But Why Does Apple Wants To Take On The Role Of Content Gatekeeper?
Following the recent post we had about Apple taking down popular games from its App store, the latest buzz in on Apple denying a comic book reader entrance to its iPhone app store because the primary comic book being offered was too violent. This ha...

Jaiku is Back, Not in Google Apps Engine
Jaiku has found its way back online, now hosted at the Google datacenters, but not within the Google Apps Engine as was rumored. From the official blog post:We ve now moved Jaiku to a Google data center. This is something that we d planned to do ...

Mashing Forrester and Jupiter Social Technologies Research teams
Above Photo: The combined Forrester and Jupiter Social Marketing and Social Computing Research teams (missing: Christine Overby, Nate Elliott, Tom Grant, Laura Ramos, Steven Noble, Rebecca Jennings, Lisa Bradner, and Tom Cummings. Photo taken by Cor...

FIR Interview: Maggie Fox and Geoff Livingston, Part 2
Maggie Fox and Geoff Livingston announced on August 27 that the previously-announced acquisition of Livingston Communications by The Social Media Group will not be moving forward. In this brief interview, they address the reasons for calling off the ...

UK Band Admits It s Utterly Dependent On Piracy
At some point, it won t make sense to post these sorts of examples any more because it will just be common sense that bands can and do benefit from so-called piracy, but every time we post one of these stories, we get people complaining that this c...

Back to School Marketing s a Journey vs. a Destination Social Media is Organic Four Links 08.27.08
1) Pros, Profs, Students Join PR OpenMic PR Open MicWith more than 2,000 members, PR Open Mic is focused on preparing the next generation of PR practitioners by enabling interaction with people from around the world in this community network...