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Who does the gold medal go to in social media Olympics coverage? Why is Apple suing every Android maker in sight? What is the underground Twitterverse? After the jump you'll find more of this week's top news stories on some of the key topics that are shaping the Web - Location, App Stores and Real-Time Web - plus highlights from some of our six channels. Read on for more. Yesterday we looked at how online media is covering the London 2012 Olympics. We gave our virtual gold medal to the New York Times, for its sleek design and muscular content. Today we review the major social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. To continue the Olympics theme, we award each of the three a different colored medal. Which one gets the gold? More The eyes of the technology world are focused on the epic patent struggle between Apple and Samsung - the latest iteration of Apple’s frantic legal battle against everything Android. More How bad is the underground Twitter economy? According to secu...

Even as more and more companies embace social media for internal and external communication, only a few are actively managing the risk that social media entails. These companies are strolling unprotected through a minefield that might one day destroy a cherished brand or lead angry regulators to their doorstep. According to survey results from the Altimeter Group, nearly “two-thirds of companies surveyed say that social media is a significant or critical risk to their brand reputation.” But 60% of those companies deliver social media training and expectations to their employees only once - upon their hiring - or don’t bother to train their employees about social media at all. That’s a pretty big group, especially since other reports peg the proportion of U.S. companies using some sort of social media at 80%. “Companies are often aware of the risks at some level, but instead of taking specific concrete actions, they cross their fingers and hope that they dodge the bullet,” wrote Alan W...

Editor's note : Guest commentator Michael Tchong is the founder of Social Revolution. How often have you thought our country needs to change? That something is fundamentally and systemically wrong that needs fixing? And that things could be fixed if we leveraged social media to find the best ideas to agree on? In the world of technology, we’re used to upheaval. In fact, we rely on it to drive innovation and improvements. So why can’t we use technology to solve some of the underlying problems we all agree need to change? Technology innovations have often been able to fill gaps - even leapfrog them in many cases - between our “old world" habits and the demands of the "new world.” Apple is a classic example of what I’m talking about. We used to live in a world where music lived on compact discs. Then came MP3 files, which made music infinitely more accessible - too accessible some might say. Michael Tchong But it took Apple to make buying music and transferring it to a po...

Yesterday we looked at how online media is covering the London 2012 Olympics. We gave our virtual gold medal to the New York Times, for its sleek design and muscular content. Today we review the major social media sites: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. To continue the Olympics theme, we award each of the three a different colored medal. Which one gets the gold? Read on to find out... This may surprise you. After all, most of the media coverage about Twitter in regard to the Olympics has been negative. The company's partnership with the much maligned NBC didn't help, but it was the banning of a reporter that really got Twitter in hot water. And it wouldn't be a major sports event without at least one athlete posting an offensive tweet. Nevertheless, Twitter came into its own over the course of the London Games as a way for athletes and fans alike to express themselves. The Twitter activity by and about Usain Bolt is a great example. The most popular athlete of this Olympic...

Jul 30, 2012 12:00 PM   We've all gotten ourselves so immersed in using an online service and social network, that we continued to use it even when we knew it was on the way out (stop pretending like you weren't checking your Myspace last year). Digg, post-acquisition, has now fallen into this group. When you know a social network you use is likely on the way down, how long do you hold on to it before letting it go? A month? Six months? A year? View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

Ingrid is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining February 2012, based out of London. She comes from paidContent.org, where she was a staff writer, and has in the past also written freelance regularly for other publications such as the Financial Times. Ingrid covers mobile, digital media, advertising and the spaces where these intersect. When it comes to work, she feels most... ? Learn More For those of you who get frustrated with the idea that in many social networks, you are not just a user but also a product, prepare to grit your teeth a bit more: a new forecast out from Gartner notes that advertising will remain the main way that social media services make money. The analysts predict that this year social media revenue will generate $16.9 billion in revenues, with more than half of that, $8.8 billion, to come from advertising. The estimates are coming out on the same day that social gaming giant Zynga is reporting earnings, and days before Facebook posts its results. That $16.9 billio...

Free speech activists in Afghanistan launched Twitter and Facebook campaigns on Sunday to fight government media curbs as well as to dispel incorrect information being perpetuated by clashing NATO and Taliban claims. Both NATO and the Taliban have used social media in the past to perpetuate arguments and campaign for individual causes. And Afghani journalists have been pushed against a wall with the government’s new, strict press freedom laws, leaving the public confused about the current state of affairs. Media advocacy groups like Nai have decided to fight back, encouraging the use of social media to provide the public with a more reliable and a somewhat more accessible form of information. In the past, social media has been used to fight conditions like limited women’s rights — a topic the country’s mainstream media can’t easily cover without widespread backlash. “Social media is a free tool to use to transfer information without the influences of the government, warlords, or Talib...

Facebook engineer Carlos Bueno posted a note to the official Facebook Engineering page detailing exactly how one should prep for an interview there. He admits that an interview for a technical job is difficult for both the interviewer and candidate.  Skills on your resume are fair game. If you say you're an "expert in X," Facebook will try to schedule you with a proven expert in that subject, so be prepared. If you are not, leave it off your resume. The interviewers would rather have a short list of the things a candidate is awesome at than pages of everything you've ever done. Keep reading for an inside look at what Facebook technical interviewers are looking for. Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Kevin Smith on Twitter. x To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website or blog. View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made a...