A growing tendency right now, that I've seen several times is to reduce your personal networks and pull it down to around 100-200 people, a clear social trend which goes back to the small 1800 century villages that rarely contained more than 150 people and where all knew everyone, and perhaps even a relative to one another. 

The service Path has a limit of 150 friends and which is based in large part from the very...

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

If you’re like me, with three days off, there’s always a smidge of time to squeeze in a project.

Whether it’s baking a batch of decadent brownies with 20 ounces of chocolate, tossing up an arugula and strawberry salad,...

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Businesses of all sizes need to have dogged focus on revenue generation and business growth. They also need to perform certain non-revenue generating activities, like recruitment. If non-revenue generating activities are not performed well, business growth can be hampered in the long run. Hence, resources available to businesses have to be judicially divided between revenue generating and non-revenue generating activities. It is a thin line. SME’s in particular struggle to manage both, because, they do not have the luxury of a plethora of resources available at their disposal. So, in their dogged quest of revenue generation and...

How do you connect with prospective employers when everyone, including your current boss, can see your social profiles? Is your Klout score important? Should you cull your past tweets to get rid of your rants? Our Social Media Club Austin panel will discuss these and other burning questions that are top of mind for job seekers and top talent in Austin.

Entertainer Cee-Lo Green's cat, Purrfect, has become a mouthpiece for NBC's The Voice, a singing competion which this past Tuesday crowned its second winner. With 63,000 followers on Twitter, this feline certainly has a voice of its own - one that meows to promote the television show that led it to fame.

If a cat can do it, we all can.

But to what end?

The insertion of social media in education has the potential to advance core aims of our society: to teach students how to engage with their families, neighbors, and communities in a new way.

The combination of social media and education requires that we teach students how to become literate in a...