What People Are Talking About Online

A Facebook group is helping the victims of the massive Oklahoma tornado, which killed 51 people and left many homeless, get their belongings back.

New services are moving beyond the Facebook approach, with tools to create new content instead of just sharing it.

The most hateful tweeters in the United States tend to live in the eastern half of the country, according to a new map that pinpoints hate speech directed at gays and minority groups from Twitter across country.

Department of Slack: Pizza Hut is launching an app for Xbox Live that will allow users to customize and order pizzas straight from their Xbox 360 console, Users will be able to build and place their orders using Kinect motion controls, voice commands, or the Xbox 360 controller.

Within hours of obtaining identifications of the Boston marathon bombing suspects, police likely obtained search warrants and extensive digital records from mobile phone networks and social media and e-mail providers.

The fast-growing rise of such data sets—and rise of network analysis tools to make sense of them—could provide a boon in the investigation. It might reveal the existence of other evidence, further plots, or the identity of accomplices.

"There are tons of apps, online tools and time management methods out there, but it wasn’t until I began experimenting with more nontraditional, seemingly archaic means of managing my time that I truly began to harness the full power of time management."

Self-censorship on Facebook: Typing five or more characters into your status box before deleting.

Men self-censored more than women -- particularly if they had large numbers of male friends. And other stats on reported social media restraint.

The Democrats have won the last two Presidential elections thanks to their savvy use of social media. Is the GOP ready to text them "Message received"?

Twitter released its new Vine app in January as a way to send short, 6-second, looping videos in the same way users send photos or 140-character message to their followers. 

It seems opponents of South Carolina Dem-candidate for a House seat have used Vine, the way Obama's team used Instagram. Very savvy indeed.

Smartphones are keepiing people under 30 connected in a way that owning a car used to. And as such, smartphones compete against cars for young people’s big-ticket dollars, since the cost of a good phone and data plan can exceed $1,000 a year.

When Yahoo's Web 1.0 "fanbase" (i.e., those who grew up watching the Brady Bunch in its first iteration) collides head on with Web 2.0 (Tumblr and microblogging), what will the future be?

As LinkedIn expands into countries where the oldest profession (prostitution) meets the newest (social media) - and where prostitution is legal - the social network has had to clarify its terms of use.

"Just about two years ago, I went off the deep end. I had come home early from an event in an effort to do something responsible: email. I was on the road and knew the situation would be dire (since I had not been checking my email all day).  I was wrong. It was a disaster."

A couple of months ago there seemed to be a mini-backlash against us amateur mobile food photo junkies taking pics of our meals. This wasn't just at your classy carpaccio-serving joints (pictured at the left), it even happened at a McDonalds!

But it was a backlash against providing a hungry audience with a steady stream of "food porn" that never really went anywhere.

The new "No." Often, not responding to an e-mail or telephone call might say “no” unintentionally, though sometimes that is exactly what we meant to say.

Santiago Swallow may be one of the most famous people no one has heard of. His eyes fume from his Twitter profile: he is Hollywood-handsome. Next to his name is one of social media’s most prized possessions, Twitter’s blue “verified account” checkmark. Beneath it are numbers to make many in the online world jealous: Santiago Swallow has tens of thousands of followers. The tweets Swallow sends them are cryptic nuggets of wisdom that unroll like scrolls from digital fortune cookies: “Before you lose weight, find hope,” says one. Another: “To write is to live endlessly.”

And, of course, he isn't real. But rather the figment of one very creative writer's imagination - and $68, which is all it took to get Santiago Swallow up and running.

Bingeing on a TV show used to be something you'd only do when home with the flu. Now it's how we want to consume TV all the time.

Whether we’ve been buying the DVD box set, DVR-ing a full season of our favorite show on our DVRs, ordering from On Demand in bulk, or just streaming an old show from Netflix or Amazon, we are more and more an audience who wants our programming on our own terms.

No one's ever said Justin Bieber was the brightest bulb in the box. So let's start this otherwise snarky recap of the day's events by giving him some props for arranging to stop by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam amid his busy schedule. But saying the teen diarist would have been a "Belieber" (aka "big Justin Bieber fan") had she been born in a different era, and um...perhaps survived the Holocaust is a bit creepy. Bieber's got 37 million Twitter followers. Hoping some of the backlash Bieber is getting over his ridiculous comment, particualrly from other popular celebs, gets some of his

fans to maybe read a book. A majority of them claim to not know who Anne Frank was.