Several people have complained to me that they can’t find the search function in the new design layout and they’re having difficulty figuring out how to find people to follow on Twitter.  The solution is to use the directories that are spinging up – TwitDir or Twitterholic. According to several blog posts conparing the two services, TwitDir [...]

Image by Striatic When blogs first arrived on the scene a few years back, who’d have thought they’d become a mainstream source of information that permeated US society across all age groups? According to MarketTools blogs, communities and social networks have indeed become a part of life for most Americans, with nearly 70% visiting these sites and [...]

Google breaks into top ten, P&G moving up The 2008 Best Global Brands list from Interbrand is out. The were few changes in the top ten -  Coke is still at #1, IBM and Microsoft swapped places at 2 and 3 and the most notable change -  Google jumped from #20 last year to #10 bumping Mercedes to [...]

A new study out from Phocus Wright addresses some of the myths about online travel behavior:   Less people are buying travel online:  Not so, says the study. In fact the number is on the rise. In 2007, approximately 70% of online travelers (that is, adults who have taken a commercial air trip and stayed at a hotel for [...]

    Over the last decade searches for porn have dropped from 20 percent to 10 percent and the hottest searches are now for social networking sites.  Now there’s a great statistic.  It’s from Bill Tancer’s book “Click: What Millions of People are Doing Online and Why It Matters.” “As social networking traffic has increased, [...]

Gen X and Gen Y focus on different activities online Image: Striatic Gen X is the generation born between 1965 and 1980 (depending on your source) Generation Y moms were born between1982 (Millenials) and 1994. Both Generation X and Generation Y moms view the internet as a must-have tool for finding child-rearing information, but there is [...]

What started as a conversation on Jonathan Schwartz’ blog at Sun Micro systems has been accepted by the SEC. ON July 30th the SEC voted that a website or a corporate blog is a valid place to post corporate news. There are new guidelines that cover how a public company can use a Web site and/or corporate blog to [...]

Last night LA Start up Yammer took top honors at TechCrunch50.  What is Yammer?  It’s a Twitter-like application for businesses. Yammer aims to make companies more productive by making it easier for employees to communicate with one another. Unlike email which goes betweeno nly a few specified peole, on Yammer you can build a company network [...]

It seems you really are no-one if you’re not on Twitter!  CNN has been incorporating ‘tweets’ in their reports upped its use of Twitter content during the coverage of Hurricane Gustav. A tweet from anchor Rich Sanchez, a faithful Twitter user,  revealed CNN will debut a new Twitter show called “Rick Sanchez Direct,” says WebProNews.  The new show aired [...]

If you are not a fan of Social Media Today this is a good time to discover this blog. A slew of the top bloggers in the field of PR and social media add content there, so you get to find the best of the best in one place.  And today is their first birthday.