Twitter

According to Wikipedia, “Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as ‘tweets.’” Twitter’s brand personality is that of a service that allows us to communicate with each other in short, text-based messages. One could argue that Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120808_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] When we talk about hackers, the image that comes to mind is often of secretive computer geniuses hiding somewhere where they can’t be traced. But sometimes hacking takes little digital skill. Recently, Wired writer Mat Honan had nearly his entire digital life destroyed by hackers who were Continue Reading →

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely Continue Reading →

Hundreds of thousands of developers know that building apps that rely on the Facebook or Twitter platforms comes at a risk—at any time, the companies can change their access rules or launch a competing feature. The risk is often worth the built-in audience and data from millions of users. Just look at how Zynga grew. Continue Reading →

The Socialympics? Nope. Just Social and Olympic. Everyone seems to want to talk about how social media is impacting NBC’s Olympic coverage. “Look at the velocity of tweets!” “Look at the ratings!” “Twitter must be helping raise awareness and therefore impacting ratings.” “Social media is the secret to saving appointment television viewing!” Maybe, but I Continue Reading →

(This content was originally posted on KellerFay.com) There were two stories in the press about Facebook last Thursday that caught my eye. The first was the story of Facebook’s first earnings report since going public. Investor expectations were not met and the stock tumbled. The same day, a new research study was released and reported with this headline: Continue Reading →

Social discovery will remake the Internet, or at least how we plumb it. Need evidence? Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google’s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsoft’s addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. Social discovery is philosophy of online search that holds that people are more likely to Continue Reading →

Twitter is getting in on the social analysis game. The micro-blog will publish a daily measurement of Twitter sentiment surrounding the 2012 presidential election called the Twitter Political Index, the company announced Wednesday. The Index works like this: Every day, it scans every tweet mentioning one of the candidates and weighs it against millions of Continue Reading →

I was born in 1980, making me a part of the first ‘computer-native’ generation. I literally cannot remember an existence without computers as a part of daily life. Sure, they were rarer when I was young, especially for those without the access I had, but they were always around. The next generational wave had cell Continue Reading →

Hulu Plus is quietly rolling out to Apple TV set-top boxes Tuesday morning. It was on our hockey pucks when we turned them on, while reports on Twitter indicate losing the connection before the icon appeared once the box came back online. We’re checking it out now, and like Netflix, it allows users to pay Continue Reading →