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Miami New Times Partnering with Foursquare, Badge Included

Are you a fan our Best of Miami issue, right? Of course you are! You're still holding on to last year's issue crossing off the places you've visit and are eagerly awaiting until June comes along for a new set of restaurants, nightclubs, and shops to hit up. You've even gone so far as to download the ... More >>

Michelle Obama Accidentally Endorsed by Miami-Dade's Twitter Account

Those of us with access to professional organization's Twitter accounts live in fear that we'll accidentally send a Tweet out meant for our own personal followers. I for one wouldn't want the entirety of @MiamiNewTimes' followers to know that I had a dream that Diplo was dating my mother. Oh, wait, ... More >>

Marlins Facebook Account Hacked with Promise of "Free Pit Bull" Night

Earlier today, someone hacked into the Facebook accounts of several Major League Baseball teams and the Marlins were not spared. For a brief moment, the Marlins Facebook page promised the first 10,000 fans in attendance at the next game that they'd receive a free "fighting pit bull."

Miami-Dade Police Watched Occupy Miami's Facebook Page for Months

Miami-Dade Police Watched Occupy Miami's Facebook Page For Months Around Eviction

The email went out to a group of Miami-Dade cops February 22, just a couple of weeks after they'd busted up Occupy Miami's downtown encampment. The subject line was in ominous military-speak: "Occupy Miami: Situational Awareness." Inside, an MDPD Homeland Security detective named Maritza Aschenbrenn ... More >>

Cocaine Cowboys Creator Gets Called "Tweeting Twit" by Crotchety, Out-Of-Touch Columnist

It's as if Miami Herald columnist Fabiola Santiago read her own paper's story on a defense attorney trying to get a new trial for his client because a juror, Cocaine Cowboys director Billy Corben, mused about the mundane details of jury duty on Twitter and then muttered to herself, "Wow, what a twee ... More >>

Untappd App: Social Networking for Hops Heads

For the beer lover who shuns Facebook but feels the need to connect with his or her kind, there is a solution: Untappd app for mobile devices. It's like sharing a virtual pint with your friends. The app for iOS and Android devices connects beer fiends worldwide, allowing users to share and post ... More >>

Joaquin Serrapio Wants to Apologize to Obama For Threatening to Kill Him

Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr., the Miami 20-year-old who was arrested after making Facebook and Twitter posts threatening to kill President Obama, wants to say he's sorry. Serrapio appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded not guilty.

Facebook and Twitter Icons Make You Less Likely to Buy Embarrassing Products Online, UM Study Finds

​Online shopping was a boon to buyers who sometimes felt a little embarrassment when buying certain products. The web's anonymity may have made them feel like no one could judge them for, say, buying an industrial-sized vat of KY Jelly. But the mere presence of social media logos like Twitter and ... More >>

Forget Facebook: Twitter is for minorities

Forget Facebook: Minorities Prefer Twitter

​Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Twitter is the social media network preferred by minorities.Everybody is talking about Facebook's forthcomin ... More >>

Latin Burger Food Truck Celebrates Second Anniversary

Courtesy of Jim HeinsJim Heins and Ingrid Hoffman smile for the camera at Latin Burger's first meal service.​On November 9, 2009, Latin Burger and Taco tweeted: "We're here", and rolled onto Miami streets. The food truck scene in Miami was new, and people were intrigued by this pink and black truc ... More >>

The Rolling Stove: Lost and Found

​On Saturday afternoon, we received the following message in our Facebook feed from food truck The Rolling Stove's fan page: "This is not a joke!!! The roilling stove was stolen today! If anyone has seen it please let me know"When the flame-wrapped food truck didn't report for duty at the Semi ... More >>

First Twitter-Themed Cruise to Set Sail from Miami in November

Hopefully there won't be many Fail Wale sightings. ​A Dutch airline had already booked up an entire flight to Miami using Twitter, so it was only a matter of time until a cruise ship company tries the same. This November, Norwegian Cruise Lines will set sail with what they're claiming is the world ... More >>

Highlights From the Comments Section: Civil Political Discourse Edition

SOMEBODY SAID SOMETHING I DON'T AGREE WITH LET'S KILL HIMWe didn't mean to open quite so many cans of worms with posts about Florida Rep. Allen West and the furious email he sent to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz. The blog posts stayed away from his politics, stayed away from her politics and simply s ... More >>

Awesome Pictures of the Last Shuttle Launch Taken From Airplane

via Twitter user ChadGraffSTS135's exhaust trail emerges from a cloud somewhere over Florida Friday.​To those of you who thought that picture on the front of the St. Pete Times in May was a once-in-a-lifetime shot, well, we have another couple of them. We don't use the word awesome very often. Thi ... More >>

Miami Lakes councilman used Facebook to skirt Sunshine Laws, resident says

Did Two Miami Lakes Councilmen Violate The Sunshine Law Via Facebook?

Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Hernandez​Like any social-media-savvy politician, Miami Lakes Councilman Nelson Hernandez uses Facebook to correspond with his constituents. "This is the 21st Century," Hernandez says. "Why wouldn't I use a great communication tool to get my message across?"But a town ... More >>

Latin Burger Tops in Twitter Followers, GastroPod #2, Fish Box #3

Jefe's owner Jack Garabedian tweets to attract customers.Food truck owners in Miami are an entrepreneurial breed. These men and women don't really have a typical profile. Some are chefs looking to start their own kitchen. Others are restaurant owners looking to start a supplemental mobile oper ... More >>

Rick Scott Is Embarrassed by Using Email

​Your grandma probably has an email address, even if it is only to forward you weird chain letters. Everyone uses email these days. Everyone but Rick Scott, apparently. The man has asked constituents not to email him because he gets "embarrassed" by the form of communication. For a governor w ... More >>

Jacksonville Mom Kills Baby for Interrupting Farmville

​In a Jacksonville courthouse yesterday, Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the death of her 3-month-old son, Dylan Lee Edmondson. Her chilling motive: The boy was annoying Tobias while she was trying to play the highly addictive Facebook game Farmville. ... More >>

Florida Man Accused of Bigamy on Facebook

John and Amanda France​Facebook -- and social media in general -- have been blamed for many relationships faltering. New technology has made it easy to catch someone cheating if the person they're with uploads photos, updates a status, or "checks in" on Foursquare. But we never thought we'd hear t ... More >>

South Florida Woman Takes to Social Media to... Get Dates?

​Whether or not we'd like to admit it, we've all been there. Moving to new cities and jumping head first into the dating pool isn't easy. But we're guessing the real trick is standing out. Cue SeeClaudiaDate.com. Claudia, a native Texan and recent New York transplant, spent the last year in South ... More >>

Win Tickets to Rakim & Ken-Y's Social Media Party -- And Have a Laugh, On Us

​Remember when we told you about that social media scavenger hunt you'd have to go on to get tickets to a social media fiesta with booze provided by @SmirnoffMiami, music by @RkmyKeny, and everything live-tweeted by your Twitter jockey, @ManuGabaldon? Well, we have an even easier way for ... More >>

A Social Media Scavenger Hunt in Miami Rewards Winners With Free Booze and Live Music

​Rarely does a social media addiction pay off in a big way. We tweet our favorite celebs and hope for a reply, "like" products and cross our fingers for some freebies, and mention every move we make via Foursquare, hoping that special someone will "follow" us there. But we hardly ever get free boo ... More >>

Social Media Day in Miami Had the Largest Turnout in the Southeast

​As evidenced by the video below, Wednesday night's first ever "Social Media Day" was a big success in Miami. It was an epic celebration of everything Social Media, and the Miami festivities were the biggest in the southeast -- even bigger than LA's. Miamians have once again proven their digital p ... More >>

Social Media Addiction Now Akin to Drug and Alcohol Addictions? We Don't Think So

​@Everyone I think I'm a social media addict. Can't stop clicking every link. #ISpeakIn140characters #HaveAProblem #NeedHelp. RT! Seems I'm not the only one to transition from everyday Facebooker (my gateway drug) to Twitter. Finding out about news and events before they've reached the mainstream ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Boat Show Sails Into Social Media

​The Super Bowl has come and gone, but one local tradition is still going strong. The 69th annual Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail Miami will have boating, fishing, and water sports enthusiasts in a frenzy this weekend. The National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), whic ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Porn and Fuzzy Stats on Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau Website

Screen shot from GMCVB community forum.This picture is tame. There were way more tits, ass, vajayjay, and blowjobs on the GMCVB forum than you'd ever find on Collins Avenue.​Gus Moore, founder and owner of Miami Beach 411, a decade-old website with one of the city's oldest and most active online c ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Burger Beast Eats Up Social Media

Sef Gonzalez (left) clowns around with fellow burger aficionado, Carlos Miller.​Miamian Sef Gonzalez, AKA Burger Beast, might not be the burger "king," but he has definitely turned his love of burgers into a growing social media empire. In a span of 15 months, thanks to his clever use of social me ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 2010 South Florida Tech Events

Two thousand nine is history, so it's time to look forward to a busy year of conferences and events. Here are a few to consider:Social Media Conference, a business event for the social media industry, comes to the Miami Beach Convention Center January 27-29.BarCamp Miami, a gathering of geeks to sha ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Social Media Year in Review

Via Optical Illusion's Flickr​Rising up from a rather sleepy 2008, 2009 was a banner year for social media in Miami. Heck, social media became so important, the Miami New Times decided to hire a local freelance writer to dish on the scene! Here's an overview:1. ClubsSocial Media Club South Florida ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Using Twitter to Bitch About Airlines

Image via Wikimedia Commons​Yours truly recently dealt with an American Airlines screw up that caused her to miss a trip to Hawaii. So after writing a blog post, starting a thread on a local travel community forum and filling out an official contact form to airline customer relations, all that was ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Social Media Club Holiday Meetup

Miami's own Freddy Stebbins performing in character at John Martin's in Coral Gables​Although the year in social media in Miami has been no laughing matter, the South Florida club decided to end 2009 at John Martin's last night with Freddy Stebbins's comedy show.  But first, there was the usu ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Travel Writer Uses Twitter to Explore Miami

Andrew Nelson (center) surrounded by new Twitter friends at Scotty's Landing.​Andrew Nelson (@andrewnelson) found a new way to explore Miami that didn't involve a glossy brochure or lengthy travel guide. Instead, he crowdsourced his travel plans on Twitter, relying on the advice of locals to plan ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Local Geek Helps the Homeless

Robert Murray, local geek, is inspired to do good.​Robert Murray, a freelance Flash and iPhone developer, is practically a Miami native considering he's lived here since 1990. But it was a recent trip to New York City that inspired him to set up the city's first Social Media for Social Change even ... More >>

Silicon Beach: Recession-Friendly Twitter for Miami

Bargain hunter Teresa Mears at her recession-friendly Twitter account.​Social media that makes life easier is a thing of beauty. Miami on the Cheap (@miamicheap) is just such a thing, making it a snap to find the best deals this side of the swamp. Teresa Mears is the publisher, author, and editor ... More >>

Tallahassee Discovers Twitter, Goes a Little Overboard

I'm not immediately sure how this is useful, but there's a new website for people in Tallahassee to get excited over. It's called the Florida Gaggle, and its main feature is that it aggregates the Twitter feeds from politicians, politicos, and reporters. How exciting! It also aggregates the same fi ... More >>

Pitts Has a Vague Idea About Twitter and He Doesn't Like It

Don't ask Leonard Pitts Jr. Note to Leonard Pitts Jr.: If you want to demonstrate the differences between old-style media and the new, social internet media you might want to understand what you're talking about first before dashing off a 600-plus word column on it. Pitts' Herald column today takes ... More >>

Senate 2010: Who Is Winning The Netroots So Far?

Oh, we know, we know, it's so early in the campaign, but with State Senator and US Senate Candidate Dan Gelber's announcement today that he'll Twitter his way through the 60 day legislative session up in Tallahassee, we decided to role out a feature we've been toying with for a while. So new is it t ... More >>

Rick Sanchez Sets Media Standards for a New Generation

Rick Sanchez's transformation from WSVN's "If it bleeds, it leads" main man to king of media Twitterdom continues to astound and amaze. After Sanchez began his new CNN show complete with your Twitters, it has become de facto for journalists to figure out this whole Twitter thing. Even the Miami Her ... More >>

No, Netroots Campaigns Won't Work for Anyone

After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. ... More >>

South Florida Firm Finds 90,000 Sex Offenders on MySpace

Not every sex offender lives under a bridge, in fact if they're not in jail, many have relatively normal living conditions complete with internet connections and MySpace accounts. Sentinel Tech Holding, a Miami-based firm, specializes in detecting registered sex offenders on social networking sites ... More >>

Oh Good Grief, Another Burger King Stunt

Before we indulge, yet again, in Burger King's cheap and greasy menu of shameless blog-attention-whoring marketing tactics, let's get out our feelings about their cheap and greasy menu of food: their fries taste like salted cardboard, their salad selection is terribly disappointing, and the Quad St ... More >>

So Apparently We Have A Twitter

Do you know how weird it was for me to see @miaminewtimes in a Twitter friend's Twitter update last night? How did I not know that we have a twitter, considering I write about half the stuff that appears in said twitter feed? If you don't know what Twitter is, well, I'm toying around with the idea ... More >>

Sí Se Puede ...Change The Facebook Layout

MySpace Latino Connecting or Segregating?

Beto Cuevas Announced as Special Surprise Guest at Tonight's Myspace Latino "Show Secreto"

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