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There are just over 300 fewer billionaires in the world this year, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is one of them. According to…
Not too long ago, the most important things discussed on Facebook and Twitter related to people's relationships and what was for lunch. Then we moved into job-loss and non-fatal-plane-crash territory. Now, a couple of stories with links to the criminal justice system have cropped up.
US Representative John Conyers (D-MI) is on the defensive regarding legislation that would prevent the public posting of taxpayer funded scientific research on the Internet. Opponents argue the bill is a step back for science and that the powers that be behind it are shilling for the paper publishing industry.
Last week Facebook announced that it would be rolling out changes to its home page sometime this week. That has now begun. Enthusiasm has been building greatly over the past week. Within 20 minutes of an official Facebook blog post on the launch it had already received 98 comments, most of which were pretty positive.
A Forrester report released yesterday kicked off once again the debate over paying bloggers to write about products and companies. Blogging purists, new media marketing experts, and Google’s Matt Cutts have all weighed in, indicating this is hardly a debate that will soon be put to rest.
Google has announced the launch of "Interest-based" advertising as a beta test for the company's partner sites and on YouTube. In other words, Google will be serving ads based on sites users visit.
