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Morgan Freeman has clearly seen the funny side of recent claims that he nodded off during an interview on live TV. The 75-year-old actor made headlines around the world after apparently taking a snooze on Seattle channel KCPQ while he and Michael Caine were promoting their new movie Now You See Me. However he has […]

After being on the receiving end of more Champions League final heartbreak at the hands of a Premier League team, you would think Bayern Munich fans would want nothing to do with Chelsea ahead of Saturday’s Wembley final with Borussia Dortmund. But that appears not to be the case after it emerged the German club’s supporters head to Wembley having developed something of an obsession with the Blues.

One million people have ‘liked’ a Facebook page set up in honour of a suspected soldier hacked to death in Woolwich, south-east London,

A civil servant at the DVLA was fired after being caught using Facebook on his mobile phone during office hours, it has

A police Facebook page that brands criminals ‘numpties’ and says thing like the ‘kettle’s on for another Billy Burglar’ is winning support from the online community. Tandridge Beat, run by Surrey Police, had 1,617 ‘likes’ by this afternoon. The official Surrey Police Facebook page for Tandridge Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team is there to give news […]

Looking good online is more than
just knowing your angles. Edson Tandoc and his colleagues at the
Missouri School of Journalism led a study on attractiveness in
Facebook profiles and found that what a person included in a
profile photo (besides themselves) influenced strangers’ opinions
of that person.

By: Victoria Turk, Edited by: Kadhim

Imagine that you’re on the bus going to work. As you pass a particular building, your phone asks you if you’d like to hear a radio story about an event that happened there.
Then you get a text on your phone from a different station asking you to write back if you’re stuck in traffic. The station uses the information to create a real-time traffic map on its website.
Then a Twitter message asks, since it’s the 8th day of the month, for you to vote on which of three composers’ 8th symphonies you’d like to hear at lunchtime on the local classical music station.
This is the future of radio.
I sit on the Community Advisory Board of New York Public Radio, and we just held an event about what’s in store for the medium of

Women stand at the center of every type of dramatic change occurring in the world today: whether it’s coordinating and offering relief to earthquake victims in Japan and Haiti, consolidating democracy in Egypt or running Facebook. In 2009, President Obama appointed the first-ever ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues, Melanne Verveer. In this historic role, Ambassador Verveer is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s go-to person, coordinating foreign policy issues and activities relating to the political, economic and social advancement of women around the world.
Ambassador Verveer is a force of nature in her own right. When I met her between sessions at the recent Women in the World Summit in New York City, she was swapping stories with a young American writer and a doctor (and grandmother) from

Divorce used to be a lot easier. Oh, not because of changes in divorce laws or family courts, but because the worst that could happen is that you’d cause a scandal in your neighborhood. Outside of maybe your mom, your close friends and your shrink, few knew all your dirty details.
Only the rich and famous had their breakup dramas exposed on the front page or turned into best-sellers, like Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, a fictionalized account of how her husband, Watergate legend Carl Bernstein, dumped

Last Sunday, armed with nothing more than a webcam, a pushup bra, and two minutes fifty-two seconds of too much free time, UCLA student Alexandra Wallace committed professional suicide. She went on YouTube and posted a racist video attacking the “hordes of Asian people” in the library who bother her by using their cellphones to check on family members impacted by “the tsunami thing” while she’s trying to study.
She quickly took down the video, but not before it had been reposted by others and gone viral. By now, it’s been seen by millions. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block condemned her statements in his own

The landscape of the music industry has changed dramatically over the last decade, but one thing has remained constant — music is better when shared with friends.
The musicians and organizations who harness this concept and take it online will be the most successful as we reach this next important inflection point for the industry. The music and technology industries need to begin to speak the same language.
Social first.
Similar to games, shopping and travel planning, music is inherently social. Every experience that happens with friends in the offline world should be facilitated online by integrating with the social graph to make it easy for people to share the experience with

March 2011 will always mark a powerful event in our lives. Japan experienced an unprecedented triple disaster, the uber-powerful 9.0 magnitude earthquake, then the historic sized tsunami, then the still ongoing nuclear disaster, with a near miss on that one looking more and more likely.
But we also saw the growing up of the social media around government 2.0, emergencies, and crisis. Look backward two years — Chile, Haiti, Argentina, New Zealand — each of these natural disasters were powerful, destructive and

They called it the Snowpocalypse. When the East Coast was slammed by a massive storm this past winter, Newark Mayor Cory Booker hit the streets, coming to the aid of stranded residents and literally shoveling out a transit bus. But tales of his derring-do weren’t just transmitted by the media or word of mouth. The tech-savvy mayor also blasted out news of his exploits and engaged directly with constituents via Twitter, earning widespread

Conventional wisdom says that great companies are built by business leaders with the greatest vision. However, the truth is that groundbreaking businesses tend to come from entrepreneurs who were smart enough to out-execute everyone else in their space. That means getting products out there and growing a loyal customer base rather than trying to engineer a product to its supposed perfection.
Microsoft is a great example of company that has succeeded by out-executing its competitors. They’ve rarely been first to market with any of their products, but they’ve successfully brought them to market, figured out how to improve them, and reintroduced them again and

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times. What are they, how do they differ and what can a startup do to take advantage of them?
First, to understand where we’re going, it’s important to know where we’ve

Sitting at my desk, listening to a stream of NPR, I consider the power of technology and how it has the ability to “share,” to give and take, and open eyes and minds, and allow the exchange of thoughts and opinions amongst millions of people. But the reality of technology and how it affects the world lies in the willingness of users to employ and leverage technology in the evolution and change of society.
Just recently, I had written about “disconnecting” from the internet. I deactivated my Facebook account, as well as my Twitter and Yelp accounts. I have even disconnected my HTC Droid smartphone, in exchange for a 15+ year old Samsung flip

Last Friday when you first learned about the catastrophic tsunami that washed away entire Japanese communities, I bet the morning conversation around your breakfast table or office water cooler was not “Hey Susie, did you hear that JCPenney is running a 20 percent off sale on shoes?” Or, “Mike, how about Groupon’s movie deal for Battle: Los Angeles?” Yet on Twitter and Facebook — the global switchboards where hundreds of millions of people were engaged in high-velocity conversations about the disaster in Japan — corporate America could not put down the sales sheet.
Like you, I follow dozens of my favorite people and companies on Twitter and Facebook. But reading urgent calls for disaster relief right alongside updates from companies pushing their products precisely during the boiling point of a global calamity left me, well, dumbfounded. On Friday, did corporate America flunk the main lesson of Social Media 101: Be human?
Not one tweet or Facebook status update from any of my favorite companies signaled that they were getting behind (if not financially or strategically, then at least empathetically) our friends in

A Conversation with Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda
Mike Ragogna: So, Linkin Park goes to the United Nations.
Mike Shinoda: We were on tour in the US as a part of our world tour behind our record A Thousand Suns, and we got an email from the UN. They were asking if we wanted to do a meeting with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and some members of the UN Foundation to discuss Haiti. We were thrilled about this opportunity because we’ve had this ongoing effort to benefit the folks effected by the earthquake in Haiti. Our effort is called Download To

A revolution in Egypt: 18 days of tumultuous freedom fighting and a dictator is shamefully evicted. Seems straightforward, doesn’t it? It’s not. Egyptians have been working toward this outcome for years, yet the manner in which they achieved their revolution is clear-cut. Risking everything, far too often by dying, Egyptians pushed against the regime to gain the freedom to define democracy for

Here are seven steps to developing a digital marketing blueprint. Many people skip the first four, but these first few steps are the crucial difference between success and failure. I have also uploaded slide presentations to help you along.
Assess Your Situation — This first step is perhaps the most

In my last post about the Startup Visa, I was very critical of the Kerry-Lugar legislation. That’s because it required immigrant entrepreneurs to raise at least $250,000 in financing for their startups, of which $100,000 had to come from American VCs or Super Angels. Few startups raise this kind of seed money — even in Silicon Valley. I couldn’t foresee this bill generating more than a few dozen

Within the past six weeks, major events have firmly established social media as the #Winning communication tool of our time… and naysayers need not apply. That real-time social media provides a “Now Lens” for viewing the world when and where events unfold is quickly becoming undeniable. Finally, the digital fire hose of people’s opinions, dreams, hopes and anxieties, are being unleashed and shared worldwide, anytime,

You’re an expert chef with a beautiful restaurant, friendly staff and great food. In the past, you’ve successfully managed your customer flow through traditional advertising in local newspapers and you sponsor the local little league. Business is great, but a similar restaurant just opened up a few blocks away, and it’s generating lots of buzz. The restaurant is using social media to its advantage, growing its customer base at an accelerated pace, and you’re starting to lose market

Think about it — the earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear disasters in Japan; the earthquakes in New Zealand, Chile and Haiti; revolutions and protests in Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Yemen, and Oman; slaughter in the Ivory Coast by a brutal dictator; continued fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. And in the U.S., the largest demonstration ever over worker rights in Wisconsin, flooding in Kentucky, rising oil prices, and tsunami damage in California.
It’s hard not to conclude that this is an impossibly difficult time for us and for the rest of the world. Is the U.S. responding appropriately you might ask? Is the president “fiddling” while the world seems to explode with danger and disaster? What would we want the president to do and say that would make us feel less unsettled and helpless? There are two distinct views on the administration’s