This is that time of year when we begin to stress out about getting our holiday shopping done. Because our family, friends, coworkers, extended family, and bosses all have different preferences and tastes, and it always takes a while to find that perfect gift for each one.
Thankfully, the age of technology, when much of our [...]

Did you camp out at the doors of your local Toys R Us this Black Friday? Or drank 10 5-hour energy drinks to surf the Internet non-stop for 24 hours this Cyber Monday? Well, your efforts paid off – at least for those in retail industry – many of the stores reported record profits from [...]

Millions of people right now are off shopping somewhere on Black Friday, spraying people with pepper spray and getting super awesome deals. Cyber Monday will continue the shopping tradition, bringing the craziest deals online.
Last year, another Holiday Shopping tradition was established. Sponsored by American Express, Small Business Saturday encourages shoppers to “Shop Small,” buy from [...]

After the f8 conference, Facebook decided to become even more social, letting us broadcast to our friends not only what we were doing, how we felt and where we were, but also what we were listening to. Integration with social music services (apparently not social enough already) like Rdio and Spotify let Facebook users see [...]

Who doesn’t like rating things? A new iPhone app, called Oink, gives us the opportunity to rank anything, from a cup of coffee to a piece of decor in someone’s house.
Oink is the first product of Milk, an application development company founded by Kevin Rose (the co-founder of Digg).
In the YouTube video where he introduced [...]

Another social network has appeared on the horizon. This one claims to be anti-Facebook in every way you can think. Or rather, UNthink.
The concept of Unthink, geared towards providing a completely advertising-free social environment where users will control their own privacy, got attention of many tech reviewers, including TechCrunch (which sent the traffic over the [...]

A few days ago, many people woke up to find a dramatic decrease in their Klout score.
Apparently, Klout decided that their scoring model wasn’t accurate enough (yes, because I am definitely not an influencer in beer).

Ironically, in Klout’s corporate blog post, Ash Rust, Klout’s director of ranking, assured us that “a majority of users will [...]

Emergence and collision of social, local and mobile media is a trend that marketers have been talking about for a while.
Internet and smartphones make consumers more and more powerful each day. For your business, it could be either a good or a bad thing – depends on how you approach it.
On one hand, it is [...]

Getting a Facebook and a Twitter account for your business is the first step of a social media marketing strategy. But it doesn’t end there. The next step is getting your customers to actually like and follow your brand in the digital space.
A recent study showed that of all the Twitter users who follow a [...]

Last week, after Apple announced its new iPhone 4S, 1 million people already pre-ordered the gadget.
Even though aesthetically iPhone 4S did not bring anything new since the release of the last model, the “insides” of the new device pleasantly surprised many reviewers .
One feature that seems to get the most recognition is Siri, iPhone’s virtual [...]