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Majority of Adults Now Google Themselves [STUDY]

Online users are taking a more active interest in reputation management, a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found. Findings suggest that users increasingly change privacy settings, delete comments and untag themselves in photos, but overall the online population worries 7% less about how much information is available about itself than it did in 2006.


Betty White’s “Saturday Night Live” Gig Dominated Hulu

The Betty White-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live led last week’s Hulu viewership stats — just one more sign of success for the episode that was NBC’s most-viewed on the air in 18 months. NewTeeVee reports that five clips related to the show and the full episode stream were among the top 20 videos between May 3 and 9, even though all but one of those videos went online on the last of those days. The Facebook -themed Betty White SNL monologue and the NPR “Betty White’s Muffin” appearance were among the videos that performed well, no doubt because of blog posts and tweets embedding or linking to them.


Why Sex-Ed Remains a Challenge for Social Media

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Addressing the very private nature of intimacy remains the most difficult aspect of sex-ed on the social web. While “Public Health 2.0″ is a top priority for related causes and organizations, it can be difficult to approach from a social media standpoint


Fisher Price iXL: iPad for Rugrats

You know, toys from the ’80s and early ’90s were cool, but today’s kids really have it made. Case in point, while Mom, Dad and Auntie Christina might be lusting after the iPad , the Pre-K family members get their own tablets


POLL: Verizon Trounces AT&T in Reader Vote

Last week, we witnessed a shocker in our weekly Web Faceoff series, where we pit two tech companies or web apps against each other and let you choose the victor. To our surprise, Google Android easily trounced the popular iPhone by over 1800 votes. This week, we decided to jump from mobile to carrier.


What Users Like/Dislike About Google Wave [DATA]

Google has been actively collecting feedback on Google Wave with an ongoing survey, which was distributed via email, the help center, and Twitter. Today they’ve published the initial findings for public dissection.


Boston #Hyatt4Good Tweetup is This Friday!

Over the past several weeks we’ve been on the #Hyatt4Good Tweetup Tour raising money for the the Summer of Social Good charity fund. We’ve had the great pleasure of meeting a lot of you so far and we have one stop left, Boston, before next week’s Social Good Conference . From the tour alone, we’ve raised over $6,500.