Instagram Boycott Now Includes National Geographic And Anonymous

  The boycott against photo sharing site Instagram just got the support of two big institutions, each spanning the spectrum of the old and new: National Geographic, and the hacktivist network Anonymous. National Geographic has posted an image on its photo feed saying it was “suspending new posts to Instagram. We are very concerned with [...]

10 best cities for ‘successful aging’

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Get a behind-the-scenes look at the latest stories from CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen and the CNN Medical Unit producers. See on thechart.blogs.cnn.com

5 Hot Startups Using Tech for Good

See on Scoop.it – Internet Billboards Internet News In our World at Work series, Mashable speaks to the faces behind some of today’s most innovative and socially conscious startups. See on mashable.com

Disaster in Italy – Urbino – Cheryl Ferguson – CNN iReport

CNN PRODUCER NOTE Cheryl Ferguson, of Urbino, Italy, shared these pictures to show the world that there is more to Italy than Rome. ‘Yes, it snowed in Rome and they are not used to it. But, we are entombed in snow and in a state of emergency,’ she says. Ferguson and her boyfriend were trapped [...]

:: Generation Flux: Pete Cashmore ::

Via Scoop.it – Mind, Body & Soul On the eve of Thanksgiving, Pete Cashmore is neither basting a turkey nor preparing for football. “It’s not my holiday,” the Scotsman remarks. Via www.fastcompany.com

Rescuers rush to save survivors in wake of deadly Turkish quake

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Battling near-freezing temperatures and darkness, rescue workers and residents in eastern Turkey early Monday scoured the wreckage wrought by the country’s most-powerful earthquake in more than a decade, hoping to find survivors. Television pictures showed them using flashlights, shovels, heavy machinery and their hands to lift the [...]

Heir to the Saudi throne dies – CNN.com

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards New York (CNN) — The heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, died in a New York hospital early Saturday, officials said, raising succession questions in the key oil-producing country at a time of regional turmoil. Sultan, the half-brother of King Abdullah, was thought to be in [...]

Steve Jobs and the rise of social media

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards I remember my father bringing home computers in the 1970s and watching him having to spend hours poring over their seemingly incomprehensible technical manuals just to get the new devices up and running. All that changed in 1984, when he brought home a MacIntosh. Instead of complex circuit diagrams and dense [...]

What Is An iReporter? CNN Explains iReport And Social Media Week

Via Scoop.it – Enterprise Social Media CNN beefs up its citizen reporter network Show original

Why CNN Acquired Zite [INTERVIEW]

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards We interviewed executives at CNN and Zite to find out more about what the acquisition means for both companies.   In tablets generally and the iPad particularly, consumers have found a device conducive to reading news. It’s no surprise then that a growing number of newsreading apps have appeared, from individual, [...]

Google should have worked on social earlier, admits Schmidt

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt believes the company should have focused more on connecting its users, to compete with market-leading Facebook before it became the world’s most popular social network, he revealed in aninterview with CNN. Schmidt said that Facebook has succeeded because it had “worked out who people are” and [...]

Cultivate eccentricity Drudge lives in the penthouse of a very expensive hotel

On any given day, The Drudge Report drives more traffic to major news sites than Facebook or Twitter. Think about that for a minute. One man with a 14-year-old, one-page, static html website sends more traffic to the CNN, Yahoo, New York Times, LA Times, FOX News and USA Today websites than the nearly one [...]