Boston Bruins Get More Social With Digital Entertainment Network

The Boston Bruins are more than just 44-28-3 and 1st in the NHL Northeast.  They’re also a very social hockey franchise. According to Boston.com, the  Boston Bruins are, “launching an ambitious effort Monday to bundle all of their digital, mobile, and social online assets under one umbrella brand, so the team and its fans will [...]

Pinterest Prank Getting People in Trouble with the Law

Experts are always talking about how social networks have transformed the way we communicate, thereby altering the human experience, or some such nonsense. But the reality is that, when you really get down to it, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumlr, or whatever—they’re all just sophisticated ways for people to kill time when they’re bored. Of course, [...]

Teen Tweets Prom Invite to Porn Star...and She Says Yes

What’s a boy to do when all the girls at his school already have dates to the prom? For Minnesota high school senior Michael Stone, 18, the answer was obvious: get on Twitter and ask every porn star he could think of to be his date. After only 600 tweets, Stone had found his girl. [...]

Twitter Turns Six Years Old

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the very first tweet. On March 21, 2006, at 3:50PM, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced “Just setting up my twttr” over the social network that no one else was even using yet. And while it wasn’t exactly “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you”—the very first words [...]

Pinterst Users Don't Like Change

It looks like Pinterest is taking a page out of Facebook’s playbook. According to many Pinterest users, the online pin board fixed something that wasn’t broken, something the social media giant Facebook is known for doing. When tech journalism took their first looks at the redesigns, the feeling was that the changes weren’t anything revolutionary. [...]

Co-Sponsor A Bill In Congress With A Facebook App

Facebook isn’t just for avoiding old classmates from high school that you were never friends with to begin with or stalking former flames. Now you can co-sponsor a Congressional bill with just one click one of a mouse. The app is called Citizen Cosponsor and it comes to us via House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. [...]

Twitter Putting More Ads In Your Stream

It’s been a busy month for the social media company Twitter. First they bought the blogging platform Posterous, today the company celebrated it’s six year anniversary and now they announced that they’re extending their advertising reach. You may have already seen the new ads, but if you haven’t you probably will see it soon. Whether [...]

Law In The Works To Ban Employers From Asking For Your Facebook Log-in

Would you give a perspective employer your Facebook username and password? It was no secret that many companies were running virtual background checks of perspective employees’ social media accounts, but now some firms are taking it a step further. You can set the privacy levels to the max on your social media accounts, but it [...]

Facebook Looks To Copy Apple To Increase Profits

As they get ready for their IPO, the social media giant Facebook is copying the technology leader Apple, hoping to maximize their profits. But don’t worry, Facebook isn’t trying to create next generation of smart phones or tablets, instead their copying Apple’s business style when it comes to research and development. Apple creates the technology, [...]

There's No One Device For Social Media News

Even though more and more younger adults are getting their news from social media sources like Facebook and Twitter, there is no one device that users turn to for their news. According to the State Of The Media via Pew Research Center, there’s no one piece of hardware that we turn to for our social [...]

Social Media Sites Are Driving Traffic, But Not Spreading News

“If searching for news was the most important development of the last decade, sharing news may be among the most important of the next,” A study from Navigating News Online said. Facebook and Twitter are dominating the intersection of social media and news. But what they’re not doing is connecting the mass public to the [...]

Pinterst Survives Attack From Spammers

We all knew that it was going to happen eventually, no social network is safe from the spammers and the guys wearing the black hats. This time it was Pinterest that was under attack from it the spammers and it’s users. It all happened Saturday evening when many people were dressed in green and out [...]

Girls Can Be Internet Sex Predators, Too

Usually when you hear about internet sex predators luring children into illicit liasons, you assume we’re talking about a gross middle-aged white dude pretending to be a teenage girl so he can trick some poor, horny teenage boy into talking dirty to him. But it turns out that gross middle-aged white dudes don’t have a [...]

Yahoo Is Taking Facebook Court

Yahoo, yeah that portal that was popular in the 90′s is allegedly hoping to get in on Facebook’s IPO later this year and they’re hoping to do it by suing them. It’s reminiscent of similar action they took against Google before their IPO back in 2004, which led to Yahoo taking home a chunk of their [...]

Fighting Crime In The Age Of Social Media: Police And Criminals Turning To Facebook

It turns out that there is pretty much no aspect of modern life that cannot be conducted on Facebook. Even modern criminal life. More and more, criminals are actually being so stupid as to leave clues about their crimes on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. And, more and more, cops are learning how [...]