SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE Founder and CEO of Emerging Media, Susan Lindner, reviews the Capital One Panel On Social Media, and defines discipline as the key word. Video courtesy of Forbes.com THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network: www.ldcmediacreative.com For free daily alerts...

IS FACEBOOK OVER? Is this a good time for Facebook, and do you believe in it? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged his employees to double-down on their company shares, but the stock chart is showing nearly a 50% drop in share value since the IPO in May. Jon Friedman discusses the state of the...

There are a lot of fake tweets going up on Twitter, especially deaths of famous people, and a recent  hoax account that claimed the death of Syria‘s Bashar Al Assad resulted in the drive of an oil-price spike. How do you know a real tweet from a fake one? WSJ social media director...

According to a study by the University of Buffalo‘s journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and  Social Networking, women who base their self-worth on their looks publish more photos and maintain larger social networks, such as Facebook. The research polled 311 23-year-olds about their...

If you’re an online lurker, time’s up on your sneaky snooping. Facebook has announced that when you look at a post within a group, they will all be notified that you saw it and when. Liz Gannes has details on WSJ‘s Digits. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative...

The recent sale of Digg for just €500,000 has social media stars under scrutiny. Once valued at more than $160 million, $45 million in venture capital was orginally raised by the news-sharing site in return for stock options that are now worth less than two-thirds of investors’...

The effectiveness, value, and ability of advertising, particularly via mobile devices, on Google and  Facebook has been put under the microscope. Just before the Facebook’s now infamous IPO, General Motors put the social media giant on the spot when they announced that advertising on...

Katherine Losse rose through the ranks of Facebook, from customer support to Mark Zuckerberg‘s ghostwriter, and now she is causing a stir with her book, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. Video courtesy of Digits, WSJ.com. To read more, click on WSJ. THE...

The effectiveness, value, and ability of Facebook ads to measure results have been heavily questioned in the last couple of months. Just before the now infamous IPO, General Motors put Facebook on the spot when they announced that the social media network did not work for them, and they were...

Marshall Crook and Alexandra Cheney of the Wall Street Journal review the new series of Dallas, the most successful television series of the 1980s. The Reagan-era soap opera followed the power struggles, secrets, and betrayals of the oil-rich Ewing family. Three original cast members, Patrick...

The Wall Street Journal‘s Tech Diary Andy Jordan talks about the social media currency made popular by Klout.com, which measures your social audience and the influence of your networking. THE PULSE is produced by LdC Media The Creative Network: www.ldcmediacreative.com For free...

ICorrect is a website which gives celebrities a platform from which to correct what is written about them. Launched by David Tang, the businessman and socialite best known as founder of the Shanghai Tang fashion chain, ICorrect charges members  $1000 a year for the privilege, including...