Oh memories. There's nothing quite like writing something like this where I get to walk down the path of the past and remind myself of what it was like the...

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Years before the notion of Web 2.0, dialup and AOL ruled the nation and the web existed in its 1.0 infancy. After the benefits of logging online were experienced by the...

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Lawyers are filling up their deep pockets with all these constant lawsuits about patents. The lawsuits have been non-stop between large tech companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Samsung. Last year, 107,792 patents were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. What does that mean for social media?


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Growing up in the US, I obviously can't speak for what it's like to interact with Government agencies in other parts of the world. Here, though, there's always that degree of separation between "we the people" and Uncle Sam. Since 2009, NASA has been trying to change that, all in the name of following a 1958 legislative act to the letter.I had a chance to talk this week with NASA Social Media Manager Stephanie Schierholz about the history of NASA's outreach, as well as the future. Since so many [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying, "If I had to guess, social commerce is next to blow up."  The statistics say that 150 million people are engaging with Facebook on external websites (including ecommerce sites), 90% of all purchases are subject to social influence, and by 2015 the social commerce market is expected to be worth $30 billion.  But what is social commerce?  How did Facebook commerce, or "F-Commerce" come to be?  A new infographic from Social Media In [...]

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