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Two men responsible for starting groups on Facebook to incite U.K. riots were sentenced to four years in jail. Although the Facebook groups did not lead to any rioting, law enforcement hopes the sentence will deter others from similar actions. An unrelated woman received five months jail time for wearing contraband shorts her roommate gave Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110817_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Two men responsible for starting groups on Facebook to incite riots in London were sentenced to four years in jail. Although the Facebook groups did not lead to any rioting, law enforcement hopes the sentence will deter others from similar actions. In other news, AT&T recently announced Continue Reading →

August 15, 2011—New York, NY—SELF, the women’s well-being and fitness magazine published by Condé Nast, introduces the SELF Diet Tapper, the first ever consumer text-based diet program. The program, created by Editor-in-Chief Lucy Danziger, will provide SMS texts five times daily to send a friendly reminder for users to simply “Eat! Drink! Move!” during the Continue Reading →

Viral Marketing is not what you think it is. The moment your client opens his mouth and utters the question “What about a viral marketing campaign?”, your stomach contracts and you experience a little dizzy spell. You mean a crazy video that costs nothing and spreads like wildfire? That lottery ticket for $1 that garners Continue Reading →

Observation one: A double-dose of diversity in latenight talk/variety programs was launched two years ago almost to the week, when TBS announced Lopez Tonight and BET greenlighted a weeknight excursion headlined by Oscar-winning actress/comedian/specials host Monique. Last week, Lopez Tonight signed off for good at TBS, and the final Monique Show episode surfaces before Labor Continue Reading →

The U.K. prime minister recently called out Facebook, Twitter and RIM to take responsibility for the content pushed through their networks. The companies will soon meet with the prime minister and responded by removing some content that could incite violence. The government may be better off fighting social media, with social media. Read the full Continue Reading →

Google recently rolled out the ability to play games on its social network Google+. This will help challenge Facebook’s impressive time-on-site generated by addictions like Farmville, and makes another way for people to waste time at work. You can probably guess the first game to make its way to Google+. Yep, Angry Birds. Read the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/110812_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The U.K. prime minister recently called out Facebook, Twitter and RIM to take responsibility for the content pushed through their networks. The companies will soon meet with the prime minister and responded by removing some content that could incite violence. The government may be better off fighting Continue Reading →

If the enemy’s “command and control” is housed in a bunch of social media cloud applications, you must ask the question, “Are social networking tools valid military targets?” Continue Reading →

The NYPD recently announced that it created a task force to troll social media sites for clues of criminal activity in the real world. The police bet that if you’re dumb enough to commit a crime, you might just post about it on Facebook. Police in London are currently using social media sites to identify Continue Reading →