Twitter has posted this evening an interesting chart graphing how long it took for the news of Whitney Houston’s death to hit escape velocity – the point where it traveled from an individual in Los Angeles to his network and then to the entire world. The answer? No more than two hours.

Matt McAlister, Director of Digital Strategy at Guardian Media Group, spoke at the SMI11 conference about the future of social, mobile and local targeting – or “SoMoLo” for short – and its impact on communities a few months back. We caught up with McAlister again this week to discuss the beta launch of n0tice

Clay Shirky has been in London this week promoting the paperback launch of Here Comes Everybody with a series of talks on social networks and digital democracy. Stephen Waddington got an autograph and posted a …

Yesterday’s inauguration of Barack Obama as president of the United States was very much a test of the most popular social networking and digital media services. The public did not disappoint, and thankfully, neither did …

Twitter’s looking for a business product manager. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sees it as the first step in Twitter’s plan to ramp up revenue, adding:
“Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes …

The terror attacks in Mumbai shocked the world at large on more than one level. The violence, injury and loss of human life which we brace ourselves for every time something like this happens somewhere …