Today we tried something a little different, instead of one “show” we sort of split it into two parts. We have our news segment and then a separate call-in section where a number of audience members joined us as our guests. Next week we’ll have an official guest back again but we hope you enjoy this new format we plan to run with every now and then.
As our title indicates, our main topics today were the Haiti Earthquake and how social media is playing a role in facilitating the recovery efforts, Mashable’s rumored possibility of getting aquired with AOL, and our usual suspects of Facebook & Twitter news. See below for the full list of topics.
Facemail: Facebook Using E-mail
You are now able to leave comments on statues to Facebook as long as your settings enable “e-mail notifications”.
[via readwriteweb]
AOL Likely To Acquire Mashable, World’s Largest Tech Blog
AOL is currently in talks to acquire Mashable, the world’s largest technology blog. A sale to the content-obsessed internet company would mean Mashable’s 24-year-old founder Pete Cashmore really would have everything. Mashable excels at promoting content on sites like Twitter, Digg, and Google– a direction AOL is looking to take.
[via gawker]
Twurder: Twitter Argument May Have Led to Murder
According to reports the two men argued on Twitter, and although they were supposedly good friends, murder was on the mind of one of them. This may be the first time Tweets will be used as evidence in a murder trial.
[via mashable]
YouTube Partners Got A Nexus One: Win, Urgo Wasn’t One Of Them: Fail
If you are a YouTube Partner then you got a Nexus One and a note of thank you, courtesy of YouTube.
[via mashable]
Use Synchtube and Watch Online Together
Ever wanted to watch YouTube with your online buds? Now you can with Synchtube. It allows you to invite others instantly to a room where you can all watch the same videos together in real time.
[via synchtube]
How Social Media Became So Instrumental In a Collective Response to the Earthquake in Haiti
The major earthquake in Haiti was a natural disaster of monstrous proportions. Many people have been injured, killed, and displaced; though the staggering amount of response by people all across the world is a phenomenal example of how technology is continuing to provide a way for people to help in the aid and relief of the hurting nation of Haiti. Social media became a driving force in spreading the word; if you were on Twitter anytime after Tuesday evening, you probably saw plenty of tweets about donating to the Red Cross or Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation via text message.
Millions of dollars have so far been raised via text messaging donation campaigns mainly driven through Twitter and Facebook. This great way of helping out the cause was made possible by the technology of Give on the Go, the company that coordinated the logistical transfer of funds between you and your wireless carrier. The overall level of awareness that’s possible because of Twitter and Facebook has played an an integral role in the the multitude of quick responses by many people. Although physical aid to Haiti is bottlenecked as a result of airport damage, fund based support is coming in steady streams, all because so many people who care are utilizing the social web to its capacity.
Aside from the funding-based support that’s been accelerated becuase of social media, there have been amazingly coordinated efforts to create a unified missing person’s list as well as a system that’s been created to handle aid requests tagged with location and situational specific data. Google has stepped up in coordinating the aid request forms, and they’ve even updated Google Earth and Maps so people can take a look at the destruction and damage caused by the earthquake.
Needless to say, there’s been an overwhelming response to this terrible natural disaster in Haiti. Individuals are increasingly more aware and ready to respond to such events when there’s the inter-connectivity that technology and social media has provided; a collective consciousness is made possible because of the modes of communication afforded by the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and the social web at large.
[via abcnews, mashable, reddit, google, google], & google]
Big Thank you’s to those who called in and took part in the second half of the show. We look forward to doing this again and would love to hear your thoughts on it. As always thank you for tuning in whether it is Live or on YouTube, we appreciate it.
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