Social Listing, a New York City startup launched last week atTech CrunchDisrupt with a location-based mobile application to connect local buyers and sellers. The new app for both iPhone and Android aims to reinvent local classified advertisements by enabling users to sell anything, socially, locally and in realtime from their mobile phone. Whether you want to sell your bike, your girlfriend’s pet rabbit or sublet your apartment, Social Listing makes it instant and easy to do so....

What if the next time you watched an episode ofLaw & Order, the suspect’s guilt wasn’t confirmed by DNA evidence or witness accounts, but through an incriminating Facebook photo? In much the same way that DNA analysis revolutionized forensic science only a few decades ago, social media is changing the ways that police officers serve and protect. Instant Information Sharing Websites like Facebook and Twitter can help law enforcement officials quickly share information with a large audience....

The launch of Google+ has us all asking:can it beat Twitter and Facebookas a tool for journalists? Social media is invaluable when it comes to news gathering, but what I want to know is with all this news curation on the webwhat’s the future for traditional journalism? Breaking the News Over the last few years social media has been the first source for a number of big international news stories. Here are just a few examples…...

It was a pretty typical Sunday night for me. I was sitting around at the computer, talking to some friends and browsing Twitter. The news ofOsama bin Laden’s deathhit me like the proverbial ton of bricks. Jubilation, at first…but then things changed. Not only did memories start to creep in, but I also started talking to more friends around the world. Social media has completely changed my world view. Twitter, Facebook and the like have enabled us to quite literally have friends (and not just in the use of the term as a qualifier for a connection on a website) around the globe and we can connect with them at any given time....

Last week I wrote about the relationship betweenTwitter, journalists, and the mediain reference to the Zane Lowe ‘Twitter storm’ and#interviewsbyhari. This week a whole new storm has broken out and this time social media users are taking on one of the world’s biggest media corporations, Rupert Murdoch’sNews Corporation. The NOTW Phone Hacking Scandal For those of you who might have missed it, there is one story dominating the news in the UK at the moment, a phone-hacking scandal involving the tabloid newspaper theNews of the World(NOTW) owned byNews Corp....