Ever have the urge to shout at your phone? Want to grab that coveted “mayor” badge in Foursquare? Now you can do both at the same time if you have an Android 2.0 or higher, thanks to the new collaboration that lets you use update your Foursquare account by voice. The technology already existed for Facebook and Twitter, and so it was just a matter of time before location king Foursquare could get in on the action. Read the rest of this entry »

Virtual goods have slowly begun making their way into mainstream society. Target today is announcing that it will be carrying Facebook Credits gift cards nationwide, making it the first brick-and-mortar retailer to do so. With the virtual goods industry blooming, both Facebook and Target expect these cards to become hits as gifts. More after the jump.

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LivingSocial is one of a handful of major daily deals providers fighting for dominance in the group coupons/local deals space – and they’ve just added a new tool to their arsenal to try to beat out the competition. While they have had a presence in over 20 major cities for several months now, LivingSocial has just announced their new hyperlocal deals targeting not cities but neighborhoods. These deals are even more location-specific than others. Read below the jump to see if you are in one of the first neighborhoods to get your very own daily deals.
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Politicos, well at least Democrats, everywhere rejoice.

Organizing for America (OAF), the political arm of the Democratic National Committee, today announced an upgrade of its iPhone app, just in time for November’s contentious mid-term elections.

The new tool takes what was once the bain of every field workers’ existence, canvassing, or the organizing of door-to-door campaign visits, from campaign headquarters to the voters’ own pockets.

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More and more brands are breaking out of the box with YouTube takeover campaigns that jump out of the video player to utilize the entire YouTube interface.  We’ve already seen a variety of neat campaigns from Samsung, Sylvester Stallone and The Expendables, Cadbury and more.  Now Tipp-Ex whiteout is getting creative with a cool, new interactive YouTube takeover ad campaign called ‘A hunter shoots a bear.’
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Over the coming weeks, Twitter will be rolling out two major updates to its service. These updates will impact how third-party applications (such as desktop applications, websites and smart phone apps) access and interact with your data, and how URLs are displayed in the necessarily restrictive 140-character space allotted for your tweets. Below the jump, details on these major updates.
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On July 24, YouTubers around the world shot and submitted video footage of their lives for Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Life In A Day’ project.  ‘Life In A Day’ aims to document the lives of twenty individuals from around the globe in the first crowd-sourced YouTube documentary.  The final film will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, but before then you can preview some of the 80,000 submissions in an interactive video gallery launched on the ‘Life In A Day’ YouTube Channel.
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Is the current debate over online privacy more media hype than true consumer concern?

Yes, according to a new study released jointly by Upshot, a Chicago-based marketing agency, and BrainJuicer®, a consumer-driven consultancy firm.  Their research found that, when presented with providing personal information in order to receive a useful service, consumers cared more about receiving a highly personalized, high quality and relevant service than protecting their privacy online.

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Over the last few days, a video of a dog dancing Merengue has been spreading like wildfire on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the social web.  This dog does a better Merengue than I do, for sure, and she appears to be content with performing, her tail wagging all the while.  Too many people upload cruel videos to YouTube, in which they force their dogs to dance or pass off a sick or hurt dog as a “dancing dog”, so we decided to put together a collection of 10 dancing dogs with real talent.  These ten dogs know how to move and love to perform.  Check ‘em all out after the jump.
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Yesterday the media found itself in a breaking news situation when an armed man broke into the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland — Twitter users were able to break the news first. The story contained several alarming elements, including a large building filled with endangered employees, an unknown enemy and hostages. As The Washington Post pointed out, Twitter was the first place where not only words, but also telling images were released about the story’s various threads. Read the rest of this entry »