Tag Archives: social media
NuevoWorld is a social network just for Latinos
March 25, 2013 – 12:25 am
Sofia Vergara isn’t necessarily a name commonly associated with technology, but last week she, along with her business partner Luis Balaguer launched NuevoWorld: a social… more
How Twitter, social media impacts Mexico’s drug war
March 11, 2013 – 10:45 am
Austin, Texas — Twitter, but increasingly Facebook and YouTube, are becoming essential elements to the way ordinary people in Mexico protect themselves from the war… more
Comenta TV bridges gap between TV and social media
March 8, 2013 – 2:26 pm
Austin, Texas — Comenta TV is a startup from Argentina that is working to streamline the full circle between people who watch content on TV… more
Latinos use Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter more than whites
February 14, 2013 – 10:24 pm
A new report from The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project breaks down the demographics of social network users. Interestingly, for all social… more
Latinos head to SXSW Interactive to showcase tech talent
February 6, 2013 – 12:57 am
Latinos at South by Southwest’s Interactive conference are becoming a bigger part of the event this year as the second annual Social Revolución and associated… more
In Mexico, Twitter used by few to inform many
January 27, 2013 – 7:33 pm
A recently published paper by Microsoft employees is taking a close look at Twitter usage during the Mexican drug wars.
The paper, “The New War… more
Where are all the Latino bloggers?
January 15, 2013 – 1:13 am
This post is republished with permission from Latinopia.com.
I live on the Internet, so, sometimes my perspective on things can be a bit warped. How… more
Using the Internet to make books
December 17, 2012 – 1:54 am
By Yago Cura
In 2007, I resigned my high school teaching position in the Bronx and started library school at Queens College. Because my library… more
The real winner of the presidential Election: social media
November 15, 2012 – 9:35 pm
By Gretel A. Perera, Q Communications Group
As the Presidential elections come to a close, many of us are giving a sigh of relief. Now… more
Racist post-election tweets concentrated in the South
November 12, 2012 – 9:20 am
FloatingSheep did an interesting analysis of racist tweets that preceded and followed the presidential election in the U.S. Turns out the tweets were concentrated in… more
