So, what ARE the latest social media trends right now? Let’s allow Mashable to dish. For the full article, click here.
1. Social Scanning: Smartphone owners have the world at their fingertips. As grandiose as that may sound, advances in mobile barcode scanning technology have given rise to applications that allow for comparison shopping, QR code place checkins and ultimately a social experience around product barcodes.
What this means is that at any given moment, any smartphone owner can pull out their device, fire up a barcode scanning application, scan a code and complete activities or gain access to a wealth of immediately relevant information. Really, what we’re seeing is the convergence of social media and barcode scanning to create “social scanning.”
These scans aren’t inherently social in nature, but because they can double as verifiable place checkins, they can also possess the social properties of a checkin: location-sharing with friends on the same service or via social network distribution.


Ok, ok, I realize that this post may not have the ideal level of relevancy we usually provide, but as it is the first day back after a three day weekend, I’ll ask for a little empathy here.
So, apparently Facebook users are ticked off. A lot. So much, in fact, they’ve done everything but declare a national holiday. What they have done, however, is make May 31, 2010 Quit Facebook Day, complete with 
Google, Intel and Sony are collaborating on a new platform currently called “Google TV”. This would likely lead to the development of set-top boxes and integrated hardware in future consumer screens to utilize the platform. Content focus would be to merge social applications, digital television, and local digital files. Additionally, the current plan is to base the platform on the Android operating system, allowing developers to quickly produce another set of open source applications for users of Google TV.





