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Social Media

What Social Media Really Deserves

Here at GNC, we pride ourselves on the quality and integrity of our writing, but for one article only, it's going to go down the pan....literally. Much of the Internet is full of crap and Twitter is responsible for its fair share. Put the two together and you get Shitter, toilet paper printed with a Twitter feed of your choice.

Qubeey

It happens to all of us, we follow so many people and companies on various social media sites that we miss the things we are really interested in. Let’s face it most of us have a handful of people or business that we are truly interested in, our family and close friends, maybe a company we are interested in or

Snoball: Making Giving to Charity Social

We’ve all done it, at the start of the year we say we are going to give more to charity. We all have good intentions, but unfortunately for most of us we often fall short and at the end of the year we are scrambling to make up the difference. Many times we fail miserably. The process starts all over

Roamz Consolidates Social on Your Phone

Roamz is a new app that aims to consolidate all of your different social media feeds, like Facebook, Twitter, 4Square, and others, into one location on your smartphone.  However, Roamz isn't looking at your circle of friends, it's looking at posts from those closest to you geographically.  This gives you a snapshot of what is going on wherever you're at.

Social Media for Children – KidzVuz

KidzVuz is an on-line community for children that lets them review and comment on kids' gear. Andy and Don talk with co-founder Rebecca Levey about the site's features and how they're tailored to children. Children are often left out of the on-line world as the major social networking sites such as Facebook enforce age restrictions on their members, and rightly

Adobe Set to Launch SocialAnalytics October 20th

Social Networks have become big for individuals, but perhaps even bigger for businesses.  Almost every company today has a presence on Facebook and Twitter, and if they don't then they are looking at how to create one.  Many of those companies are also left wondering what all of it really means and what impact it's having for them.  Web sites

Democracy, Security and Social Media

In the last six months we have cheered the use of Twitter and Facebook during the Egyptian revolution. How they were both used to get and spread information about what was happening and where, allowing the opposition to organize. When the Egyptian government tried to shut them down, the western press and government accused it of denying the Egyptians their