Twitter

As we’ve mentioned a number of times, Twitter has been gradually tip-toeing further and further into the media business for some time now. It has already become a real-time newswire for many, a source of breaking news and commentary on live events, and now — with the launch of curated “hashtag pages” like the one Continue Reading →

Twitter just announced that it will now personalize its trending topics section based on your location and who you follow. This update, says Twitter, will ensure that the trending topics list will now “show emerging topics that matter more to you.” You will still be able to switch back to the standard, non-personalized view and Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120612_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] It’s that time of year. Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference opened yesterday and true to form, some very exciting announcements were made. Apple’s top executives took to the stage to show off the new MacBook Pro with the world’s highest resolution notebook display and up to 768GB of Continue Reading →

Bots in Facebook? Robots in Twitter? Pinterest Run by HAL 9000? It’s all very possible.That’s right, surprisingly. in the next phase of the social web, brands are applying analysis and digital intelligence to better reach us. Read more at Tech Crunch. Continue Reading →

The San Francisco Bay Area is notorious for its great earthquakes….but the ripples and shockwaves don’t stop there- for the area is also famous for producing huge economic bubbles.  When I moved to San Francisco in 1995 from Chicago, I got a job as Program Manager at KCSM-TV, a PBS station in San Mateo.  I Continue Reading →

Originally posted at Meng Online. This is the final post of a MENG Blend trilogy presenting easy changes that you can quickly make to improve your resume.  Most were presented in the MENGinar “How to Improve Your Resume in 60 Minutes,” available free to MENG members.  The first two posts in the trilogy were:  “Seven Continue Reading →

Mozilla’s Do Not Track feature, which allows users to tell websites that they would like to opt-out of being tracked by third parties, is starting to gain some traction among both users and publishers. According to new data shared by Mozilla today, 8.6% of Firefox desktop users and 19% of mobile users now turn this Continue Reading →

Hackers claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed this week to have accessed and published the details of about 55,000 Twitter accounts.  Read the full story at Mashable Continue Reading →

MIT Professor Sherry Turkle wrote a powerful opinion piece in this past Sunday’s New York Times Sunday Review in which she draws a sharp distinction between conversations that take place face-to-face, in the real world, and connections that get made online through social networking sites. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120426_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] If you’re into social media, you’ve probably heard of Klout.  That’s K-lout.  According to Klout’s website, your Klout Score measures influence based on your ability to drive action. Every time you create content or engage you influence others.  So, your Klout score is supposed to measure how Continue Reading →