With so much information all over the place, it can be frustrating to remember where you saw what. One of the solutions to this problem is curating information and bundling it into a multi-source package stream like services such as Storify and Storyful.

Ever since I was introduced to Klout I've been attempting to increase my online influence-slash-'reach'. After all, one can't become a new media student without engaging with the Internet and all its thingamajiggies (yes, that is a technical term). 

As a Social Media User like many others I would be happy to share content, such as information, pictures, and data through a network with similar minded people in order to develop and grow. On the other hand, a Social Media Enthusiast will try to be in as many networking sites as possible to share his content, most of the time the same content.

I've noticed that a lot of South African Youtube Channels (Including my personal channel) are not customized as it should be. Look below images for before and after on my channel.

Social media has become an essential part of how we interact with our friends, community and even run our cities and countries. Governments are starting to take serious notice and incorporate social media into their own day-to-day actions.

Hey all, Been a while since I last wrote, exams and the like took up some time.

Some of you may have noticed in the absence between this and my last post, that Gamification has really picked up and been caught on the global radar, with BBCNews even offering an explanation of it, and a brief rationale as to why it might be successfully implemented. So, now that I've given myself a cyber pat-on-the-back for predicting the trend, I'd like to move along to an interesting little "semi-gamified" social networking tool.

It's called Klout and it, with your blessing, accesses your varying social networking sites to form an analysis of your importance, prestige, style and how much of an effect you have on what your fellow networked users use. Giving you interesting titles and achievements as it does so!

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Augmented reality technology has made life much easier for individuals in various sectors in the professional world. This technology combines virtual reality objects with real life objects and makes these two fundamentally different objects interact naturally in a space. Sectors such as the medical, entertainment, military training, engineering, robotics and telerobotics are all making use of augmented reality technology.

Well moms and dads, you can rest easy tonight. Facebook has announced that they will commence scanning for child pornography and images of missing children. They will use photo “fingerprint” technology to search for pictures that match up with the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.