Apple’s new lineup has been announced: A new iPod touch with a Retina display and dual cameras, a bite-sized touchscreen Nano, a sandwich-sized stream-only Apple TV, and updates to both iTunes and iOS, improving their social and gaming capabilities. We’ve got the news in about 20 separate posts, sure, but we have yet to apply [...]

Inflection, a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $ 30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. Founded in 2006, Inflection aggregates public records and data from past and present and currently operates Archives.com, a site that sources historical records made available [...]

Question by jeremy: How can the people take the enormous amount of power that BIG MEDIA has in presidential elections? The press plays a vital role in our democracy, shaping citizens’ understanding of social and political issues and functioning as gatekeepers through which issues, people, and events must pass. No matter what you care about [...]

Question by Pedro: Should Religion take advantage of evolving Social Media and move away from mortar-&-brick style congregations? maybe one day there will be no need to attend a church, synagogue or mosque video conferencing, twitter, facebook, IM, and a host of other applications can eliminate the need for traditional church attendance…especially if influential religious [...]

I have a mission for you. One so lofty, so arduous, so utterly impossible that many of you may abandon the cause. We’re going to reclaim the Facebook Poke. Why? For the same reason we climb mountains, cross seas… Mashable!

rocketboom.com Click on the link above for more info on today’s episode. The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim. For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation at meme.ly For more on Fair Use in Online Video see the [...]

How Businesses Can Take Advantage of the Social Network Boom Thanks to the Internet’s presence, people from all walks of life are now able to use various web sites and social networks to meet new people, reconnect with old friends and broadcast their lives in the World Wide Web. This new social trend has opened [...]

Scam Artists Take Advantage of Independent Musicians Who Utilize Social Networks Independent musicians who try to find managers, booking agents, and publicists through Myspace, Facebook, and other social networks, need to be aware of people who will approach the band to try and take advantage of them. The person who is promising promotion and shows could ultimately be a scam [...]

Take Control of Your Brand on Social Media In the midst of the social media mayhem it’s important to sit back and evaluate how to protect your brand in a realm where free speech is the name of the game. For many businesses, social media is a way to monitor the chatter- good or bad- [...]

The Social Media Scam: Precautions To Take! Social networking is the in thing for celebrities now. Various stars like Oprah Winfrey or Ashton Kutcher are now keen to become a part of the social media. Be it politicians, or athletes or even the common man – being a part of the social media seems to [...]