eModeration Links of the Week: It's all about the Instagram (almost)
A social media links list curated from a (mostly) US perspective. Below are just a few of the week's Social Media reads that tickled our funny bones. Enjoy!
Instagram in the News
It has been an interesting week for Instagram, the iPhone photo sharing service that the WSJ includes as one of the new "niche" networks. Barack Obama (his campaign staff) joined using the @BarackObama id and posted a photo on the evening of the Iowa caucuses. (We're hoping Michelle joins Pinterest next in a one-two social media punch.) Also this week, Instagram users gained the ability to post full-size pics to Facebook, while Dan Catt pontificated on Instagram vs. Flickr. (Check out the White House's Flickr photo stream here.)
Our parent friends are discussing safe ways for their children to participate online. On their hotlists: for the builders/explorers - Minecraft at home and for educators, for the adventurers - Time Tribe, and for the networkers - Sweety High. Common Sense Media is always our go-to child/media review source, but we also liked this week's list from Vertical Measures of social media networks for children.
Team Mashable serves up 10 Ways to Refresh Your Digital Life for the New Year in a tidy gallery deck. We were so taken with their Twitter maintenance tips, we've repeated them here for your convenience: weed out inactive accounts with Untweeps, take a look at who is following you with no follow back via Tweeter Karma, and get your lists in better order with Formulists. Other Twitter specific tips include refreshing avatar and doing an applications access check.
ReadWriteWeb's Dave Copeland reviews the tech giants who have thrown their support behind the Open Act, the bipartisan alternative to SOPA and PIPA
that protects US domains in the fight against piracy while addressing
foreign rogue websites. Will the US manage to kill the Internet as we
know it?
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