LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.
The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.
Brands must be very specific in their choice of social media platforms through which to communicate their CSR or cause messaging.
I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
Understand your audience and you will understand the impact of your message on each follower in your social media networks.
Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.
I was really interested to see whether we could make predictions or forecasts by listening in on what people were saying on social media.
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.
For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.
I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.
