Youtube is trying out live streaming today with a few partners. Tony Hawk made an appearance on Young Hollywood with an underwhelming number of veiwers. Google says it is only an initial test. A British army commander will tweet updates about life in the military while serving a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. His name is Lieutenant Colonel Dougie Graham, and he commands the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland — a sizable force of 450 soldier

Facebook has launched Facebook Questions a way for people to ask questions and other users to answer according to their interests. It is very similar to a service called Aardvark (vark.com) that earlier this year was bought by Google. Sprint is paying for a creative campaign where cable TV channel G4 has changed its name to "4g" for the week to promote Sprint's Evo phone and 4g network. Youtube has increased it's video time limit to 15 minutes. Great, even more content to waste time! Amazon came out with a new Kindle today. There goal seems to be to make it faster, cheaper and lighter

Social media seems to always paint the quickest and most extensive picture of any natural disaster wherever it may be. This has proven no different for the flooding situation in Nashville. YouTube and Twitter are two tools that have worked in tandem to bring videos and images of the situation to everyone. Videos of houses floating away and cars submerged on the interstate provide real experiences that are available on demand. Local news outlets just can't compete. Traditional media is cumbersome and your best bet is just to search YouTube. This shows social media's potential for the futu