Do you hear that buzz?! It’s not a bird…no! It’s not a plane, no, NO, it’s GOOGLE!!!!  That’s right Google does it again, this time with their latest product launch Google Buzz. Giving us all yet ANOTHER way to share with our networks online, this tool is rumored to potentially threaten Facebook and Twitter as [...]

”Stop! Collaborate and LISTEN!” Let’s apply Vanilla Ice’s song lyric to social media. Your customers are talking, are you listening? Whether it be around your product specifically, your competitor, or the industry as a whole, people are engaging in conversations online through blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, forums, product reviews, etc. as an outlet to recommend, [...]

Cuddled up in my Snuggie™ blanket over the weekend, I flipped the pages of my February 2010 issue of Elle Magazine and came across a survey about iPhone users that consumer electronics specialists, Retrevo, conducted called the Gadgetology report.  This online survey featured in the Modern Love section of the magazine, consisted of 445 iPhone [...]

Last Tuesday, January 12th the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake hit Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.  Once I had heard the news of the massive destruction, I immediately hopped onto my Twitter account @carolynruiz and searched for Haiti using Twitter Search .  I did this because I wanted to see the real-time news transpiring and how I could contribute to [...]

As Craig mentioned in our January 2009 issue of The Source , one of the latest trends on the rise is the Micro-Blogging platform called Twitter .  Micro-Blogging is a much more real-time way to convey to your “followers” what you may be doing at a given moment.  This is much like setting your current [...]

As an avid reader, my shelves are full of books, most of them read, some unread. Many regular staples in the print industry—magazines, newspapers—have gone online with positive results. The newest thing to hit plain old paperback books is the e-book reader. I remember reading about these devices a few years back, and they continue [...]

I can still remember how compelled I was when I first came across podcasts three years ago.  Within seconds of my discovery, I began listening to and watching podcasts through iTunes, downloading one after another, like a kid in a candy store - I was in heaven!  I was amazed at the variety of topics, [...]

Microsoft primarily blames the increasing sales of netbooks for their OEM revenue drop today in their SEC 10-Q filing. It’s a fact that global computer sales are down for the fourth quarter but netbooks have gained a significant market share and its sales growth is better than traditional notebooks. And in light of the current [...]

Internet traffic spiked during the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States as people watched the historic event online in a variety of ways such as viewing live streaming videos, looking at photos on interactive maps or reading twitter feeds. Akamai, the leader in online content delivery, reported record traffic as it peaked [...]

Research has shown that gaming has increased in popularity in recent years, especially with this down economy. I received a Nintendo Wii for Christmas last year, and I absolutely love it. I must admit I am a little biased. I have always preferred Nintendo over other gaming consoles, mostly for ease of use and game [...]