19. The Most Important Relationship You Have In Regards To Social Media is….your grandkid! Most older adults have been introduced to social networking by their children.
23. Negative Effects on United from Social Media Over 8.5 million views Stock prices dip 10% resulting in $180 million Appeared on ABC’s The View Time Magazine’s Top Viral Video’s of 2009 2 more videos to be produced As of 5/29/10
32. What is Twitter Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters.
41. Most Famous Blogs From to Tom Cruise ranting about Scientology to footage from the Burmese uprising, blogging has never been bigger. It can help elect presidents and take down countries.
56. What are apps? The term has been used as shorthand for "application“. However, it became newly popular for mobile applications in smartphones and tablets.
57. Ibooks- Apple’s answer to the Amazon Kindle, iBooks turns the iPad into an electronic book reader with 60,000 books at launch to choose from (the app is free, the e-books are not). Although the Kindle has many more titles (450,000), iBooks lets you flip through virtual pages with your fingers on a color screen.
58. Crosswords (US$9.99) Some seniors love doing the daily crossword puzzle in their local newspaper. But why do just one crossword puzzle a day when you can download a bunch from newspapers around the world? Puzzles are available from a varied group of sources from the Wall Street Journal, King Features Crosswords and the New York Times (subscription required) to the Onion A.V. Club crossword.
59. WebMD for iPad(Free) -- The free WebMD app is a wealth of information for the health-concerned (or obsessed), with a symptom checker, a directory of medical conditions, a complete list of drugs and treatments (including side effects, precautions and interactions with other drugs), First Aid information for a variety of conditions, and complete listings of hospitals, physicians, and pharmacies.
60. Epicurious (free) digital cookbook which allows you to access 27,000 recipes from both Gourmet and Bon Appetit. You can browse recipe collections, search via keyword, and filter your searches by what’s in your fridge, seasonalfoods, holidays and more. You can add any recipe to your favorites box to save it as well as email recipes to yourself and others.
within four days of the song going online, the gathering thunderclouds of bad PR caused United Airlines' stock price to suffer a mid-flight stall, and it plunged by 10 per cent, costing shareholders $180 million. Which, incidentally, would have bought Carroll more than 51,000 replacement guitars."