These are my links for October 25th through October 26th:

• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.
• Debt collectors warned off pursuing punters on Facebook • The Register – Debt collectors should not be allowed to chase people who owe them money on social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, the UK's Office of Fair Trading has said.
• Hackathons: Meet the world’s fastest inventors – May 2011. In a warehouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, more than 400 hackers, journalists and venture capitalists gather to watch the presentations of 110 teams of coders at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC hackathon. Each has sixty seconds to pitch their idea.
• Heinz Lets Friends Send "Get Well" Cans of Soup via Facebook – The next time one of your friends complains about an illness on Facebook, go a step further and send them a can of soup instead of a simple “Get well!” message on his or her Wall (or Timeline).
• BBC News – Using social media in the Middle East – The role of social media has grown dramatically in the Middle East – thanks to the Arab Spring.
• Tweet life: Portraits of Twitter users – Ever wondered where tweeters are tweeting from? So did photographer Michael Hughes. He explains how he tracked some of them down for his latest project
• For Twitter, Free Speech Matters — Not Real Names [Headlines] @PSFK –
• Chime.in: Do we need another social network? – Until someone figures out how to cram more than 24 hours into a day, people have a limited amount of time. Most of us don't spend 100 percent of it on the Internet. And we don't devote all of the time we do spend on the Net to social networking.
• Brand Audit Best Practices – Social chatter and noise can be very distracting when you try and measure what is being said about your company, key industry concepts and your site.   And as we all know the social networks are ever changing.
• Google teams up with Citizens Advice Bureau – Telegraph – Google’s first ever advertising campaign for online safety launches today, in association with the Citizens Advice Bureau
• BBC News – David Cameron LinkedIn: Social media in UK politics – David Cameron has signed himself up to business networking website LinkedIn – proof positive, if it was needed, that politicians' obsession with social media continues undaunted.
• A fresh start for Google presentations – is this the end for PowerPoint? I hope so… – Today Google is rounding out its Docs suite by previewing a new version of presentations with faster collaboration and more features
• Worth It? Finding New Ways to Distract Yourself Online – Digits – WSJ – Website discovery engine StumbleUpon might not have as many members as Facebook, but this summer it surpassed Facebook as the biggest referrer of Web traffic to other sites, according to StatCounter.
• How Many Tweets Does It Take to Impress the CEO? –
• #OccupyWallStreet: From A Single Hashtag, A Protest Circled The World – It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.
• 1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad [VIDEO] – Kids today. They think the world revolves around them, that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.