Social media is an integral part of any tech oriented world view. If a company wants to be kept up-to-date with what is happening around the world in relation to their brand, their products, then being able to keep an up-to-the-minute eye on what is begin said all across the social media landscape. Now Robert Scoble is well known for having quite the setup for monitoring everything that is happening on places…

One of the problems with being a digital curator with a very wide range of interests is that you are always finding great stuff to share that doesn’t suit any one particular type of site. For example here at Winextra is all about the really cool, the strange, and the cutting edge stuff that interests geeks and nerds but I find so much more than that during the day that…

While one might question the practicality of this, especially if you are someone like Robert Scoble, you got to admit the idea is pretty cute. You see Uniform, a U.K. company, thinks that you should be rewarded whenever someone follows you on Twitter and what better way that with a nice piece of bubblegum. The idea is that the cuckoo clock toost when someone follows you on Twitter which then…

I’ve never hidden the fact that I have a very low opinion of social media due to the fact that other than a few  people involved in it (you guys know who you are) the whole thing smack so marketing snake-oil salesmanship; which is why I love this Social Media Explained graphic below that was put together by BuzzFeed. Thanks guys.

By now everyone who is paying any attention to the whole Occupy movement will have heard, or seen, the now famous video of Lt. Pike letting loose with a can of pepper spray against a bunch of rowdy protesters who where – well – they were just sitting there. Of course as with all things Internet it hasn’t taken long for the incident to grow a set of legs, or…

Right now Microsoft is putting on a big event in New York City that has to do with Windows Phone and it involves a six-story high interactive Windows Phone, and much to everyone’s surprise it was also the scene of a marriage proposal by Yuriy Rud. It doesn’t get any geekier than that, and lucky for Yuriy she said yes.