Red Cross Campaign text “HAITI” Aids at Lightning Speed January 12, 2010 marked the largest earthquake recorded in an impoverished Caribbean community near Port Au Prince. This 7.0 earthquake devastated the landscape, killing thousands and leaving several family members in shambles. While politicians around the world scrambled to figure out a viable plan to...

Happy New Year Don’t Tweet, Drink and Drive Tis the season (or day) that most of us go out to celebrate the New Year with friends, family and in many cases a few drinks. Police, of course, have known this for ages and set up checkpoints to find those who decide to put their (and other people) lives in danger. According to research these...

QuickByte: Ohio DOT Embraces Twitter The Ohio Department of Transportation decided to take another precaution this winter in hopes of dwindling down the 44,000 plus accidents it suffered last year – as a result of serve winter weather conditions. The DOT will now offer winter advisory, Twitter updates for the highways in Cincinnati,...

Quick Byte: New News for iPhone and Android users Google announced yesterday that is has overhauled the news to cater to iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. With this new overhaul comes a user interface that displays more images, news and their sources. Google also promises “you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find...

Pandora,Twitter, Facebook What’s the Connection? It’s now official users of the popular Pandora Free Internet Music site can now easily post their songs and radio stations to Twitter and Facebook. Facebook users will be able to listen to a quick thirty second preview of the post while tweeps will be able to send out shortened urls. These links...

Quick Byte: Swayze Passes Away after 20 Month Cancer Battle Actor Patrick Swayze 57, died Monday after his enduring 20 Month battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” [...] by his publicist, Annett Wolf. False rumors were spread...

Fake Twitter Amber Alert, Yet Once Again Twitter, being one of the larger real time communication platforms that can pass message at the speed of thought, laid victim to a terrible hoax today. Apparently a Tweeted message was sent alerting tweeps that a 3 year Girl was taken in Stockton, Ca. The message also stated that an Amber Alert was in...

The Breakdown: The Facebook App for Android The official Facebook Android Application launched today and many of the features fall someone short to the Android Users. Facebook, having just released a major update to the iPhone Facebook App, did not manage user expectations that well – at all. Having used the iPhone app for the past couple of...

Disgruntled Man Smacks Stranger’s Kid in Wal-Mart Popular today on the social media platform Reddit, was a brief story about a 61 year old man, smacking some lady’s 2 year old child in a Georgia Walmart. Apparently Roger Stephens approached Sonya Mathews and told her to make her child stop crying. Stephens then went on to tell Mathews if she...

Twitter: Project Retweet in Phase One Status Many people have often suggested that Twitter should put a reTweet Button or link on posts to enable users to pass along information in a more efficient manner. Effective today phase one of Project Rewteet has officially been announced on Twitters blog. What does Phase one mean of project Retweet? So far...