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Overheard during the week ending 4/24/10

April 27, 2010

Controversy and legal troubles this week: Goldman Sachs, Gizmodo, Blippy, and addicted college students struggle with social-media fallout.

Overheard during the week ending 4/17/10

April 20, 2010

Twitter tops the roundup this week, for better or for worse: searching, archiving, advertising, and crowd sourcing. Oh yeah, and Microsoft invents a social phone?!?

Buzz from SXSW 2010

March 25, 2010

Five themes top the list. And there’s a thread running through these topics: Foursquare and Gowalla. They create lot of buzz across multiple categories. Here’s the Networked Insights Buzz Report from SXSW 2010.

Overheard during the week ending 3/20/10

March 22, 2010

Tweets from astronauts and the NCCA Tourney on your phone? You betcha. There’s an app for damn near everything these days. Get with it people.

Overheard during the week ending 3/13/10

March 15, 2010

Traditional media continues to struggle despite more focus on the consumer and growing social-media adoption. Throw in some patent-infringement lawsuits and it’s just another week in the life of new media.

Overheard during the week ending 3/6/10

March 9, 2010

This week saw another patent award (this time for Google), the CDC launch a massive social-media campaign, and lots of academic and MBA-style theorizing about the business value of social-media marketing. And apparently your grandparents are using Facebook.