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I was proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Digital Leadership Awards on Thursday at the Media Technology Summit 2012. The Digital Leadership Awards™ are bestowed by the Digital Leadership Academy to honor senior executives, artists, educators, public servants and government officials who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the conception, creation and execution of Continue Reading →

Wednesday on Twitter, Frank Shaw, lead of corporate communications at Microsoft tamped down expectations concerning the potential 2013 release of Office for iOS and Android devices. Here is his tweet in full: “The information shared by our Czech Republic subsidiary is not accurate. We have nothing further to share.” As TNW reported earlier, rumors sparked Continue Reading →

AT&T has the Nokia Lumia 820 and T-Mobile announced on Monday it will offer the Lumia 810. But what Windows Phone 8 devices will Verizon Wireless carry? If leaks on evleaks‘ Twitter account can be trusted, Verizon will get its own variant of the new Lumia series called the Lumia 822, code-named “Atlas.” If it’s Continue Reading →

According to AllThingsD, Twitter has decided to get into the business of hosting video by acquiring NYC startup Vine. We’ve reached out to Twitter but haven’t been able to confirm this as of yet. If true, this marks an important milestone for Twitter, which is in complete attack mode when it comes to turning into Continue Reading →

Even with stiff competition from Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Google’s Nexus 7 is arguably the best 7-inch tablet on the market right now. The only downside to the Jelly Bean-powered tablet is that it only comes in two models: 8GB and 16GB. That’s fine for downloading a few light games and digital books, but Continue Reading →

The US Air Force has spent over $60 billion on the F-22, a fighter that doesn’t really work and sometimes chokes people. How much is it spending on Twitter? Judging by the output, negative $50,000. It’s hard to figure out exactly what the taxpayer-funded @usairforce is there for. It’s a mix of historical blips, links Continue Reading →

In the midst of Big Bird-gate, PBS shrewdly purchased the character’s name as an advertising keyword on Twitter to promote the public broadcaster on the social network. The decision shows how companies are learning to respond to the massive but short-lived ad opportunities that bubble up on social media. First, some context. If you somehow Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121005_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Facebook hit a significant milestone on Thursday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network now has over one billion – that’s billion with a B – daily users, with 600 million of those users active on Facebook’s mobile platform. Twitter, meanwhile, set a record of its Continue Reading →

Wednesday night’s U.S. presidential debate in Denver, Colo. was the most-tweeted-about event in American political history, dwarfing records set by this year’s Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. In total, the debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney generated 10.3 million tweets in 90 minutes — a political-event record, Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/121004_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] We all know that social networking has many features, from keeping in touch with friends to finding out about our favorite celebrity personalities. Now, we can firmly add crime-fighting to that list. The NYPD is increasing its online investigative department after arresting 49 gang members from two Continue Reading →