Users interact with their friends through social media when viewing their favorite television shows (Image: via viralblog.com)

More and more people are engaging in “social TV”, which means they are watching TV at the same time using Facebook, Twitter or checking emails, and even tweeting actors in television shows they are currently watching – a combination of social media and TV.
Advertisers are quick to notice this trend. According to a study by Nielsen, 40 percent of …

The tale of 1001 Nights is being used by a South African Documentary depicting the Arab Spring, and gathering support through social media crowd-funding campaigns. (Image: garlandcannon (CC), via Flickr)

A team of filmmakers from South Africa is currently in the process of finish their film, a documentary showing events that have recently transpired in Middle East and the Maghreb, using the help of social media to realize a campaign funding to finish their film.
What happened during the past …

China Clamps Down on Social Media Sites Following Internet Reports on Coup / image via businesstech.co.za

Six people have been reported detained and more than 10 websites closed down as China tightens its iron grip on the nation’s social networking sites, following widely circulating reports in Chinese social media over the weekend of a coup in that authoritarian state.
In a report from Beijing late Sunday, the Associated Press said Beijing police interrogated an unspecified number of …

US Congress Shoots Down Bill That Would Prevent Employers from Demanding Social Media Passwords / image via Digital Trends

Latest Internet news from Washington said the US House of Representatives has voted against a bill that would prevent employers from demanding that job applicants reveal their social media passwords as part of their application requirements.
Industry observer Digital Trends disclosed that the bill was shot down apparently because lawmakers felt that the reports on the …

Rah-rah For Re-Re! Re-launch Up for Friends Reunited Social Network Site

If you are into online nostalgia, then the re-launch of pioneering social networking site Friends Reunited this week is for you.
BBC today reports that site owner Brightsolid, in announcing the return to the Internet of the social networking site since it changed ownership hands in 2005, expects Friends Reunited to be the first such site to take off from the UK.
At its peak since it opened in 2000, Friends Reunited had …

Social Media Password Controversy Involving Employers in the US Gathers More Heat

The Associated Press reporting from Seattle yesterday said another US senator has joined the call for an immediate investigation by the US government of reports that certain employers have been demanding job applicants to reveal their social media usernames and passwords as part of job application requirements.
AP said Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has joined fellow Democrat Sen. Richard …

Facebook Enters Fray Over Employers’ Demands for Job Applicants’ Passwords

Social networking giant Facebook is warning employers that they may face legal action if they indeed demand Facebook passwords from users applying for jobs.
The Associated Press, reporting from New York this morning, said the reported widespread practice of prospective employers asking for applicants’ social media passwords is an invasion of privacy that could open such companies to possible lawsuits.
A Facebook …

Can Internet Speeds Prove Equal to the London 2012 Olympics Needs?

Latest reports from London are expressing concern over the capability of Internet service providers in the UK to handle the huge amount of data expected for streaming as live content when the 2012 London Olympics gets underway this summer.
The UK Internet Providers Association has warned that the problem could pile up when more businesses allow the streaming of Olympic Games content for employees eager to watch the games live …

A US Bill Is Now in the Works Against Employers Demanding Social Media Passwords

Following this week’s furor over reports that job applicants in the US were being asked by prospective employers to surrender their social media passwords as part of the application process, a US senator says he has filed a bill aimed at stopping the practice, which he said is an unreasonable invasion of privacy.
Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal told AP that the problem calls for a national solution, …

Breaking News on Twitter

The social networking world, one of the biggest sub-populations of the worldwide web, is breaking new ground with its fast-catching user attention throughout the Internet, that of breaking news.
Tech networks Monday reported that something might be afoot in the social networking world, particularly for the top micro-blogging social networking site—Twitter.
A recent Pew Research Center study showed that while only less than 10% of Twitter users get their news from …