Overheard

Overheard during the week ending 5/22/10

May 26, 2010

Chocolate, plane tickets, diapers, cars, VCs… and still social ad spending is low? This week points out the apparent contradiction.

Overheard during the week ending 5/15/10

May 17, 2010

The big players continue to have their fair share of issues with security and privacy. While Twitter and Facebook come under fire, Betty White enjoys a resurgence and the President back pedals.

Overheard during the week ending 5/8/10

May 10, 2010

Politics, shopping, fundraising, movies, healthcare… everybody’s doing it, but no one’s really happy about it. Is social media an unpleasant fact of life?

Overheard during the week ending 5/1/10

May 4, 2010

Whether or not Mark Zuckerberg believes in privacy, the world is clamoring for more and more access… except for a New Jersey principal and the Federal government.

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?!?