Fighting Flash Mobs Ain't Rocket Science (It's Surveillance!) by Erik Sass

Sometimes there's a big public "controversy" which is really a non-issue, and "flash mobs" organized via social media belong in this category. The question of the moment is how to combat flash mobs, and there is an obvious answer: mass arrests and prison terms for people who participate in them, combined with efforts to change the social conditions which give rise to violent crime in general. None of this is beyond the ability of democratic societies to understand or manage. ...Read the whole story

  • XYDO Delivers Social News Via Email by Laurie Sullivan

    The social start-up XYDO plans to announce an email news service Thursday that aggregates feeds from social sites such as LinkedIn, Google Reader, RSS feeds, and about 100,000 other publisher sites. ...Read the whole story

More On David Cameron: Social Media Equals Social Proof by Kaila Colbin

I spoke at a school administrators' conference this week about social media. "It's nice to hear some good things about social media," said one of the ladies in the audience. "Especially after all the negative things we've been hearing about how the riots in the U.K. were caused by social media." I know the answer to this one, I thought. I wrote a column on this just last week. ...More

  • The Social Search Column I Wish I'd Written by Ryan DeShazer

    In May, I wrote that "Social is the New Search," and articulated my thoughts on how the adoption and evolution of social media would have a profound impact on traditional search. In that piece, I questioned how Google could remain relevant in a socially-charged world and hypothesized that social channels (Facebook especially) would emerge as mainstream search's next logical destination. ...More