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Four out of five Americans distrust mainstream social media sites like Facebook

Americans are so disillusioned by social media, that many are turning to forums for trustworthy information.

January 14, 2019 by Eileen Brown

Facebook is updating Workplace to move it beyond collaboration

At F8, Facebook is rolling out a series of integrations to the enterprise version of the Facebook platform, so people can use it to check pay slips, monitor marketing campaigns and more.

May 1, 2018 by Stephanie Condon

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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on any given topic.

October 21, 2009

Press "Upload" on that Video: "Point Is Not To Bust People,'' Says NBC

The point is to actually make fair use  -- fair and creative use -- use of someone's professionally produced content, if you're going to post a video online.

November 12, 2008 by Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

McCain to YouTube: Respect fair use (at least for pols)

YouTube's speedy response to DMCA take-down notices has been the subject of lawsuits – notably Stephanie Lenz, who with the EFF sued when YouTube deleted her video of her kid rockin' out to a Prince song.Now John McCain has a problem with YouTube take-downs.

October 14, 2008 by Richard Koman

Yahoo: Open is not just 'Flavor of the Month.'

It's Open Hack Day at Yahoo and the developers pulling an all-nighter at the company's Sunnyvale headquarters tonight will have the opportunity to dig into some of the most popular destinations on the Web, including Yahoo Mail. The company this week laid out its strategy for opening its suite of online services to third-party developers, highlighting the flexibility that add-on applications will give the 300 million users who visit Yahoo's Front Page monthly.

September 12, 2008 by Sam Diaz

The Dark Side Of Web 2.0 And Technology Populism

So before my flight West today, I picked up the recent Jeff Howe book Crowdsourcing. I was looking for a little inspiration for a speech I'm giving at Forrester's Business & Technology Leadership Forum on a trend we call "Technology Populism.

September 11, 2008 by Matthew Brown

Skype launches new beta for feature phones, works on S60 and Windows Mobile too

Skype announced a beta version of its client for Java-enabled mobile phones with the current list of compatible devices from Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung. The intent of this new mobile client is to expand Skype to the mass market feature phone, but being the mobile geek that I am I decided to try it out on some other devices and was fairly pleased with the results.

April 25, 2008 by Matthew Miller

ABC-Facebook deal: Another election-time marketing deal

ABC News is teaming up with Facebook to bring some social networking into campaign coverage, The Times reports. [The partnership] allows Facebook members to electronically follow ABC reporters, view reports and video and participate in polls and debates, all within a new “U.

November 26, 2007 by Richard Koman

Why a gPhone (Google Phone) is a lovely... no, an awful.. no, a lovely idea

At last count, "consumers" was the No. 1 answer to Dana Blankenhorn's survey question asking who a Google Phone (gPhone) will help the most.

October 16, 2007 by David Berlind