It’s been nearly 40 years since the term electronic mail (email) has been introduced, and close to 30 years since the word “Internet” was first used in 1982. Now, since the birth of the cell phone, the expansion of ecommerce, and the era of Facebook, a new set of terms have been established. Check out [...]

An old fashioned brawl on the schoolyard lawn used to be the extent of bullying. Nowadays however, bullying amongst kids, teens and young adults is happening more frequently online. The new aged term, Cyber-bullying, has been floating around the Internet more so as of late. Everyone from Dr. Phil to the complimentary duo, Facebook and [...]

Whether you followed the trial or not, it’s probable you know exactly who Casey Anthony is. The Casey Anthony trail has no doubt created major heat and uproar amongst the public, as proof shown through the popular social media platform, Facebook. Since the trial began, there have been thousands of Casey Anthony Facebook Fan Pages [...]

Roughly 500,000 motorists drive Interstate 405 through Los Angeles on any given weekend. So when a 10-mile stretch was closed for three days last weekend, many projected there to be catastrophic gridlock on the surface streets of LA. Before the weekend, it was dubbed “Carmageddon” and “Nightmare on the 405” among a host of other [...]

In this economy, people do anything for money. It’s desperate times, calling for desperate measures. But sometimes, desperation can take you somewhere you never thought you’d go. Next thing you know, you’re in some serious legal trouble. Nobody knows this better than Skylar Roberts, an illegal vendor in Midway, Georgia. That’s public enemy #1 there [...]

Sunday marked a rough ending to a nerve-wracking, edge-of-your-seat Women’s World Cup. I’m not here to breakdown the whole game, because odds are, even if you didn’t see it, you heard about it online. In fact, I don’t even think you had to watch the game to know exactly what was going on. All you needed [...]

There’s a lot of ways to measure your influence online. Number of fans or followers is one way, interaction with those fans (comments, posts, likes etc) is another, but now there’s a new way to measure and display your overall online influence. If you haven’t heard of Klout, it’s basically a measurement of your online [...]

If you’re at all involved in the world of social media (which, by you reading this, I assume you are) then no doubt you’ve heard of or are already on Google+. The webs newest social networking site is one of the fastest-growing ever, having reached 10 million users according to an estimate by Paul Allen. [...]

It’s in our culture that big business dominates, while small businesses remain humble in their mom and pop standings. However, in the world of Facebook, consider the playing field a lot more level. Despite the massive funds and large staffs of big business, small businesses are just as capable, if not more so, to become [...]

An article by Mashable describes the recent drama that’s occurred on Versace’s Facebook Fan Page. If you’re not familiar with the story, basically protestors covered Versace’s Wall with vulgar messages about the designer’s use of sandblasting, a dangerous technique used for creating the look of distressed denim. The process of sandblasting denim has in the [...]

You may not have noticed, but your news feed definitely can’t hold all your friends’ content, that’s why you may have 1023 friends, but your feed only shows posts from the same 30 or 50 friends. It makes sense, your feed would be insane if all your friends’ posts were displayed all the time. Well, [...]

It’s official, Facebook has video chat. As roars of hip, hips and hoorays are heard well across the Facebook community, some businesses on Facebook may be asking, “What does this mean for us?” The truth is, we won’t quit know the answer to this as it’s too early to tell, but there are however a [...]

About a week ago, I read a post on Mashable about how they received an invite to an “awesome” announcement. Within a couple hours, the social media world was buzzing about Facebook’s new video chat product. This morning, Facebook held a press conference at their Palo Alto headquarters and while it’s no surprise that the [...]

Yeah, ShortStack’s got a Foursquare widget. Are you using it? If not, consider these reasons for getting your business active on Foursquare. Different than Facebook’s Check-In Foursquare: most people associate the platform as an equivalent to Facebook’s Check-in. While it is true that Foursquare’s services match Facebook’s Check-in feature, lesser known functionalities set Foursquare apart. [...]