• Social Media Evangelization for World Communications Day

  Initiative Invites Catholic Media Offices Around the World To Share Online Pastoral ResourcesROME, May 10, 2013 (Zenit.org) - On the occasion of the this year's World Communications Day, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications is inviting people from around the world to partake in the "Mesa Comun" (Shared Table). The initiative allows the faithful of the Catholic Church ...

• Facebook Rejects Breast Cancer Ad For Violating Ban Against ‘Adult Products’

  pressuring Facebook to take a stronger stance in favor of women’s health and crackdown against messages that "trivialize or glorify" violence against women. ';I’m a big supporter of that ...

• Podcasting to Become the Newest Social Media Marketing Trend

  video or audio files which are sent over the web. They can be downloaded on the consumer's computer device or streamed online. Many marketers use podcasts to spread the word about a product or a service. The reason for this is that podcasting has many benefits. For instance, it does not have a topic limitation. Also, podcasts resemble lectures and listeners can often learn something useful ...

• King Khan says kabhi haan kabhi naa to Twitter After 3 months Shah Rukh returns to micro-blogging site

  After finishing the shoot of his upcoming action-comedy 'Chennai Express', superstar Shah Rukh Khan is back on micro-blogging site Twitter.The 47-year-old actor, who has been missing from Twitter since three months, re-tweeted co-star Deepika Padukone's post about the completion of their film."Deepika tweeted: Finished shooting for 'Chennai Express'. Expressed my ...

• Australians now using social media in bedrooms and toilet cubicles

  A GROWING number of the Australians are using social networks wherever they can: workplaces, schools, bedrooms, and even the toilet cubicle. A new study of Australian internet users found more than three in five now use social media, with almost half of users logging on daily and some more than five times a day. Australian Facebook users are spending more than seven hours on the site every week, ...

• Cameroon limits social media services

  The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...

• Officers Facebook posts under fire

  DOTHAN — The Dothan Personnel Board expects to take at least two to three weeks to decide what could be a landmark case involving the use of social media by police. The board held a four-hour hearing Thursday in the case of Cpl. Raemonica Carney. She turned to the board after she was suspended for 10 days without pay and put on probation for two years for Facebook posts that department ...

• Has Facebook lost its cool aura

  Recently I read a status update on Facebook, which reflected the current state of mind of almost everyone around me - 'What does it mean when you spend more time on Linkedin than Facebook ?' While this particular update received a number of witty comments, the fact of the matter is that Facebook is no more the number one social networking site, which people ...

• Follow us on Twitter

  Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location ...

• Four days of video content uploaded to YouTube every minute

  For most of us, things that take up roughly a minute of our time might include checking e-mails, brushing your teeth or microwaving up a cold cup of coffee. ...

• Facebooks face-recognition faces firestorms

  Facebook will once again find itself in the center of firestorms related to privacy issues as its move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site stirs ire among users.Facebook noted that starting in just a few weeks, its system will scan all photos posted to Facebook and will offer up the names of the people who appear in the frame.All of Facebook's users are ...

• When ideas collide How face-to-face meetings achieve what the Internet cannot

  Kristen McLean with Bookigee makes a presentation at the Florida Venture Forum's Early Stage Conference. With the majority of communications taking place in cyberspace, one may wonder if theres still a place for conferences and meetings with in-person, unscripted human interaction. For entrepreneurs seeking to grow their companies, and investors and others looking to preview new ...

• 5 Steps to Making a Sale Through Social Media

  An integral part of the sales process is getting to know your prospects and establishing relationships—and it turns out that social media can help you accomplish this quickly and easily. Follow these steps to make sales using social ...

• New Research Social Media Trends For Marketers In 2013

  Social Media Examiner has just released its annual Social Media Marketing report. It reveals some interesting data about this year's social media marketing trends. The entire report is available for ...

• Bringing the Word of God to Twitter

  World Day of Communications: English, Wales Bishops Share Scripture Through Social MediaBy Ann SchneibleROME, May 09, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During this Year of Faith, leaders of the Catholic Church of England and Wales are encouraging the faithful to use Twitter to spread the Word of God.For each day of the Holy Year, beginning last October, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and ...

• Jays 3B Brett Lawrie ejected sister lashes out on Twitter

  Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie throws his gloves off after being called out on strikes by home plate umpire Dan Bellino in the bottom of the third inning Friday. (Nathan Denette/Canadian ...

• Facebook Phone launch canceled in U.K. as Home gets facelift

  The HTC First. Plans to launch the HTC First, aka the "Facebook phone," in the U.K. have been indefinitely delayed and pre-orders refunded, according Facebook and the carrier that was to carry the device exclusively. In the United States, after AT&T dropped the device's price, that seemed like confirmation that sales have been nowhere near what was ...

• Remember Me is a beat em up video game for the Facebook generation

  Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment's upcoming "Remember Me" combines beat 'em up action with a cautionary tale about social media gone wrong. Being perched on the precipice of a new console generation has made video game developers reflect about their own relationship with technology. ...

• Twitter Amplify Turns Up the Volume On Dual-Screen Advertising

  Sponsored tweet shows instant NBA replay preceded by a short commercial Twitter is creating a new way to make money for itself and media partners with a service called "Twitter Amplify. On ...

• i Assistant Editors Letter Social media and citizen journalism

  Social media are playing an increasingly large role in news gathering - none more so than this week in the aftermath of the attempted beheading of the off-duty soldier outside Woolwich barracks and the incident involving a BA flight from Heathrow yesterday morning. "Citizen journalism" took over our screens on Wednesday, with footage of the two suspects in the aftermath of the murder ...

• Mass. teen accused of Facebook terror post denied bail

  Cameron Dambrosio is arraigned in Lawrence District Court on charges of making a bomb threat on his Facebook page in Lawrence, Mass., Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/The Eagle-Tribune, Paul Bilodeau, Pool) ...

• Dish draws scrutiny to SoftBank-Sprint security

  Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp.,the Japanese wireless carrier bidding for control of Sprint Nextel Corp. Dish Network Corp. seems to have found some traction with its complaints of national security concerns surrounding Tokyo-based SoftBank Corp.s deal to buy mobile phone carrier Sprint Nextel Corp. Dish, the Douglas County-based satellite TV company, wants ...

• Tech Wildcatters hosts largest program in its 5-year history

  San Francisco residents Ben Jorgensen, left, and David Martin of Klick Push chose to participate in the Tech Wildcatters seed accelerator program in Dallas because they felt the community was more willing to foster the tech startup. Dallas Tech Wildcatters this week hosted its largest program since the group's inception five years ago. The seed accelerator, which works to develop companies, ...

• Twitter Chat About Premature Births

  . Because half a million babies are born premature each year, we asked parents of premature babies and experts in the field to join a conversation about innovations in care, what to expect at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and how parents have coped with the ups and downs of their child's health. The ...

• Twitter Launches Tool for TV Ads

  Twitter is attempting to secure its position at the nexus between television and digital media, announcing a new TV ad- targeting programme along with a flurry of partnerships with media ...

• NuoDB co-founder and CTO departs succeeded by early employee

  Seth Proctor, formerly a developer at NuoDB, has been named the company's new CTO. Cambridge-based NuoDB, developer of a database built to work in the cloud which aims to power the Web of the future, says co-founder Jim Starkey has retired from the CTO position at the firm. He has been succeeded in the role by company developer Seth Proctor. Starkey had spent three decades working in ...

• CORRECTED-Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattics WordPress.com

  SAN FRANCISCO May 24 (Reuters) - Automattic, the company that operates blogging service WordPress.com, announced a $50 million investment from hedge fund Tiger Global on ...

• Video Senators fans go pantless in Rihannaing Twitter trend

  Rihanna's pantless pose on Twitter prompted Ottawa Senators blogger Eric Doty to create the "Rihannaing" hashtag. Now Sens fans are dropping their trousers for the ...

• Tables turned Facebook hit with social media campaign over sexist content

  That's what's happening to American Express, Dove, Zipcar, Audible and more. (Screenshots of these images next to Facebook advertising have been posted online, it's extremely graphic content ...

• Is Google Angling To Outbid Facebook For Waze

  Google Maps is a frontrunner in the mapping and navigation market for both traditional PCs and smartphones. However, startups have been known to edge in to take a little slice of the pie by offering unique features. Until Google tries to buy them. The search-engine giant is currently in talks to buy map software provider Waze Inc, ...

• Florida would provide parts to U.S.-produced Apple computer line

  US-based Apple Mac line would include components from Florida, according to company CEO Tim Cook Florida got a bite of good news from Apple during Tim Cooks recent Senate hearing testimony on taxes, with the CEO announcing Florida would take part in a U.S.-based Mac line. He wasnt specific about where in Florida, but Cook did say Texas would be home base for assembling the Mac line. Illinois and ...

• Valley vintner gets weird on Tim Cooks tax problems

  A toast to Tim Cook. Gilroy winery owner Thomas Kruse raises a glass in a photo for the winery's newsletter. Talk about seizing on current events for a little off-color company marketing. The Internet was consumed earlier this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook's appearance before a Senate committee to talk U.S. tax-dodging with overseas subsidiaries, particularly in Ireland (read more about ...

• Secret Twitter garden reveals itself when you tweet

  (Credit: University of Lincoln) It's always good to stop and smell the roses, but sometimes you have to tweet to access them. At least that's how it works with an interactive Internet-connected garden created by the ...

• Under house arrest Chinese bishop uses social media to encourage pilgrimage

  Imprisoned Bishop Ma Daqin of Shanghai used social media to lead the faithful in prayer on May 24 as Chinese Catholics observed the feast of Our Lady of Sheshan on May 24. Bishop Ma, who is living under house arrest at an undisclosed location in Shanghai, is recognized by the Vatican as the rightful Bishop of Shanghai. He has been denounced by the Beijing government since, at his episcopal ...

• Video Students create car that runs on social media

  High school students from Kansas City, Mo., turned an old-school Volkswagen Karmann Ghia into an electric car that runs on social fuel. KCTV's Alice Barr ...

• Ashton Kutcher on Twitter Media kind of fed it up

  Did the media really screw up Twitter? That's what actor Ashton Kutcher suggested when he spoke at the recent CTIA 2013 wireless conference. "Twitter's experience has changed for me, pretty drastically. It used to be sort of a personalized, experience for me, a really personal experience that I could share. I think for lack of a better verb, I think the media kind of f***ed it ...

• Google may start bidding war with Facebook over Waze

  Google , maker of the Android operating system, is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook, people familiar with the matter ...

• How cat photos on caturday helped me understand Google+

  Hello? Is anyone out there? Thats how a lot of people feel when they log on to Google+ and try to interact with friends and business connections, many of whom are off chatting on other social media platforms. The experience used to be a lonely one for me. The often non-chronological order of Google+s news feed confused me, too. That is until curiosity got the best of me, and I started watching ...

• Robots on the big screen have ties to Kansas City entrepreneur Video

  Crackerneck is the name of a Golem Workshop prototype. When "Man of Steel" premieres next month, a Kansas City-area robotics engineer may experience a sense of dj vu. The debut will mark the second time Derek Scherer's handiwork has shown up on the big screen. Derek Scherer, who used to build battlefield robots for the U.S. Army, also played a part in the animatronic creatures in ...

• Washington University professor steers X Prize to Alzheimers

  A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments and potentially a cure for Alzheimers disease. The X Prize Foundation awarded a $10 million prize in 2004 to the first company that built a spacecraft capable of carrying three ...

• ABQ Civic Tech Day seeks innovation through open data

  The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The University of New Mexico will be the local host for a National Day of Civic Hacking event on Saturday, June 1. The event, ABQ Civic Tech Day, is designed for programmers to work together to develop local apps, or ideas for their own projects, during hackathon sessions. Two of ...

• 4 startups totally screwed if bridges keep collapsing and roads disappear

  Trapped on a broken bridge, part of the Everett Collection. A s bridges collapse and roads erode, the burgeoning transportation startup scene could be looking at hard times. With the collapse last night of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state, its a good time to remember that without infrastructure beneath it, transportation innovation will hit a major pothole. But there is ...

• United offering more premium perks from New York

  United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...

• Compare Metrics filing reveals more funding details

  A regulatory filing provided additional details about the Compare Metrics Inc. Series A financing announced earlier this week. The Austin-based software maker received nearly $4.4 million from 12 investors, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Compare Metrics, founded in 2010 as Compare Networks LLC, develops search tools for e-commerce websites with a ...

• Man charged with making malicious comments about murdered soldier on Facebook

  A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby. Benjamin Flatters, of Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.He was charged with an offence of malicious communications ...

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