Future:Media:Change

Location based social network Foursquare counted their 40 millionth checkin according to a tweet from one of their developers.

The Internet has surpassed TV and radio as the most essential medium for Americans, a new study finds, and roughly as many people would choose to live without TV as the Internet if forced to choose. Given the usage metrics reported in the rest of the study, it’s no wonder. Here are highlights of its findings.

Are mobile phones the key to educating rural women? Do you want to read Twitter on a blog? Is Google invading your TV set? Can Twitter predict the future? Do you “Like” Coke on Facebook? Is Glenn Beck an asshole? These answers and more after the jump in the inaugural issue of FMC Wire

Now that the geeky glitz of SWSW is over it’s time to reflect back on what you took away from the conference other than a stack of business cards and a few hangovers.

So when I posted about the great Have a Break video Greenpeace had produced on Wednesday I didn’t foresee how Nestlé would manage to fail on such an epic scale on their social media management.

While his Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams and the rest of the South by Southwest Interactive crowds were bouncing between dueling Foursquare, Twitter, Mashable and Stumble Upon parties last night, Biz Stone was announcing his membership in the UN’s “Social Media Envoy” — through a tweet of course.

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