It is about time. It seems most folks, even designers use LinkedIn cause as imperfect as it is, it is kind of the defacto site for professional networking with 70+ million registered users. The problem has always been that along with your resume there has never been an easy way to showcase your portfolio. Well [...]

Twitter has just announced that they are banning third-party ad networks from using the Twitter API to insert ads into a user’s stream. “Why are we prohibiting these kinds of ads? First, third party ad networks are not necessarily looking to preserve the unique user experience Twitter has created. They may optimize for either market [...]

Some pretty interesting new research from Edelman: Social media may or may not be advertising, according to some people on Madison Avenue, but according to the average consumer, it has emerged as a top form of media entertainment. That’s the conclusion of new research being released today by PR industry giant Edelman, which surveyed 1,000 [...]

As expected, Twitter has launched their new tool that lets anybody embed a tweet on a Website or blog. The feature—which I first saw mentioned on Monday—replaces the “workaround” many were using of just taking a screencap of a tweet and uploading the image to post. The service, called Blackbird Pie, lets you create an [...]

At the official Twitter developer conference Chirp, Twitter shared some very revealing data about its site, users, and growth that had previously been kept under lock and key. Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users. New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every [...]