Over the course of the last month, the repeated accusations and frustrations that social media networks are violating our privacy have been hard to ignore. Facebook undoubtedly leads the industry in consumer complaints, but in the latest scandal MySpace is part of the bundle. The Wallstreet Journal reported this morning that a few sites including [...]
One of the up and coming social media players, Foursquare, is growing and growing quickly. It’s sitting at 725 million users as of March 29th and as it gained those last 100 million users in 12 days, Foursquare shows no sign of slowing down. Foursquare is a location-based social game. When you go to places [...]
One of my favorite blogs, ReadWriteWeb is holding what they call an “unconference” today in Mountain View, California. The topic is mobile development trends, and it seems like they plan to cover just about every niche of the industry I can think of: geo-location services, commerce & marketing, content/publishing, mobile social networking, augmented reality, and [...]