in the words of Social Internet King Mark Zuckerberg, the next phase of Internet will move beyond just connecting us to telling us what to do.
Twitter introduced its new bird doodle logo today and instead saying "Hey, birds tweet—look how cute this bird is," they've given us some overdetermined explanation about networks and circles or something.
It looks like someone may have hacked 6.46 million LinkedIn passwords. And, well, no one seems worried.
Dealbook's Evelyn M. Rusli reports that the music-sharing company Spotify is raising money as part of a deal that values it at $4 billion, and fresh off this morning's enormous $1.5 billion valuation for Pinterest, we can't help but fear this is more evidence of a social media bubble.
Unlike the other Internet tech bubble before it, this social media variant, which the Facebook IPO will only further prove exists, has kept its money pretty contained.
In the sixth update to its S-1 filing so far, Facebook admitted in unambiguous terms on Wednesday that it's in trouble on the mobile front and not quite sure what to do about it.
If you're a concerned parent, don't let the exposé-like title "Tweens' Secret Lives Online" of Katherine Rosman's article in today's Wall Street Journal fool you--it's a perfect guide for anyone wanting to wean their precocious child off of Facebook.
The Social Business Index is getting a good shakeup as 2012 leans into spring. The top twenty is seeing some new companies, including World Wrestling Entertainment.
Just when you thought Google+ was worn out and ready for the boring bin, the search giant unleashed its secret weapon: Graphic design.
Rick Santorum's "suspension" (read: termination) of his presidential campaign has caused an unintentional (we think) meme has sprung fully formed from Twitter's brain.
When we came across this social-media inspired cocktail menu the other day, it had us wondering what a marriage between two things we spend a lot of time with would look like. Is this what the Internet would taste like if it got you drunk?
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: Disney ruled the rankings while Intel figured out that you really, really liked talking about yourself.
Looking at Barack Obama's brand new Pinterest profile, he clearly understands the heavy female demographic on the social networking site.
Twitter's Communications team is trying to build buzz around the funny, weird and interesting events that could only happen on Twitter. It's called #OnlyOnTwitter.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters: This week, American Express trades money for tweets, Verizon gives tablets away for free, and DreamWorks drops the ball.
The AP reported on the most disconcerting trend in human resources: job applicants being asked to hand over their Facebook passwords. To see what employers might find, I gave a career coach the keys to my Facebook and Twitter accounts. (And, yes, I changed the passwords right afterward.)
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: McDonald's goes green, Zynga launches a new old game and people still like the Gap.
Twitter is growing up by doing grown-up company things like acquiring its direct competitors as it has done by buying the microblogging platform Posterous.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week:
On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook welcomed Israeli president Shimon Peres to its campus, where he spoke to the company's leadership about everything from Israeli's tech industry to the role of social media in promoting world peace.
A week after The Wall Street Journal boldly declared that Google+ was a ghost town, Google offered The New York Times a different version of the story.
The founders of Yelp, the same company that rejected a $500 million acquisition offer from Google two years ago, must be feeling absolutely fantastic about their first day trading on the stock market. But Google hasn't given up trying to take over the listings business.
You might be sad to learn that Facebook sends an average of 16 percent of the things you post on Facebook to your friends' news feeds. Then again, you might be glad.
What's missing in your birth control technique? Is it, maybe, a location-based app?
News of Apple's acquiring the app recommendation startup Chomp strikes us as interesting for exactly three reasons.
Every week we're taking a tally of who's getting heard, what they're saying, and why it matters. This week: A&E discovers shooting games, Chrysler rides the Clint Eastwood express and Mattel puts a classic game in a soda can.
After discovering that the United States Army had a profile on Pinterest, we talked to the Army's social media operation to get some insight into what made them jump on the latest Internet trend. Hint: It has to do with ladies.
Mark Zuckerberg, or someone pretending to be Mark Zuckerberg, has made a profile on Pinterest, another sign of the social media site of the moment's ascendance.
Considering the heavy female demographic happening on Pinterest, we were surprised to find the U.S. Army had a well-stocked profile, until we checked out the rest of their online goings-on
With the Susan G. Komen foundation backing off of its decision to rescind funding from Planned Parenthood and the halting of SOPA last month, 2012 is turning out to be the year of the virtual protester.
The Associated Press released a shiny new set of social media guidelines on Tuesday, a sure sign that one of the world's oldest media organizations is making moves to keep up with the times.
Those little blue checks don't come cheap if you aren't a household name.
We hate to be the bearers of obvious news, but Facebook is making money off of your profile. Yes, even the new and improved and so far sort of confusing Timeline edition.
Authorities found the mutilated body of yet another blogger, the fourth in the past three months, who was executed by the drug cartels in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo.
The Twittersphere thinks Poynter's Jeff Sonderman's solution to the Associated Press's new, stricter social media guidelines is a joke.
With a bevy of strong growth stats at his back, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is getting pretty ambitious about his company's increasingly prominent status not just as a tech start-up but as a new kind of media company.
The New York Federal Reserve Bank is the latest organization to keep an eye on your tweets
Three in ten teens said in a poll that their social media accounts had been hacked
A slew of investors are backing the blogging service
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