A discussion within the SocialTimes team stemming from recent news that Buddhist religious leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, was tweeting on Twitter led to the question of whether the microblogging s...

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Spiritual Enlightenment: How To Host Religious Services Through Twitter

After linking Madonna's fundraising for favelas in Rio to the Kaballah Centre and its dodgy accounting practices investigative bloggers at Folha Online put Zynga's feet to the fire, forcing the develo...

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Facebook game maker Zynga admits keeeping 50% of Haiti relief donations

An Online Survey from www.fabulis.com During the last week of February, 2010, fabulis sent out a survey to gay men regarding their online behaviors and attitudes.  Remarkably, more than 1400 peopl...

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The Online Gay Male in 2010- a Fabulis survey

In the first test of how much Facebook members should trust online gaming operators like Zynga with handling funds ostensibly destined for charitable causes, Brazil's largest online newspaper has co...

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Zynga denies mishandling FarmVille Haiti funds

Hey all, as checking my Google buzz this morning, and found a cool link from Thomas Morffew for a site created by Ren Media. The article lists ten top reasons to use China social media, vs. Wester...

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Top 10 reasons to use Chinese Social Media.

I was so excited to see Beth Harte's post about Nestle's "special offer" to join their digital think tank because it confirmed that I'm not crazy thinking mom bloggers are getting shafted. For a while...

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Do Big Brands Exploit Mommy Bloggers Who Work for "Prizes and Rewards"?

December 2009, I looked back through the analytics of several busy content sites I help manage and saw a serious traffic drop-off. It’s no fun being the bearer of bad news and the news was pretty ba...

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Seasonal Web Traffic: The Proverbial Coal in Your Stocking

Technology changed, society change and politics went on as usual. In essence we are falling behind our social development. Related posts: Is Social Media Shifting?Each of the ten points above reflect ...

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America Is Behind Social Development

A great article by James Areddy in The Wall Street Journal describes how the China hacker community is very different from the Hollywood stereotypes of loner American geeks or steely Russian mobster...

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James Areddy: China’s Unique Hacker Culture

My Remarks February 19, 2010I want thank the handful of reporters who stupidly happily agreed to join me in listen-mode only today at my former [unnamed] sponsor's tournament. I also want to thank my ...

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What Can I Say?

If you have an interest in how the mainstream media is evolving and how it hopes to remain relevant to consumers, as I do, there is some new reporting and metrics on what 30 publishers in the USA...

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How 30 publishers are charging for online content

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