2011: The Year of Black Digital Domination
Was 2011 the year of Black digital domination? From “Black Twitter” to black tech entrepreneurship, 2011 was the year that black influence on all things digital blew into the mainstream. Digital events like the fight to prevent Troy Davis’ execution and CNN’sBlack in America also confirmed that the black “digital divide” could no longer be ignored. President Barack [...]
Read MoreWhat Made Social Media News in 2011 – #infographic
In 2011 social media was main stream and played a major role not only for marketing and brands but in everything from the royal wedding to Osama Bin Laden death announcement to OccupyWallStreet. To sum up 2011 in social media flowtown shares the what mattered in 2011 for social media infographic. Flowtown – Social Media [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Unveils New Social Network So.cl
Microsoft is joining the increasingly crowded social media market, recently going public with So.cl. Not to worry — this is not Microsoft’s attempt to take on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. So what exactly is So.cl, pronounced social? In short, it’s a social network geared at helping students interested in social media. Microsoft describes it as “a research experiment [...]
Read MoreHow Turntable.fm Replicates Music Scenes Online
There are two things that avid music listeners appreciate: variety and sharing. On the internet, listening to music has become a more social experience with sites like Last.fm, Spotify, and even YouTube engaging users in recommending music and commenting on it. And Pandora provides variety, auto-generating playlists based on listener preferences. Each of these sites [...]
Read MoreMap the History of Rappers Like Tupac Using Foursquare
Wouldn’t it be cool to track the history of your favorite rap artist using a location-based application like Foursquare? Well thanks to a public relations manager, Paul Rayment you can. Rayment is mapping the history of famous rappers on Foursquare, adding note-worthy locations in the buildup to their careers. He has mapped Tupac’s roots and [...]
Read MoreRihanna Dominated Facebook in 2011
According to Facebook’s 2011 Memology report , Rihanna took over the social network this year, not literally. But she did come in No. 1 under the music category for most popular page, meaning she was “liked” the most out of all other artist pages. In addition, her song “We Found Love” off her latest Talk that Talk album, was [...]
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