Twitter and Pinterest Hacked! Change your Passwords!

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Well, you may already know that over the past week, both Burger King and Jeep got their Twitter accounts hacked. In the case of Burger King, it was a real whopper of a hack! The burger mogul’s profile photo got changed to a mac-in’ big yellow M, and began tweeting support of McDonald’s – to [...]

Is Facebook Killing the Internet?

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Well, it happened once already… On Thursday, the universe practically exploded with tweets and status updates raging about the Big Blue F’s global internet chaos. The hubub didn’t last long, but it was enough to get the attention of nearly every serious user of the net. “What happened,” you ask? Well, not much, actually almost [...]

Is Google full of Musician Spam, Already?

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C. Bret Campbell smallbarnsound@gmail.com Back in March 2012, we talked about musicians flocking to Google Plus and acting like it was a brand new uncharted territory for staking out their MySpace/Facebook like territories.

$100 to message “celebs” on Facebook! For Shame!

  You may as well re-title this “Why I like G+” A couple weeks ago, the news came out that Facebook would begin allowing users to send a message to anyone whether they were “connected” or not. The caveat was that it would cost a dollar. Some uproar and speculation happened, but not much. Then [...]

Live Hangout Show on YouTube to Feature Controversial Web Topics

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This report is shared by our friend from G+:   Mark Ferrasci - Works at Music is Life..Life is Music.. 7:43 AM  -  Public Digital Marketing In The New Age.Black Hat/White Hat, which one do I wear? Actually this stuff’s been going on for quite sometime now.  When this hot button topic hit the feed the other day. In regards to all [...]

What’s hot in Social Media at New Year’s?

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It’s been an exciting year in the world of New (Social) Media! We saw Facebook go public. Pinterest launched to great success. Twitter changed all the rules, yet again, with a completely new design. And Google opened up one of the biggest inovations, ever! But I don’t really feel like doing a “Top Hits of [...]

Social Media and Depression

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Plenty has been written on Depression and Social Media. I don’t plan to get into a dissertation or even a deep study of the subject, here. Today’s writing is just some thoughts that I haven’t been able to get into words for a while, and is taken directly from my G+ Post. C Bret Campbell [...]

Social Exchange

Mark Zuckerberg gave a nice speech about the direction of Facebook and his personal plans with the company, this week. I have to be honest, I didn’t watch it. Evidently, he said the right things, because Facebook stock made a rousing jump right after. But, what’s really going on here? I’ll tell you. Have you [...]

Wild world of social media

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Nobody likes spam, but most of us just accept it as a fact of life. One of the most common complaints I hear about Twitter is that there is simply too much spam! This week Twitter took the fight against unwanted solicitation from robots to court. It’s not the first time, but there is a [...]

Facebook stock UP! Privacy – not so much

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Mark Zuckerberg gave a nice speech about the direction of Facebook and his personal plans with the company, this week. I have to be honest, I didn’t watch it. Evidently, he said the right things, because Facebook stock made a rousing jump right after. But, what’s really going on here? I’ll tell you. Have you [...]