How did you watch the Oscars last night? Did you turn on your TV and ignore everything else, or were you continually glancing at Twitter and Facebook to see how your friends were reacting to the awards?
Though traffic wasn’t quite up to the fail-whale-inducing levels of the Super Bowl, Twitter was afire last night with [...]

Like skydiving or heroin, the webcam phenom Chatroulette is something I’d rather listen to folks talk about than actually try myself. That’s my attitude now, anyways. And it’s still the same even after watching this smart, funny and profound video by the very talented Casey Neistat. But what a great piece of piece of storytelling: [...]

Topeka made a media splash earlier this week when it officially changed its name to “Google, Kansas” in a bid to become a test city for Google’s experimental fiber-optic broadband network.
Other small, broadband-hungry cities around the country have answered the call, too, including Greensboro, North Carolina, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, to [...]

“Desperate” and “suck up” are words some national bloggers have used to describe a recent proclamation by the mayor of Topeka, Kansas, to change the town’s name to Google, Kansas, for the month of March. The screenshot below is taken directly from the state capital’s website.
The reason for this civic stunt: Topeka, er “Google,” hopes [...]

A report by the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland shows that American small businesses’ use of social media has doubled in the past year, from 12% to 24%.
According to the report, titled the Small Business Success Index, one in five small businesses are adopting social media into their business [...]

Last week in Kansas City, a tightly knit community of artists, musicians and slightly strange regular folk hit the streets near downtown at dawn and again at dusk to spread Mardi Gras merriment from the Westside to the Jazz District. It’s a decade-plus tradition, and judging by the folks who came out and hit it [...]

The World’s Biggest Corporation and much-vilified Little-Guy Crusher has been pulling out some innovations lately that have been turning the heads of erstwhile detractors.
In “The Great Grocery Smackdown,” the Atlantic Monthly looks at Walmart’s new company-wide policy of stocking fresh, organic produce bought from local farmers.
Will it destroy Whole Foods?
It’ll certainly give the organics leader [...]

Is mobile the future of the social web? A recent study would indicate that it is.
PR firm Ruder Finn’s Mobile Intent Index survey showed that 91% of people use their mobile phones to socialize online, compared with 79% of traditional computer users.
That’s not all. The study also showed that 62% of mobile users manage finances [...]

Hey … psst. Hey, you. Get off Facebook there for a minute and let’s talk about … Facebook.
With over 400 million users, the world’s fourth-largest country is also both the place where people spend most of their time online and do most of their sharing, according to recent studies.
That is huge BROBDIGNAGIAN.
1. Timekiller
A Nielsen study [...]

Benefits of becoming President Obama’s official social networks manager: (1) you’ll have over 3 million followers on Twitter, 7.5 million fans on Facebook and just under 2 million MySpace friends; (2) when people converse with the President, they’ll actually be conversing with you; (3) you can officially call yourself the “Commander-in-Tweet.”
That Barack Obama’s agenda promoters [...]