Sports, have upward of two million pages views daily and represent some of the Internet’s heaviest traffic, they rank far behind traditional media on trust and are the most likely group to be rejected (29 percent) for a press pass vs. traditional media (8 percent). Bloggers affiliated with established media outlets, such as the LA Times Sport blog and EPSN.com, earned less trust than traditional media outlets, but significantly more trust than independent bloggers, who were at the bottom of that scale. Image Credit: Emples Flickr. MORE >>

Simple social apps, from photo sharing to intimate networks, to group texting services are gaining in momentum with the success of TextPlus , GroupMe , Path , Instagram and others. Diving into the trend of more intimate social networking , where you can share with a small group of people instead of broadcasting to an unfiltered list of friends on Facebook and Twitter , Beluga asks you to create "Pods", like groups, of people, and you can send text messages, complete with photos and embedded emoticons, to those in the Pod. Then you can start sharing. As for the name? MORE >>

In the crosshairs of this intersection, the company today is announcing LiveShare 1.2 , a new group sharing photo stream service, and in parallel, the addition of nearly $10 million in series C funding from existing investors, including Silicon Valley legend Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Starting With LiveShare, Creating a Stream and Adding Friends While there are dozens of photo sites and applications out there, I've long felt a big gap has not been met in unifying the ability to support groups and events for shared experiences. The $9.6 MORE >>

Each Thursday, I will post my picks to this blog and to my ESPN group. If so, I invite you to join my ESPN group. social media sports NFL NFL PicksIn exactly one week from today, the most exciting season on TV starts up. No I am not talking Real Housewives or Big Bootied Weddings, but the hard hits of the National Football League. Now as with any season, there will be folks making their weekly predictions based on everything from their gut to uniform colors and cold hard football facts. To come up with my picks, I will assign a point score  based on various social metrics. MORE >>

Some times you even have super groups like Altimeter , crayon and now Powered. It’s a very individualistic sport where great stars like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan are made, but even the greatest stars fail to win championships when teams are built around them. Tags: Sports Zoetica social media Yes, you got it, a new post about individuals seeking the limelight versus teams on the social web. But before I begin, please look at this refreshed blog design thanks to Karen Kitchens and the rest of the team at RAD Campaign. Dream Teams. But it wasn’t about that. MORE >>