Twitter bots are nothing new, but now sophisticated social bots could help businesses tweet and retweet relevant and interesting information. Such tools could even help promote human-to-human introductions. - Twitter ?bots? are machines that automatically post and retweet comments based on particular keywords and links. Although bots are good at their jobs, theyre notoriously impersonal, and people with any Twitter savvy can quickly spot a machine. But now, researchers have created a more sophisticat...

 Health care organizations, like business in other industries, are using innovative forms of social media to inform and engage users. - In part one of this article, which ran earlier this week, we talked about how health care and social media are a natural fit. Here are more examples of the innovative ways health care organizations are using social media to inform and engage users. No Bitter Pill? Although millions of people are...

 The smartest new startups will be announced this week at the IBM SmartCamp 2012. The three-day event will see entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business leaders gather to pick a winner in the programs competition to help build a Smarter Planet. - The world's smartest startups will be hawking their ideas this week at IBM's SmartCamp 2012 in San Francisco. IBM has major investments in funds sponsored by mainstream venture capitalists, and acquires up to 20 companies per year, but it does not directly invest in startups. Instead, it sponsors ...

 Annotating ebooks--that is sharing notes in the margins with other readers of the same book--is poised to be the next ubiquitous use of social media. - Social media in the form of ubiquitous user-generated product reviews, where people who have bought and used a product previously can alert new buyers to their experiences with the product, are something that in pre-Internet days had to be obtained from a publication like quot;Consumer Reports. qu...

 Health care organizations are using innovative forms of social media to inform and engage users. - Health care and social media are a natural fit. After all, 84 percent of health care professionals polled in one small survey use social media for personal reasons, and 75 percent use it for professional reasons within their institution. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed use social networking fo...

 Unlike the popular image of corporations as unfeeling centers of greed that exploit workers to enrich their CEOs, leading academic and industry organizations counter that the most successful enterprises are those that enforce strict ethical principles. - Corporate business ethics might sound like a contradiction in terms to the quot;Occupy Wall Street quot; mavens, but the Business Ethics Alliance maintains that abuses are an aberration and that in reality corporate success in integrally tied to good ethics practices. This week the Business Ethics...

 The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, was the funeral marking the end of the TV remote as we know it. - Couch potatoes of the world knew this day would eventually come: The TV remote control we have known and loved has outlived its usefulness and needs to be put out to pasture. At least thats the impression you get considering recent news. In a way, the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, ...

 "If you can't beat them, join them" is the mantra at MIT, where a massive multiplayer online game is slated to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). - A $3 million grant from the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is funding MIT's first massively multiplayer online game--a three-year effort with the goal of attracting 10,000 students whose avatars interact during the game. Gaming is usually a distraction from education, soaking up hours of a stu...

 At CES 2012, companies will be unveiling all kinds of innovations from the bizarre to the brilliant. One of our favorites is a new video system that converts any image to 3D. - This week, representatives from companies around the world have gathered at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to share ideas and innovations. This years show promises to be a coming-out party for the latest products and tools. One creation were looking most forward to is no-...