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Hi, I'm Leslie, and I'm a Twitterholic. I am on Twitter all day, every day. It has become my constant companion on my MacBook and my phone/PDA. It feeds my need for constant stimulation to help keep me focused, as I work best when multitasking.
I am not one of the people who [...]

I’ve been keeping my eye on Red Lasso since November 2007 when it first hit the social media news scene.  It had been in various stages of closed beta and development for a while before then.  The content wrangling site found rapid success and several early adopters, but quickly started to hit snags.
The premise behind [...]

The New York Times may not be the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase "in touch with technology", but the venerable rag has been steadily keeping up with the changing times. Handling technological advances and trends much better than its counterparts, it continues to innovate by announcing that it will [...]

Citizen journalism has been a hot topic across the blogosphere since 9/11, only growing more apparently useful during the resulting Iraq war and the current election. Citizen journalists are the reason imprisoned bloggers have been freed, and through social media like Twitter the citizen journalist has helped stop everything from voter fraud to African poachers.
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A while back a little RSS feed tool was released called Snackr. The basic idea behind Snackr is that it takes your RSS feeds and scrolls them across your desktop, so you get a constant stream of updated news and can pick whatever looks most interesting as it goes by. I tried Snackr for a [...]

We wrote about handy tool Remember the Milk when it first came out, and both Remember the Milk and Twitter have been popping up in social media news individually since then. Now we are happy to write that two of our favorite web tools will be able to work together to improve your productivity and [...]

In spite of the recent upswing in early adopters using social media sites like Twitter, FaceBook and FriendFeed to improve their businesses, a shockingly high number of companies are getting left behind as they refuse to embrace this new technology. Stuck in a rut based in misunderstanding, they cut employees off from the online [...]

One of the presenters at Ignite Boston 3 this week was Joe Cascio. He has been discussing his ideas for new and improved social media applications using distributed systems instead of dedicated ones. He theorizes about taking the concept of data portability and data ownership by the users of social networks and applying it to [...]

New to the social music scene is Concert Attack. This new site wants you to take an event that is already social, a concert, and make it even more so. It takes many of the aspects of a social music site like MOG or a social networking site like MySpace and applies them to the [...]