In an oddly revealing blog post today, Fred Wilson, one of Twitter's investors revealed that, henceforth, the micro-blogging network plans to discourage application developers from creating services that offer search, advertising, mobile access, short URLs and photo-sha...

Earlier this year I was told "off the record" by an events company manager that she was simply adding the words "social media" to her events in order to sell the tickets. I guess, if it works...  But the sad fact is, I've attended several social media events in the pas...