Rihanna - What's My Name? ft. Drake

I'm back y'all after my hiatus. I'm going to start posting more posts, so stay tuned.

I'm really feeling my girl Ri Ri and Drizzy Drake's what's my name video. So

here you go more to come...peace!

Hi, Mom I'm on YouTube

First and Foremost Let me say Happy Birthday You Tube the sites turned 5 this year. Life without You Tube...let's see. It would be harder to research things, as far as illustrating how to ride a motorcycle. How to add programs to a computer and other things that 6 yrs ago you'd probably have to obtain a manual or pay someone to teach you. Now if you need to reference something or watch an instructional video You Tube is the way to go. I have another blog that's through the GetHealthyHarlem.org website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw2wRvnYhpU I interviewed Personal Trainer Mr. Donte Jones at the Harlem YMCA, and went through several workout routines. Now if I wanted to get that on the air, I'd probably have to go through a lot of work to get that done. However, through You Tube I just connected my camcorder to my laptop uploaded the Video to You Tube and Viola! I was ready to broadcast my video to the world. Don't think I could have imagined that happening 6yrs ago. However, when you're uploading to You Tube make sure you have the correct lighting, a good camcorder and also good sound quality. You want to make sure that your audience can view and understand what you're broadcasting. If you haven't uploaded a video I'm urging you to. It's fun and if you like the film/video industry this is a good way to start practicing.

MySpace...is not dead!

MySpace is not dead, it's just that Facebook blew it out of the water back in 2006. MySpace was the leading social media website prior to FB. However, MySpace has made a resurgence through music.
MySpace features Pages of mainstream artists as well as those who are up and coming. There are many albums and tracks available to listen. In addition fans can add them as friends and get blog updates and concerts tours in their respective city. MySpace is still alive and kicking and they have some cool tunes to listen to as well.

Attenchuuuun!!

Uncle Sam wants you to start blogging at ease soldier!! Milblogs have sprouted up on Twitter and Facebook with members of the miltary and leaders sending blogs related to what's going on in the military. Milblogging was created by by Jean-Paul Borda in 2005. Prior to Milblogging, Borda ran a military blog from Afghanistan while deployed with the Army National Guard during Operation Enduring Freedom. His original military blog "The National Guard Experience" was written as a means to stay in touch with family, friends and supporters while on deployment. Frustrated by a lack of media coverage on the positive accomplishments of the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan and wanting an easy way to find military blogs, Borda decided during his deployment to create a site of military-related blogs from around the world when he returned to the United States. Now it has gone to all of the military branches, Army, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and the Navy. These blogs help give the public a different view than just what the TV networks are showing. The service member gives an account of their experience on their deployment and tells the positive and negative experiences to family, friends and loved ones back home.

Apple - iPad - What is iPad?

Apple unveils the Ipad's first TV commericial

Apple unveils a new Ipad commercial presenting it's new product. The Ipad which has caused many apple consumers to have a high demand for it. Sales have launched through the roof and some consumers are still waiting to get their Ipad. Vivid color, more apps and many other new features have cause many who aren't Apple fans to jump and get this new innovative tool.

Follow me!! Lead the way!!

If you watch enough television commercials you'll see companies with the follow on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. With so many people logged on and social media tied into so many different networks you can now follow your favorite brands and companies and actually create more of an intimate relationship with them. Instead of just going by word of mouth, advertisements, and testimonials you can get inside the nuts and the bolts of the company and also hear what others have to say and their experiences good and bad. However, there are knockoff sights (inauthentic) sites that look like the real thing, but are not the actually true site. So log on to twitter and facebook and other social networks with the correct URL and happy networking.

Facebook Fiends????

Ok, let's all be truthful here. How often do you log on to Facebook while you're online? If you log on every time you're on the web then you might be a Facebook fiend. I'll admit that I've had to wean off Facebook while I started to write a class assignment or just force myself not to see what my friends were up to. And to think a couple of years ago when I was introduced to Facebook I thought it was a waste of time. MySpace was the king of social media interaction and thinking of creating another online profile seemed too tedious. What a difference a couple of years make. Now MySpace is almost a memory except for the vastly large selection of music and music personality pages that still attract members. If FB could find a way to incorporate the same type of style, think what that would do to the competion????? Or is it gong to be like Jay-Z's BluePrint part 3 track, "On to the Next One."

Twitter my decision

Chris Bosh of the NBA team Toronto Raptors will is a free agent meaning he is free to sign with any team besides his own. Problem is Bosh is having a hard making the decision if he should stay with the Raptors or which other NBA city he should go to. For help making that decision he's looking toward the aid of his fellow Tweeters. Bosh posted a Tweet asking, Where should I go next season and why." This is the first time that an NBA player has posted a tweet asking fans and all his Twitter followers a decision in what team they should sign with. However, this is a good way of hearing what real fans have to say. Also fans of other teams that want his services for their respective teams. Also Bosh may be up to something good here, maybe he's just waiting to hear how the Toronto fans react? How bad do they really want him back? Have they really appreciated his hard work and effort in the time he's played there? Or is it time to find a team in a larger market like New York, Miami or Chicago? I guess the answer to these questions will be told later this summer.

Bye Bye Birdie

The NFL and NBA have created strict guidelines for against social networking. Several professional athletes have suffered heavy fines for tweeting during game time. On October 25, 2009 Kansas City Chiefs star running back Larry Johnson playing a terrible game statistically and the Chiefs lost the to the San Diego Chargers 37-7. Being frustrated with team's play Johnson logged onto his Twitter account and spoke negatively about this head coach and used a gay slur. The result of that was being fined, suspended and later on released from the team. There are athletes such as Chad Ochocinco and Shaquille O'Neal who love being in the public spotlight along with the attention they attract. Gilbert Arenas of the NBA Washington Wizards cracked jokes on Twitter while he was under major investigation for drawing an illegal handgun in the Wizards locker room. In addition Michael Beasley posted tweets of borderline suicidal thoughts. Both Sport Leagues saw this as a problem that needed to get addressed. Players need to be reminded what their roles are which is to win games, create entertainment for the fans and serve as positive role models to children and adolescents.

In September NASA will have aboard the final Space Shuttle Discovery launch into space a humanoid robot that will assist humans and eventually will replace their counterparts in completing human tasks. These robots (Robonaut2) are designed with enough movement to hold different tools and have the capacity to lift four times more weight than an human. Sounds like Terminator 2 to me. However when you look at the positives, this is good for space research and also exploring other planets. Atmospheres that are uninhabitable to humans these robots can do work and possible more enhanced models will be able to do more tasks. I Robot, Terminator might not be just science fiction. Hasta La Vista Baby!

Trends in Twitter And The Activity Involved Wouldn't You LIke To Know

Clinton Allen

Whatthetrend.com deals with twitterer’s commenting on what are the trends going on the Twitter website. What people are posting and how many people react to the posting giving their feedback on the topics. Each trend chart is ranked from 1-10, shows how many points that trend has, the peak index, the change whether is positive or negative. Then the name of the twitterer is shown who started the trend and then the description of the trend.

This in an example of the top 100 Twitter Trends.

What the Trend: Twitter Trends February 26 – March 4, 2010

Top 100 Trends

Week In Review

The past week saw a majority of discussion around the Chilean earthquake. Alone, the earthquake accounted for 34 unique trends out of a total of 593 trends total for the week. In addition, there were a number of SPAM trends that broke the top 10 topics, and in aggregate, SPAM was #11 on the overall non-hashtag chart. Twitter has spent some time trying to battle these SPAM trends in the past, blacklisting as soon as they appear. It may be that the spammers have become more sophisticated and Twitter will need to update their algorithms to better combat these attacks.Chile vs. Haiti

The Haitian and Chilean earthquake trends are recent examples of the use of Twitter’s immediate response mechanism for natural disasters. However, given the Twitter community’s fickle attention span, a subject not being discussed constantly quickly falls out of the limelight. As an example, while Haiti dominated Twitter for approximately two week’s time, it has since fallen greatly in the standings despite the fact that relief efforts are still very much underway. Expectation is that without new social media pushes on the part of Chilean humanitarian groups and spokespeople, Chile will too quickly fall out of the statusphere.

Sports

In the NBA, the Lakers and the Miami Heat were the most tweeted about teams this week. Other sports that trended were Football in Europe,

Trends by Category

Lifestyle 7%

News 7%

SPAM 8%

Other 10%

Technology 10%

Entertainment 35%

Sports Meme 12%

By this example Twitterers are interested in Entertainment the most then followed by Sport and Technology. So you’ll see a lot of people sending tweets to entertainers also following them and commenting on their tweets and links.

http://tinyurl.com/yhkypad

What's really good with Tweeting?

Twitter has shown a recent surge in tweets and new members joining the site. From sharing news headlines and comments about everyday events twitterers are sharing their thoughts with others worldwide. Ben Foster who I decided to follow talks about current events, and also commenting on current events sharing opinions about these events. Ben shares his thoughts on corporate strategy and social media. Twin Influence measures how popular a Twitterer's page is and show how many followers are following.
Mostly Celebrities are the Twitterer's that are followed the most and monitored closely. Ben Foster\'s Twitter Account

http://www.twitter.com/benphoster

Social Media..How Southwest Is Making Their Consumers To Be Up, Close and Personal

"Nuts about Southwest" I really love the way Southwest has designed their new blog. It allows its consumers to upload and share photos by using Flickr, upload videos with YouTube. As well as following Tweets on Twitter, and business accounts with LinkedIn. Their blog is user friendly with being able to see what flights are available by clicking on the Southwest website as well the new commercials that are endorsing that unlike other airlines that charge for there passengers to pay for their luggage. Southwest boasts their passengers don't pay for their first and second bag luggage. They have a good thing going and they have a leg up on the competition.

Twitterers Pix

TweetPhoto many of my friends and all of my fellow twitterers are addicted to this app. With their cells phones they are able to take pics and and post it on twitter using this function. For example a friend of mine put this pic of a car design that she thought looked like an interstate car battery. I thought it was funny and as many people agreed it sure did look like one. I wonder if the person knows that that their car design choice isn't getting rave reviews. Another intesting feature of TweetPhoto is you can share on Facebook as well as on Twitter. There you can see who commented on your pic and who looked at it. Yea this person may want to consider racing for NASCAR.

The Bird Is The Word!

Twitter has been around since 2006 Founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. It has been called the SMS of social media online. I enjoy using twitter because of the one on one personal contact you have with other twitterers. You can connect with friends, make new friends that are interested in the same things that you are. Meeting celebrities and following what they are saying as well as networking with them. Corporations use twitter as well and that creates a more intimate relationship between them and their consumers.