Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates Available to All Company Pages: You can now select a target audience for updates shared on … Continued
Hilarious Precision Beer-Tossing Video Will Make You Laugh Out Loud [UPDATED]
Summer just arrived, and I don’t know about you, but we’re getting awfully thirsty for some brewskis around here. This video shows you how it’s done here in Milwaukee (home of your humble narrator). We don’t waste any time getting a cold one in our hands to start the weekend right. “Hey, Pass Me a … Continued
Google Maps Coordinate: keep tabs on your team, dish the work out fairly (video)
If you’re a mobile / field worker, and are tired of getting hauled across town to jobs, when there are others nearer by, you might want to point your senior in the direction of Google Maps Coordinate. Sounding like a blend of Latitude, Maps and Google + (Circles,) it’s a web tool and mobile app … Continued
Negative radiation pressure in light could make some tractor beams real, we’re already sucked in
Developing a real, working tractor beam has regularly been an exercise in frustration: it often relies on brute force attempts to induce a magnetic link or an air pressure gap, either of which falls a bit short of science fiction-level elegance. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Mordechai Segev has a theory that would use the … Continued
Facebook rolls out comment editing, embraces your change of heart
Facebook has long betrayed you by forwarding your drunken wall ramblings in an email for posterity. Previously, though, the only way to limit further public shame was to try to delete the comment altogether. Now, it looks like the loose fingered have been given a reprieve, as the social giant is rolling out the ability … Continued
Journalist Dodges Bullets to Live-Tweet Taliban Attack
Twenty people were killed on Friday when Taliban fighters carried out an 11-hour-long siege of a lakeside hotel near Kabul, Afghanistan. Mustafa Kazemi, a Kabul-based journalist who’s becoming well-known for using Twitter to cover life and violence in the country, braved bullets and explosions to live-tweet the attack while it was unfolding. Below, check out … Continued
Sony suspends PlayStation Store for PS3 in Korea, blames new law about selling to minors
Sony has been caught unawares by a legal change in South Korea, which prevents under-18s from being asked for their names or ages for the purpose of account authentication. No sooner had the company announced a half-price sale at its PS Store and then it was forced to pull the whole thing down in order … Continued
5 Advanced Twitter Tips for Your Small Business
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So you’re running a small business and you’ve got the basics of social networking mastered: You tweet often, you’ve created a venue on Foursquare and your Facebook Page is beautiful. How … Continued


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